To get all ten instructional sessions in and have time to complete analysis of the post assessments prior to the due date for the project, I had to double up my last two sessions. Most students accepted that they would complete two strategy sheets in one sitting but some required motivation in the form of additional reward time and tangible rewards following the session to keep them engaged. This allowed me to complete the sessions and instruction in on the timeline I posed initially. I feel that this may negatively affect the ability of students to generalize the skills into their journal by decreasing the amount of time between the sessions focusing on different phonetic skills. The focus of the study, however, is movement of students through the writing stages using the strategy so this may not affect the study as much as I assume.
This is one of various modifications to instruction needed by the students to participate effectively in the action research project. This adjustment is a part of Action Research in the classroom due the cyclical nature of the research approach.
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