Proposition+4

**// Proposition 4: Teachers Think Systematically about Their Practice and Learn from Experience //**
**Artifact: Action Research Project on Visualization​** One of the culminating assignments for my MSEd required us to take a comprehensive look at an issue that affected our current teaching and complete a research study around this issue.I chose to focus my research on my second grade students’ ability to visualize when reading and how their ability or inability impacted their retelling and comprehension. I observed that although students’ word accuracy was where it should be many were struggling with both retelling and comprehension I saw this as a perfect opportunity to examine my teaching practices.Through this process I was able to reflect on my teaching practices, closely examine the role that visualization plays on retelling and comprehension, and create opportunities for students to create visualizations of their readings. My action research project was incredibly beneficial to my teaching and student learning.I was able to take students who were unable to identify what visualization was to eventually act out what they visualized when they read.Students began by first incorporating details into a sentence and then progressed to wordless picture books, short poems, and eventually to visualizing short stories. I collected research data to create a baseline and throughout my research to guide my instruction. Data I collected was compiled and summative assessments were administered and analyzed.All indicating that visualization played a positive role in student retelling and comprehension.
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