The end is near....

Today is the beginning of the window for end of year TPRI testing. The teachers are given two weeks to assess their students and to see if there has been any growth in the skills that the TPRI assesses. I am interested to see the results. I'm not sure that all of the teachers followed the phonological awareness activities exactly as they were supposed to be doing them. So I'm not sure how accurate the results will be. However, looking back over this action research project, I do know that several things have been accomplished. More of the teachers now have an understanding of phonological awareness. Our kindergarten teachers were calling the knowledge of the sound the letter makes phonological awareness before this research project. I also know that the teachers have been provided with more activities for teaching phonological awareness. My hope is that this year will show the teachers the importance of teaching these important basic skills to our students and that the teachers will begin to put these activities into their lesson plans in the future instead of rushing through them because there is no worksheet to go with them. I will update my blog again once I have my results!