road to teaching: action research topic bubble map
I began my action research bubble map with the thought that I might like to research how phonics phones would affect student writing performance. However, the more information that I filled in, the clearer it became that I had other questions regarding the writing process. Working with kindergartners, I notice that they have a very hard time writing independently. They often do not want to write or they write formulaic style sentences that do not reflect true thoughts. If you are unable to communicate your thoughts, you must revert to uninspiring and unchallenging formulaic sentence structure and vocabulary. Reading these are really boring- thus writing them must be really boring too. If children were given tools and strategies to empower them to write their thoughts independently with out relying on the formulaic structure, small list of sight word vocabulary, or the limited environmental print, or a teacher's presence, perhaps they will be inspired to write more frequently. I used the structure of critical query questions (p. 63) posed in the Jenny and Snyder article to help define where my problem statement.
This is a great start, Erin. Now, using your literature review, see if you can narrow your ideas down to one specific strategy you'd like to try with your students.
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