Hello, My name is Shirley Jordan and this is my action research, a requirement for the EMDT master’s program at Full Sail University.

The purpose of my action research is to find ways in which low achieving and middle achieving students can build reading comprehension skills to increase math test scores.

At the beginning of the school years I looked at the test data of students entering fifth grade. I noticed that the scores were very low in problem solving.

In this research I will try and demonstrate how using reading comprehension skills can increase math scores. This will also help me as a teacher with some of the tools and strategies I use in math for teaching math problems solving.