Elementary Reading Attitude Survey

Last week, I administered the Elementary Reading Attitude Survey to my focal group for my baseline data before beginning The Daily Five or literature circles. It was made up of twenty questions, but there were a lot of repetitive questions, so I just chose nine questions to focus my data on. I then made pie charts based on student responses for these nine questions. Since it is difficult to see what each color represents, here it is: Blue-Happiest Garfield; Red-Slightly smiling Garfield; Green-Mildly upset Garfield; Purple-Very upset Garfield. The students have positive attitudes about starting a new book and reading in school. The students also had mostly positive attitudes about reading different kinds of books and reading in class, but there were also a few students who had very upset attitudes about these questions. The students had mostly very upset attitudes about reading out loud in class and taking a reading test. The responses to the last three questions were much more varied. This gives me really good baseline data so I can better understand the students' attitudes toward various aspects of reading. Check back in a couple of days to read more about my baseline Writing Attitude Survey, which I will administer hopefully on Monday, if all goes as planned.