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Interest Inventory

Literacy Interest Inventories can assist teachers and students in setting goals for reading. This tool can be used to group students with similar interest and help the teacher in designing activities that capture the student’s attention. Simply stated Literacy Interest Inventories assist teachers in meeting the needs of their students while capturing their attention.

The reading interest inventory created by Holly Smucker ask questions that give an insight to what the student likes to read, how much they read, and how they learned to read.  This inventory has a total of 12 questions that identify how much the student like to read at home and what type of books etc., they have if any. I like that it asks the question; “If you know someone is having trouble reading, how would you help that student?” Answering this question lets the teacher see what works best for the student filling out the inventory and should be practiced if the student has reading issues.

 

  • Found on Teachers pay Teacher and developed by Holly Smucker

  • Primarily used as a summative assessment

  • Used primarily in grades K-5

  • Needs approximately 15 minutes to complete

  • Students in 2nd grade and above can complete individually (in a whole class setting)

  • Grade K-1 need teacher assistance and needs to be conducted individually using question and answer techniques by the teacher

The reading interest inventory created by Laura Candler gives the students a chance to tell you if they like reading or not and why. Students are allowed to tell the teacher the topics that they like to read and why they like them. The last page of this survey offers a Likert scale for students that offers five choices and a spot for the student to state whether or not the students has “never done it.” This inventory is great for students in elementary preferable 2nd grade and above. The use of faces or emoticons would allow you to use this survey in earlier grades.

  • Found on Laura Candler.com and developed by Laura Candler

  • Can be used as both a summative and a formative assessmentUsed primarily in grades K-5

  • Needs approximately 15 minutes to complete

  • Students in 2nd grade and above can complete individually (in a whole class setting)

  • Grade K-1 need teacher assistance and needs to be conducted individually using question and answer techniques by the teacher

                                                                                                          References                  

Candler, L. (2015, 08 31). File Cabinet. Retrieved from Teacher Resources : http://lauracandler.com/filecabinet/literacy/PDFRead/ReadingInterestInventories.pdf

Practically, T. (2015, 08 31). Teaching Practially. Retrieved from Teachers Pay Teachers: https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Store/Teaching-Practically

 

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