Student Z Inventory Assessment

Student Z is a 3rd-grade male that is eight years old and is a native born citizen. He was assessed on September 13, 2016, with a reading interest inventory survey. At the beginning of the assessment the child was apprehensive to take the survey. Student Z wanted to know if it was a test and if it would count as a grade against him. When he was explained that the reading inventory was an informal assessment based on opinion only, he opened up and became very cooperative. The student was able to read and answer the questionnaire without any assistance.
Student Z was the only student to answer that reading is a fun activity. He seems to enjoy reading; however, he would rather read alone. This may be due to fluency issues. Students who struggle

with fluency would rather read on their own then read aloud within a group activity. On question #9, in reference to how many times he reads at home per week according to a scale form 0-10, he answered he reads five times. This was also the highest reading interval score out of the three students. Before answering question #9, his favorite book, he asked if it was acceptable to answer he only reads books about basketball in general. The student was reassured the answer was acceptable and that basketball books make great reading.
Student Z made the same error as Student Y in choosing more than three pictures at the end of the survey. It was observed he also became enthusiastic with the pictures and had various choices to narrow them to only three. As predicted he chose and circled the sports as his first photo. The child seems to relate very with sports, as also seen in his choice of activities which were playing outside and playing games. His only favorite subject was math which is closely related to sports in many ways. In his choice of realistic fiction he may also find interest in stories that are correlated to legendary sports figures.