CONSIDERACIONES SOBRE LOS RESULTADOS TRAS EL TRATAMIENTO QUIRÚRGICO

literacy learners, they may struggle to find motivation. When students see literacy learning as something they have to do, that may encourage them to work hard at it.

Students who struggle may lack the motivation to do good work and to learn how to read and write. The motivation they need may simply come from knowing their work is necessary and something they need to accomplish in school. These students have a great sense of responsibility for their literacy learning.

Limitations

There were several limitations to my study. I conducted my study during five weeks. Given more time, I could have had more data, and might have been able to use this data to measure student improvement. I think that being able to get more data could help me see more strategies to help my students. Also, I had a limited number of participants. Out of my class of 17 students, 9 of them had parents who consented for their participation in my research. I feel like the more students involved the better, so a higher number would have been more useful to me. I had limited time for

observations, because I was the teacher and the researcher at the same time. It was difficult to find the time to write down information for my observations while at the same time teaching lessons. All of these limitations were not preventable in this case, but I do feel like if I were to do it again I would try to combat some of these for my research.

Future Research

There are many things I could do if I were to research this topic in more detail. I think that getting parent input would be a tremendous benefit, to see what they think about their children’s literacy process. Parents are an important asset to have when helping emergent literacy learners to succeed in school. I feel like if I had more parent input, it would have given me more insight into my students. Having more participants in my study would also help benefit my research because I would be able to see across a wider range of learning abilities.

There are three kindergarten classes in my school, so having access to research other classes within the same grade level would be a great way to see more learning levels. On the same level, asking other kindergarten teachers their opinions by doing a questionnaire would also be a great way to find out what other students are doing who are at the same age group as my participants.

Overall Significance

This study is significant to the area of literacy, more specifically struggling readers and writers. Being able to help educators come up with viable solutions in the form of specific strategies is of utmost importance. Emergent literacy learners need to acquire a strong base of knowledge so future learning can happen later on in school. These struggling learners need to have as much help as possible, so they can bridge the achievement gap between themselves and their peers. Their future learning depends on having knowledgeable educators who can help them learn and achieve great things in literacy. By researching this topic and by being able to have access to my own class, I was able to see them in a closer light and was able to see how to help not only the struggling learners, but all of my students. It has put my teaching in a whole new light, and I really think about how I can help my students, based on what I learned during this qualitative research case study. Moving forward, I will be looking at these strategies, specifically popular culture print and read- alouds, to help my struggling emergent literacy learners. I feel like I have a really strong portfolio of ideas that I can enact in my classroom easily, in order to help my learners succeed.

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Appendix A

Name _______________________ Date __________

Reading and Writing Survey

1. What kinds of things do you like to read? Why?

2. Who reads with you? When? Where?

3. Do you have any things to read at home? If so, what?

4. How does reading make you feel and why?

5. What kinds of things do you like to write? Why?

6. Who writes with you? When? Where?

7. What do you write at school? Why? Do you like ____? Why?

8. What do you write at home? Why?

Appendix B