Introduction
The researcher teaches Special Education Reading at the high school level. Some students in the researcher’s classroom receive special education services and are English Language Learners (ELL). Students whose first language is English and students whose second language is English bother need support in learning content language that is used in the classroom to aid with reading, discussion, and assignments (Sibold, 2011). The researcher works with students who are cognitively impaired. Most of the students in the researcher’s classroom primarily have learning disabilities related to reading. The researcher is interested in looking at weekly vocabulary instruction and how it correlates with increasing comprehension and assessment …show more content…
To conduct research students will be given a pre-test of thirty vocabulary words, weekly ten word vocabulary list, research based activities to work with their words, daily vocabulary quiz, weekly ten word vocabulary tests, and a thirty word post-test. This will cycle every four weeks. On the fourth week students will start with a new pre-test followed by a ten word vocabulary list, etc.
Assessment of student growth will ultimately be assessed by using a district assessment entitled MAPS. MAPS are an assessment which the researcher’s district administers to students in the fall and spring of each school year. The researcher is a proctor for this assessment.
Significance of the Study
In order for students to both exit the researcher’s class and drop their reading goal students will need to have a certain score on district assessments. For students to exit Literacy Skills they need to score 210 on their MAPS test. In order for students to drop their reading goa monitoring students need to score 80% on their comprehension assessment l in three out of four data points in their IEP progress. Another data point that is used for students to either leave Literacy Skills or drop their reading goal students need to be at least on level with their same grade peers on Iowa …show more content…
Having more vocabulary students will be able to improve their comprehension because they are not struggling as much with sounding out words. Reading practice and vocabulary instruction will produce better results than working on reading just to increase vocabulary (Chandler, 2008).
Definition of Terms
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) is a framework for teachers to present content to second language learners through scaffolding strategies and techniques. SIOP is a lesson planning and delivery approach of instruction which is grouped into eight component; Lesson Preparation, Building Background, Comprehensible Input, Strategies, Interaction, Practice and Application, Lesson Delivery, and Review and Assessment (Kareva, 2013).
Limitations (of the study)
Due to the small sample available for the study, results may not be generalizable beyond the specific population from which the sample was
The researcher teaches Special Education Reading at the high school level. Some students in the researcher’s classroom receive special education services and are English Language Learners (ELL). Students whose first language is English and students whose second language is English bother need support in learning content language that is used in the classroom to aid with reading, discussion, and assignments (Sibold, 2011). The researcher works with students who are cognitively impaired. Most of the students in the researcher’s classroom primarily have learning disabilities related to reading. The researcher is interested in looking at weekly vocabulary instruction and how it correlates with increasing comprehension and assessment …show more content…
To conduct research students will be given a pre-test of thirty vocabulary words, weekly ten word vocabulary list, research based activities to work with their words, daily vocabulary quiz, weekly ten word vocabulary tests, and a thirty word post-test. This will cycle every four weeks. On the fourth week students will start with a new pre-test followed by a ten word vocabulary list, etc.
Assessment of student growth will ultimately be assessed by using a district assessment entitled MAPS. MAPS are an assessment which the researcher’s district administers to students in the fall and spring of each school year. The researcher is a proctor for this assessment.
Significance of the Study
In order for students to both exit the researcher’s class and drop their reading goal students will need to have a certain score on district assessments. For students to exit Literacy Skills they need to score 210 on their MAPS test. In order for students to drop their reading goa monitoring students need to score 80% on their comprehension assessment l in three out of four data points in their IEP progress. Another data point that is used for students to either leave Literacy Skills or drop their reading goal students need to be at least on level with their same grade peers on Iowa …show more content…
Having more vocabulary students will be able to improve their comprehension because they are not struggling as much with sounding out words. Reading practice and vocabulary instruction will produce better results than working on reading just to increase vocabulary (Chandler, 2008).
Definition of Terms
Sheltered Instruction Observation Protocol (SIOP) is a framework for teachers to present content to second language learners through scaffolding strategies and techniques. SIOP is a lesson planning and delivery approach of instruction which is grouped into eight component; Lesson Preparation, Building Background, Comprehensible Input, Strategies, Interaction, Practice and Application, Lesson Delivery, and Review and Assessment (Kareva, 2013).
Limitations (of the study)
Due to the small sample available for the study, results may not be generalizable beyond the specific population from which the sample was