So far...

Today was a very productive day! I was able to send home consent letters with students and will keep my fingers crossed that I get all of them back. Initially, I had identified 23 students that would make up my focal group, representing struggling readers as a whole. At this point, I have had several students move in and out of our school and our district. The transfers have reduced my focal group to 20 students. Getting all of the letters returned is a long shot, but we will see. My students seemed to be excited to be a part of research, since most of them have been working on their own research projects in the classroom. I also had to have a letter of consent translated by the ESL teacher in order to send the letter home in the parents native language.
I was also able to organize the baseline data that was gathered from middle of the year DIBELS benchmarks during the week of January 7th. I will add middle of the year MAP scores to the data sheet as part of the existing records. Also, pseudonyms have been applied to names of the students. Any student that does not return a consent form will simply be removed from the data sheet. All assessments would have occurred regardless of the research project as part of participation in the RTI program, so consent was not necessary at this point. Any student that does not return a consent form will simply be removed from the data sheet.
The work is just beginning!

Baseline data can be found below...

Baseline data

Names (All names are pseudonyms)	WC	Retell	Comp score
Caleb	19	0	0/8
Tyler	18	9	6/8
Liz	26	10	5/8
Kate	19	14	6/8
Sarah	44	8	1/8
Grace	11	7	0/8
Brooke	10	3	5/8
Ryan	5	0	0/8
Katelynn	16	4	1/8
Jon	29	11	2/8
Gabby	55	15	2/8
Brittany	31	4	1/8
Eric	73	29	2/8
Brad	63	22	2/8
Drake	46	25	7/8
Kelly	74	26	3/8
Jake	87	52	4/8
Hayden	69	44	7/8
Bobby	87	48	3/8
Mike	40	14	6/8

Blue indicates Fluent/ no comp (Comp < 50%, WC > BM)

Red indicates Not fluent/ no comp (Comp < 50%, WC < BM)

Black indicates Not fluent/ comprehends (Comp > 50%, WC < BM)