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During the interest inventory information was gathered about Nadia’s personality, what she likes to do, and what her favorite things are. While responding to some of the questions Nadia would pause to think about what she was going to say and use the term “um” and “stuff” a lot. Nadia’s favorite T.V. shows are Girl Meets World and Austin and Ally. She likes these shows because they exhibit friendship and the importance of being honest with them.) Nadia shows an interest in math and reading because they are fun and she thinks, “they help you become better at other things.” She wants to become a hiphop dancer when she is older and she loves dancing to the song Cold Water. She said, “My mom said go outside and play, but when I’m outside I get bored so I just dance.” Nadia shows that she is an artistic kind of person because she loves to draw and dance. Sometimes she likes to read for fun, but realistic fiction and scary are the kinds of books she is interested in. There are too many pictures in comic books and they are all about super heros, that’s what she doesn’t like them. Her favorite movie is Bad Hair Day because “it’s funny to see them run around and get ready for prom.” Overall, …show more content…
She had 19 automatic and 1 identified, so she recieved 100%. For both 4th and 5th grade Nadia got 15/20 which was Instructional. For 4th grade she received 13 automatic and 2 identified. The 5th grade list she got 11 automatic and 4 identified. Finally she received a Frustration level for 6th grade and got 8/20 automatic correct. On the words she missed Nadia would only look at the beginning of the words and not the end. For example she said troubled for the word terribly. For the 6th grade word list if Nadia new the word she responded automatic, if she didn’t she would try to sound out the words or say it was something else. For example she said position when it was supposed to be

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