Tell Me What You Think Greek

Assessing Motivation: When I wanted to find out what kind of topics Izzy would be interested in, I conducted the “Tell Me What You Like” assessment from Assessment for Reading Instruction by McKenna and Stahl (2015. Through this, I learned that Izzy is interested in animals, magic, jokes, camping, drawing/painting, horses, detectives, love, famous scientists, food, cooking, etc. Izzy’s variety of interests helps give me many options when choosing what kinds of books to use in my study. In using this information, Izzy will be more likely to feel motivated. To find out which settings Izzy likes to read in, I conducted the “Elementary Reading Attitude Survey”, by McKenna and Stahl (2015). I learned that Izzy does not like to read in loud settings as it makes it hard …show more content…
Izzy had a great imagination and could accurately answer each question asked. Additionally, I feel that I did a great job deciding on which book to use. This is because Izzy was engaged and ready to read the text. I feel that the only thing I did poorly was skip the “Before Reading” portion of my lesson, which I did unintentionally. Two things that I would change are adding in the questions that I improvised during the read aloud and avoid asking the questions that put us off task. There were moments that I came up with a question that I did not originally have in my lesson plan. For the most part, this was okay and I would add the questions to the lesson if used in the future. There were also a few questions that threw us off track. For example, “have you ever plugged your nose while eating a food you did not like?” While this question was related to the text, it ended up sending Izzy on a tangent about food that she did not like. In the future, I would make more of an effort to ask only questions about the text, and save personal questions that are related to the text for a time set aside either before or after conducting the read