Test Data

1. My PDS school is East Park Elementary, while looking at the test score data in reading I noticed that the students scores were 21.77% mastery, 7.55% above mastery, 3.55% are at a distinguished level in reading.
2. After looking at the scores I noticed that nearly 40% of the students stuggle with reading comprehension.

3. The instructional intervention that I might use is Think Alouds.

4. In the article "Comprehension of Exposity Text: Insights Gained from Think-Aloud Data" the study found that "...children who produced accurate paraphrases were more likely to perform better on measures of comprehension than children who produced inaccurate paraphrases. While working memory performance was not directly related to the number of comprehension questions answered correctly or to recall performance, it was moderately associated (r ≥ .30) with paraphrase accuracy. Thus, there was a trend for higher verbal working memory scores to be associated with higher paraphrase accuracy and comprehension performance."
The article " Perspective Effects on Expositorys Text Comprehension: Evidentce from Think-Aloud Protocols, Eyetracking, and Recall" The results showed that in addition to increasing the fixation time and recall for relevant in comparison to irrelevant text information, a reading perspective guides readers to use slightly different comprehension processes for relevant text information, as shown by think-aloud protocols.

5. Does using teacher think alouds improve reader comprehension?

6. informal assessment- group questions/answer
formative-story structure questions