1. What is the title of the project? TNLI: Action Research: Curriculum Implementation: Research Question/Definition of Problem
2. What is the Question? What happens to third graders' writing when they participate in a reading and letter writing program?
4. What strategy is being used to address? The nonlinguistic strategy is being addressed.
5. What evidence is presented that the strategy will work? Once the letter writing took place, fewer errors started occurring.
6. How will data be collected to determine if the strategy will work? The students participated in a pen pal letter writing project. The teacher collected the student’s letters, before sending them out, and analyzed how the writing had changed since the start of the process.
7. How was the data analyzed? During the assessment process, the teacher recognized several trends that were occurring amongst students. She also analyzed things through book discussions, paying close attention to how the students created their own dialogue.
8. What were the results? That all randomly selected students demonstrated growth in the letter writing process. Their occurrence of errors decreased and their level of writing increased. However, the majority of them continued to struggle with vocabulary and mechanics
9. How do the results inform teacher practice? The results show that the effort put forth in this study was truly worth it. Successful results occurred when the students made fewer errors on their letters. This study can guide a teacher in a reading and writing curriculum to focus on letter writing, or something interesting to the students, that will excite them and make the class more eager to learn.
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