Elimination of writing difficulties at primary school:Action research

The aim of this resesarch is to eliminate the problem of students who have writing difficulties at primary school level by using some methods and techniques. Action research pattern was used in the study. During the research, the data was collected by means of interview technique, work sheets and multidimensional legibility scale. In the research, the second grades students from whom study at a village primary school of Muş province and also have writing difficulties have been benefited. As a result of determination in the class, a participant group was formed with 6 students who had writing difficulties in the classroom. The activities that the researcher used in the literacy process, the classroom teachers working in different provinces and the work sheets supported by the expert opinion were determined. The total duration of study conducted with participants was 53 periods. It was emphasized the teaching of lettering in writing skill in the first 4 weeks of practice. In the next 4 weeks of process the lettering instruction was completed and the sentence writing started. Teaching of sentence writing lasted nearly 4 weeks and after the completion of it, the teaching of text writing began. The process of teaching of text writing was completed about in 5 weeks. In all these tutorials the expressions has been enriched by using different methods and techniques. The work sheet used for determining at the beginning of the process was applied again after 21 days from the last work sheet in order to examine whether or not the applied tutorials had the level of recall. Data was obtained and evaluated using the multidimensional legibility scale. All work sheets applied throughout the process were stored by the researcher. After each dimension of writing skills, the pre- and post-application studies of each participant were examined. As a result of this detailed examination, it was concluded that there was a significant increase in the issue of participants' writing difficulties. Also when the scores obtained according to the multidimensional legibility scale in the worksheets designating permanence applied to participants were compared with the scores obtained in the multidimensional legibility scale in the worksheets before practice, a significant increase was observed. As a result, the methods, techniques and practices applied during the research have contributed positively to the participants' writing difficulties.