RPI
I worked through the reading profile survey with a group of students. My 'take away' from this survey are that the children are positive about reading, they know what they like to read about, they understand it is important, and they want to get better at "reading the words".
The following graph shows how often they borrow books from the local public library. The 70% who do are a credit to the local library which used to visit the school regularly last year and issued many of the children with their own library card.
It was also good to see how many of the children were currently reading a book for enjoyment.
The survey itself was a bit tough for a large group to work through, and so this might be something I have to work on with much smaller groups or even individuals. I am also thinking of doing this survey each term - to reinforce that reading is important, and to show the children (when we discuss the results) that their view of reading is very important also.
Having the library van visiting us has been great and hopefully with the new library opening soon this will be utilised even more so. This might help get that 50% of your students who 'never' or only visit the library a 'few times a year' into this environment. I liked our discussion around adapting this survey and doing it at the start of Term 2 in small groups. It will be interesting if the results differ.
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