Draft3

The Slightly Below Grade Level Students (n=23)

Nineteen (83%) of these students had declined in their academic performance, based on their averages in English. Four (17%) had improved their averages in the three weeks prior to the intervention. Only four were in a decline after three weeks of the intervention. Five were declining after the second three week recording period.

There was a slight improvement in the 100% participation in journal writing, but seven (30%) of the students exhibited a decrease in the number of journal entries in the first three-week period. Ten increased. Thirteen students (57%) decreased journal participation during the second three-week period. Seven inreased.

Eight students had a decrease in newspaper assignments when comparing the three-week and six-week recordings, but nine showed an increase.

In the Teacher's Journal, it was noted that students did not know how to outline. Also, students were more likely to copy the article word for word rather than to use their own words. Early in the intervention, students would copy from the beginning of the article until they filled a page of notebook paper, but later, after being told that copying and summarizing were not the same, they began to "skip around," copying different sentences within the article.

Three of these students never completed a newspaper assignment during the intervention.

The Below Grade Level Students (n=24)

Eighteen (75%) of these students had declined in their academic performance, based on their academic averages. Six (25%) had increased their academic averages in the three weeks prior to the intervention.

There was a decrease in the 100% participation in journal writing. Originally, four students had written every journal entry, but after three weeks of the intervention, only one student completed all of the assignments. A total of ten students showed a decline in journal writing during the first three weeks. Seventeen showed a decline in the second three weeks.

Sixteen of the participants completed fewer newspaper assignments in the second three-week recording period.

Five of these students never completed a newspaper assignment during the intervention.

Those students (10 or 13.9%) who never participated in the intervention. Their averages are reflected in the changed averages, but their participation in the intervention remained at zero, so they are not reflected in the increase/decrease information. Likewise, those with consistently 100% participation are not reflected in the increase/decrease information on journals or newspapers, but they are represented in the changes of academic average.