CL-CUR526_Topic_Description_Assignment (1).doc Text Marking: Improving the Reading Compr

CL-CUR526_Topic_Description_Assignment (1).doc  Text Marking:  Improving the Reading Comprehension Scores   for 6TH Graders   CUR526 Online  Nova Southeastern University  Topic Description Assignment  Text Marking:  Improving the Reading Comprehension Scores   for 6TH Graders   Research Proposal:  The purpose of this study is to determine how implementing text marking strategies impact 6th grade students reading comprehension. Middle School students will be asked to demonstrate and identify key ideas utilizing the text-marking strategies. Observations of those results will determine if any impact is shown on students reading scores.  It is required by the Common Core State Standards that students analyze and evaluate texts beginning from grades 1 to 12. Making sense of a text is a process that involves decoding, predicting, questioning, clarifying and comparatively analyzing what is read. Students do not know how to identity key concepts in reading text(s). This research hopes to ascertain whether or not text-marking strategies improve student-reading comprehension.  Research Question:  How does teaching students to mark the text impact student reading             comprehension of Grade 6 curriculum?  Problem Statement   The problem of the study is that 6th grade students in the researchers instructional settings have low reading comprehension below the national average.   Reading difficulties create educational difficulties in all subject matters, which in turn lead to social and economic disadvantages.  The writer inte