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 * Interest Inventories**

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http://www.sanchezclass.com/docs/student-interest-inventory.pdf [|Short Answer Inventory - Get to Know Your Students] || 1-3rd || Get to know you activities || These inventories can be used at the start of the school year. They are a great tool to begin a classroom community. Often times it is difficult to encourage students to begin conversation with you on the first day. These tools will start it for you! || || 2nd-6th || This is a great strategy to use with students at the beginning of the year or when you beginning tutoring, to look at not only their interests and confidence, but also a bit of background on reading knowledge. (Do they know what genre, etc.) || Cute survey to print off, it has color pictures and its interesting to the eye! The survey would be a better fit for a child that had a background with genre/other reading material. || Leon || Parent Letter (Front) Parent Letter (Back) Student Inventory || 3-5 || There are two inventories that I have posted. One is for the students and the other is for parents. This is the parent homework on the first day of school. || The student inventory is their chance to tell me all out themselves. I keep their inventories and refer to them throughout the year. || http://www.neisd.net/vol/documents/m_student_inventory.pdf || 6-8 || These student interest inventories are an excellent way for teachers to get to know a little bit about their students. They are already in a PDF format, they are "student friendly" and they capture a lot of valuable information about the student. They should be administered during the first week of school, or during the first week of a new class. || The second student inventory is more advanced and could even be used in a high school setting. Although these inventories focus more on student interests, they could also be used for differentiation purposes. || [] || 2-3 K-8 || 1st: This inventory is laid out for students to make choices on types of reading such as fiction or nonfiction. 2nd: This site gives you an overview for using interest inventories and it gives a reading interest inventory that rates the students' interest with "happiest", "slightly smiling", "mildly upset", and "very upset". ||  || Free Career Interest Test. || [] || K-6 Interst Inventory and a 7-12 Interest Inventory || Shuster || [] || All || [] || Could be used in all ||
 * Student Name || Assessment || Grade Levels || Strategy || Comments ||
 * Kevin Driver || http://www.saskschools.ca/~ischool/adapthandbook/learner/interest.html#712interest || 11 || Information from the inventory can be used for D.I. grouping by interest || Inventories can be great tools for getting to know our students and developing meaningful relationships and authentic learning experiences. ||
 * Michelle Wilczak ||~ [] || 6-8 || This strategy can be used to get to know my student and find material they enjoy reading. From there I can create my mini-lessons using differentiated instruction. || This information can help me pinpoint areas of interest for my students. I like that this inventory asks about different types of books an usingthe newspaper. ||
 * Dana || [] || pre-k ||  || This is a wonderful tool to see what your young readers enjoy. ||
 * Dana Saenz || [[file:reading interest survey.doc]] || 1st-high school || Can use the info for D.I. grouping by interest || Quick tool to see what interest the student. ||
 * Jessica Hebel || [|Get to know your students]
 * Carey Thomsen || [[file:Interest-Attitude Interview.docx]] || 1-3 || Before assessment interview || This is from the Flynt/Cooter Reading Inventory ||
 * Stephanie Hayward || http://www.scholasticred.com/dodea/pdfs/SPED_SR_survey6-12.pdf || 2-4 ||  || Quick interest inventory your students can do. ||
 * Betsy Mueller || __[]__ || K || This strategy can be used at the beginning of the school year to provide personal interests to assist teachers in selecting appropriate rsources and instructional strategies. || This is a good survey for developing readers. ||
 * Elizabeth McKenna || Reading Interest Survey
 * Kristy Trombley || __[]__ || 2-5 || This is a wonderful getting to know you inventory for the start of the school year. || A good inventory to add to your beginning of the year packet. ||
 * Jessica Fisk || [|www.boyd.k12.ky.us/curriculum/.../reading%20interest%20inventory.doc] || K-2 || This is a very simple reading inventory that students can easily answer. Kindergarten and first grade teachers may need to read this to their students. This would be a great tool to use for grouping students during reading workshop. || This will really help to understanding the environment in which individual students like to read (buddy reading, reading to self, listening to a book read to them, etc.). ||
 * Marietta
 * Don Mackewich || http://www.mcas.k12.in.us/plp/STUDENTINTERESTINVENTORY.pdf
 * Jessica Johnson || [[file:Burke Reading Inventory.docx]] || Early Elementary ||  || A reading inventory to help students understand what a good reader is. ||
 * Julie Gregor || [|Interest Inventory] || K-2 || Use answer to questions to find out what and how students learn and incorporate them into your lesson plans || A good way to learn about a student, what they like, don't like, favorite color, etc. ||
 * Melinda Wavra || [|interest inventory] || K-3 || Have students answer the questions on the inventory sheet. It can be used at open house and have parents help the child answer the questions. Or it can be sent home and completed. || Great way to find out what your students are interested in. Also a good home-to-school connection. ||
 * Traci Gabow || []
 * Melissa Johnson || [] || 3-6 || Use this information for D.I. grouping by interest || Quick interest inventory for your students. ||
 * Lori Losinski || [[file:reading-survey.pdf]] || Early Elementary || This reading survey is to be given by the teacher to find out what the student likes to read, how they like to read and how they feel about reading. Teacher should write down the responses on the lines provided. The questions on the survey could also be used as discussion questions. || A great reading survey to use at the beginning of the year to help understand your students as readers. ||
 * Kelly Gartrell || [] || 8-Adult
 * Joanne Haberkamp || [|http://www.effectiveteachingsolutions.com] || All || [] ||  ||
 * Sam
 * Marisa Swartz || [] || K-12 ||  ||   ||
 * Kristi Miller || http://www.saskschools.ca/~ischool/adapthandbook/learner/interest.html#k6interest || K-6 || At this site, students fill in the questionnaire online and receive immediate results which can be printed. The interpretation page gives strategies to help students with different learning styles become successful. The vocabulary is upper elementary and above. ||  ||
 * Jan Allardyce || [[file:Student Interest Survey.docx]] || 2-8 || [[file:Interest Inventory Strategy using a graphic organizer.docx]] || K-6 ||
 * Rachel Messer || []

This is a large document, but it covers many reading assessment tools that can be used. It includes an explanation of each. || K-5 || [] || This is a good article about using interest inventories with struggling readers, as well as examples of them. || []
 * Elizabeth McKenna || Web Quest Site:

Printable Material:

More webquests and information at: www.daretodifferentiate.wikispaces.com || 4-8 ||  || This is the address to a webquest that student use to find out more about themselves as readers. There is also a printable to go along with it that students can self score. This is a great strategy to get students thinking about why you would use a reading inventory. ||