Example Of Interest Survey

The first day we got to know each other. We did a few different interest survey. Mark is a fifteen years old student at Zanesville High School. He has four older brothers and one older sister. His hobbies include sports, video games, sleep, and watching the walking dead. His favorite sport is football. When asked will he go out for the team he said no. he said, “I just enjoy playing with me friends in my backyard”. I redirected from friendly questions and moved on to academics questions. I had him feel out a survey about reading. His favorite types of books are about ghost and zombies. It was interesting to me that he did not read on his own. Another interesting fact was that he enjoyed reading in class. I know that is a good fact. What

made all that interesting was when he answered questions about comprehension. He did not enjoy comprehension. He did not like when the teacher called on him to answer questions about what he or someone else read.
Our class just discussed explicit, sustained comprehension instruction in class. So looking back on it I wonder what his experiences in his education process were. Did he have any practices with comprehension? I talked with his teacher. I asked her what reading level do you think he is on. She told me he might be on a fifth grade. She said he is the highest level in the class and that’s why she had him participate in my testing and strategies.