Gretchen Ellwood

EDC 291A

M6A2

Student Survey

Name: ________________________________

1. Do you enjoy reading?

YES J NO L

2. Is your weekly reading page too easy?

YES J NO L

3. Is your weekly reading page too hard?

YES J NO L

4. Do you read with a grown-up?

YES J NO L
 5. Do you read with a sibling?

YES J NO L

6. Do you read by yourself?

YES J NO L

7. Do you use your finger to help you read?

YES J NO L

8. Do you have lots of books in your home?

YES J NO L

9. Do you think you are a good reader?

YES J NO L

10. What is your favorite book?

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 Reflection

At the beginning of the school year, I derived knowledge about the level each of my

students were reading at based on informal and formal observations. This allowed me to

determine how I would appropriately group my students for guided reading centers, but also how

to challenge and support each reader individually in the classroom. In October, I began sending

home a fluency page at the beginning of each week that matched each students reading

performance level. Their job was to read the passage every night to help develop their reading

fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension alike. However, a lot of time has passed since then.

I thought that for my survey with the children, I would find out how they were feeling

about the reading passages I was sending home. Were they too easy? Were they too hard? Was

what I assigned to them just the right amount of challenge? What does reading look like and feel

like to each of them? Do they enjoy reading? Does somebody read with them or to them at

home? Do they have access to books at their houses? These are all important things for me to

know as a teacher.

After giving the survey to my students and gathering the data I collected, I felt better

prepared to continue supporting each of my students as readers. Not only did I find that some

students would enjoy a bigger challenge, for which I plan to provide, I also discovered that some

students are not being supported properly at home with their reading fluency page. I plan to

address this as best I can. I enjoyed getting the children’s feedback on this subject in particular.

My goal for all of my first graders is that they would leave first grade LOVING school; and

reading is a part of that. I want to instill in each of them a love for reading. It is my job to come

around each of them individually to create as positive an introduction to literature and language

as I can.