EDUC 606: Journal Entry 5 Prompt: Use the template below to describe the action plan you intend

to implement in your educational setting as well

as the data collection & analysis methods you intend to use to monitor the impact of your action plan.
Puzzlement Statement:
I am puzzled by Marie’s lack of progress in writing and how her home culture and my writing instruction may be impacting her progress. What can
I do to support her writing progress?

Summarize what you have learned from the literature (with citations) and from your informational data collection:

From analyzing Marie’s data, I can see that she has made progress from the beginning of the year. However, she still struggles to write in complete
sentences without support from the teacher. According to Lin (2015), EL students will demonstrate more basic grammatical, spelling and
vocabulary errors in their writing because they did not acquire those skills in the natural way, as native speakers did. They are trying to learn it as
they learn to speak the language. The author feels that they need direct instruction in these basic skills to improve (Lin, 2015). According to
Parlindungan (2017), EL students also need access to literacy in order for their written language to develop. The literacy that they are exposed to
can come in many different forms, not just traditional forms (Parlindungan, 2017). It can come from books or it can be in a digital form, such as
YouTube, online books or other internet usage (Parlindungan, 2017). Yu & Lee (2016) have found that using peer interactions, such as peer editing,
stems from a sociocultural learning perspective and can be a successful way for students to improve their writing skills through collaboration.

Your action:

-Send home books translated in Spanish for Marie to read with her parents and increase her access to literacy
-Send home comprehension questions translated in Spanish for Marie’s parents to ask her after reading with her
-Use peer editing as a way to increase engagement with peer interaction during writing
-Incorporate writing conferences to help support Marie’s progress with one-on-one support
-Provide one-on-one writing intervention with direct instruction to increase Marie’s ability to improve the basic grammar, spelling and vocabulary
skills necessary for writing

Data Collection & Analysis Plans (What data will you need to monitor the action AND to assess the impact of the action?)
(Add or delete rows from the table below as needed; keep in mind triangulation of data- see F & B)
EDUC 606: Journal Entry 5 Prompt: Use the template below to describe the action plan you intend to implement in your educational setting as well
as the data collection & analysis methods you intend to use to monitor the impact of your action plan.
What you want to know
and why
Will reading with her parents
in Spanish improve her literacy sight word
skills?
Will providing comprehension
questions in Spanish increase
her parents’ participation and
in turn, improve Marie’s
reading?
Will introducing peer
interactions in writing
instruction improve writing
engagement and therefore
ability through collaboration?
Will providing a basic writing
skills intervention help Marie
improve her writing abilities?
Data that will Source of the data How AND when you will How will you analyze the data?
provide that collect the data (What will you do to understand
information what it means?)
Writing samples, Teacher Writing sample will be I will review Marie’s sight word
Student collected at the end of the progress to determine if it
assessment intervention period in class. improves her writing ability. The
Sight word assessment will writing samples will be evaluated
take place weekly. using a rubric to determine
whether or not her ability to use
the basic sentence structure
improves.
Parent Survey Parent Parent survey will be sent I will look for an increase in
Teacher home after the intervention parent participation on a weekly
period. basis. Specifically, I will be looking
for her parents to read 3-4 times a
week with her and ask her the
comprehension questions after
each reading session.
Teacher observations Teacher Field notes will be collected I will analyze student behavior
Writing sample Student during each writing session during the peer interactions as
to evaluate Marie’s overall well as, analyzing the writing
engagement during writing sample to determine if there were
sessions. The final writing any improvements in her ability to
sample will be evaluated for use the basic grammar, spelling
improvement in her ability and or vocabulary while writing.
to write in complete
sentences.
Teacher observations Teacher Field notes will be collected The field notes will be analyzed to
Writing Sample Student during the intervention. A determine whether or not Marie
post-intervention writing understands the instruction. The
sample will be collected. writing sample will be analyzed to
see if she was able to apply those
skills to her own writing.
EDUC 606: Journal Entry 5 Prompt: Use the template below to describe the action plan you intend to implement in your educational setting as well
as the data collection & analysis methods you intend to use to monitor the impact of your action plan.
Will holding individual writing Teacher observations Teacher Field notes will be collected A rubric will be used to analyze
conferences with Marie help to Writing samples Student to determine how Marie is the writing sample. The field
improve her writing ability, progressing in her ability to notes will be compared to the
specifically her ability to write write complete sentences. writing sample to see which skills
complete sentences? improved as a result of discussing
them during the conferences.

How will the data above help you understand the puzzlement through the lens of your cultural question?

I will be able to see if Marie’s home culture has an influence on her writing abilities and if making changes to my writing instruction and
implementing more access to literacy, especially at home, will increase her writing abilities.