To help me help you with the reading

Please answer the following questions honestly. There isn’t a right or wrong answer, just your true answer.


  1. Before you read do you read the title and headings?
    Yes
    No


  1. Before you read do you look at the pictures?
    Yes
    No


  1. Before you read do you try to predict what the passage will tell you?
    Yes
    No


  1. Before you read do you ask yourself what you already know about the topic?
    Yes
    No


  1. Before you read do you plan how you are going to read the selection-quicky versus slowly?
    Yes
    No


  1. While you are reading do you think about what you are reading?
    Yes
    No


  1. While you are reading do you stop every once in a while and ask yourself what you’ve read so far?
    Yes
    No


  1. While you are reading do you picture or imagine the people, events or places that you are reading about?
    Yes
    No


  1. While you are reading do you make up questions about the material in your mind?
    Yes
    No


  1. While you are reading, do you imagine that you are talking to the author or characters?
    Yes
    No


  1. If what you are reading is confusing do you read it again?
    Yes
    No


  1. If what you are reading is confusing, do you just keep reading it?
    Yes
    No


  1. If what you are reading is confusing do you try to get help from photos or drawings?
    Yes
    No


  1. If you run into a hard word do you use the context to try to figure it out?
    Yes
    No


  1. If you run into a hard word do you try to sound it out?
    Yes
    No


  1. If you run into a hard word do you use a dictionary or a glossary or your cell phone to help you?
    Yes
    No


  1. After you are done reading do you think about what you read?
    Yes
    No


  1. Do you take notes while you are reading if the material is complex?
    Yes
    No


  1. Is reading hard?
    Yes
    No


  1. Is reading fun?
    Yes
    No


  1. What would you most like me to know about your reading so that I can be helpful to you?





kristin larsen
Science teacher/Reading teacher
Virginia Randolph
Henrico, VA