Action Research 2

1. What is the problem?

2. What is the rational for the project?

3. What strategy will be use to address the problem?

4. What is the question?

5. What evidence is presented that the strategy will work?

6. How will data be collected?

1. The problem in this action research is Rhyme and Word Recognition.

2.  "Learning to recognize rhyme and word families is a critical literacy skill that can help beginning readers develop recognition of phonems and decode new and difficult words."

3.  Simulations and Games

4.  "How can I use a variety of rhyming games to help my students recognize rhyme and word families in text?"

5. The researcher uses the article Integrated Strategies Approach: Making Word Identification Instruction Work for Beginning Readers as a supporting idea of implementing this method. 

6.  The student-teacher will assess the students before implementing the rhyming games.  Then, the assessment will be administered after the project.  This will be over a period of 4-weeks.  Students will participate in small group reading centers on a daily basis.  A checklist will also be used to evaluate student's ability to identify rhyme in pictures, sound, or text.