MacDonald_portfolio_affectiveassessment


 * Affective Assessment:** [|macdonald affective assessment.docx]

1. **Grade level: 2 Content: affect towards reading** 2. **Objectives:** Students will show their feelings about reading by completing the provided assessment. 3. **Assessment Criteria:** provided in attachment. 4. **Analysis of data:** Most students showed they like to read, but not all read everyday or in their free time. The class is supposed to read fifteen minutes everyday and have their parents sign each night on a sheet to be turned in Fridays. This shows not all students complete this weekly assignment. Most students like to read many genres. Many students do not like reading aloud, which is interesting. This could be because they are still new readers. Each day, there is a "featured reader" in the class who picks a story to read to the class, so perhaps with practice, their affect towards reading aloud will change. 5. **Sample of Student work:** high: [|mac_affective_high.jpg] low: [|mac_affective_low.jpg] 6. **Recommendations for future instruction for entire class:** Have students read aloud more regularly for practice. The students can also read various genres to expose those who claim to not like all genres to what is available. 7. **Recommendations for future instruction for sampled students:** The first student has mostly all positive affects toward reading. Perhaps this student could spend less time watching TV at home and more time reading to enjoy it more. They also could practice reading to increase familiarity with vocabulary, so they will not have as much trouble at times. It will increase with practice. This student also said they do not read at home. Reading at home is not only a weekly assignment, but will help students read more than just what is learned in the classroom. The second student has mostly negative affects toward reading. This student could have more frequent turns as "featured reader" to increase their liking for reading aloud. They also could read more than what is required for their nightly fifteen minutes. This might be easier if they like the book they are reading. This student does like reading at home, however, so perhaps reading more at home will decrease trouble with reading and increase liking.