Thank you for completing this survey. It will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete. Please answer each item as honestly and accurately as possible. Your answers will help us better understand the impact of ReadWorks on classroom instruction; that is, this survey is focused on our impact not your teaching.

We will collect your name but this is only for matching with other survey responses. Any analysis and reports of this survey data will be anonymous and not include names.

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* 1. Your first and last name:

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* 2. Your school email address:

For the next set of items, rate how much each statement is true for you.

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* 3. I feel confident in my understanding of how to teach reading comprehension.

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* 4. I understand how building the following impacts reading comprehension:

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phonological awareness (syllables, phonemes, etc.)
decoding skills (alphabetic principle, spelling-sound correspondences)
sight recognition (of familiar words)
background knowledge (facts, concepts, etc.)
vocabulary (breadth, precision, links, etc.)
understanding of language structures (syntax, semantics, etc.)
verbal reasoning (inference, metaphor, etc.)
literacy knowledge (print concepts, genres, etc.)

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* 5. I understand how to build students’ skills / knowledge in the following areas:

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phonological awareness (syllables, phonemes, etc.)
decoding skills (alphabetic principle, spelling-sound correspondences)
sight recognition (of familiar words)
background knowledge (facts, concepts, etc.)
vocabulary (breadth, precision, links, etc.)
understanding of language structures (syntax, semantics, etc.)
verbal reasoning (inference, metaphor, etc.)
literacy knowledge (print concepts, genres, etc.)
For the next set of items, rate how likely you are to do each action as part of your typical ELA unit and lesson planning next school year.

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* 6. With each ELA unit I teach, I will think about how the content connects to prior units and can build to future units.

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* 7. One of my weekly focus areas for reading instruction will be building students’ word recognition skills.

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* 8. One of my weekly focus areas for reading instruction will be building students’ background knowledge.

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* 9. One of my weekly focus areas for reading instruction will be building students’ vocabulary.

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* 10. One of my weekly focus areas for reading instruction will be building early readers' background knowledge while supporting the development of their word recognition skills.

The next section asks about your experience completing this action research study and aspects of your classroom instruction during the time period that the research occurred. Please note that there are no right or wrong answers; we are simply interested in your perspectives as a participating teacher.

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* 11. During this study, I saw my students’ building knowledge from their Article-A-Day work.

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* 12. During this study, I saw my students’ building vocabulary from their Article-A-Day work.

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* 13. The content knowledge gained in the Article-A-Day routine made my students more engaged while reading the decodable texts.

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* 14. The content knowledge gained in the Article-A-Day routine made my students more successful while reading the decodable texts.

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* 15. During this study, I noticed positive changes to children’s decoding skills, as measured by the standard decoding/phonics assessment I used.

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* 16. During this study, I noticed positive changes to children’s decoding in context (whether or not this was apparent in their assessment data).

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* 17. My students enjoyed the decodable texts.

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* 18. Based on your observations and the data you collected, to what extent do you feel the research addressed the specific problem or challenge you identified? Please explain.

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* 19. What challenges, if any, did you experience in implementing the Article-A-Day + Decodables intervention throughout the study? (Challenges may be at the school-, classroom-, or student-level and may include struggles with doing the intervention every day, with the materials themselves, etc.)

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* 20. In what ways, if any, has this action research influenced your understanding or practices as a teacher?

The following questions are optional and offer an additional opportunity for us to learn from your experience to inform our future research and product development.

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* 21. (Optional) Is there anything else, not captured by the previous questions, that you noticed about your students’ learning from the Article-A-Day and/or decodable texts during this study? If so, please describe.

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* 22. (Optional) If you conduct this action research again next year, is there anything you might do differently?

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* 23. (Optional) What suggestions do you have for ReadWorks about how to improve future action research guides or processes?

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