kus_affective


 * 1) Grade 2, Assessing student affect towards reading.
 * 2) Objectives: Students will report how they feel about different reading situations so that they can be targeted with good affect okay affect or bad affect towards reading.
 * 3) Affective Assessment questionnaire where students had to respond to how they felt during certain situations by circling the smiley face of how they feel.
 * 4) From this assessment I could tell that the first student I assessed has very good affect towards reading. I concluded this because she felt happy about every single one of my questions, even those about reading for math and science purposed, which most children do not enjoy. The second student answered different. I concluded that the second student had okay affect. This is because he answered some questions with happy faces, others okay indifferent faces, and one with a sad face. This student seems to like when people read to him or with him but not when he has to read by himself, or read about something he is not interested in such as math or science. This is a typical response because most students would rather read something they care about or are interested in rather than something the teacher assigns. Therefore there seem to be different levels of affect within this classroom.
 * 5) [[file:Affective Student Work.doc]]
 * 6) For the entire class I would promote reading as something fun and enjoyable, no matter what the type is. I would make sure students have the chance to pick their own books to read, as well as still reading informational text, to promote accurate grade level learning.
 * 7) The first student, Kait, needs to keep her affect up. Therefore continue having fun reading will be important to maintain her attitude. For Justin I think if he is motivated a little he would enjoy reading to himself more than he does right now. Maybe he could pick more books which are enjoyable to him rather than being assigned books he doesn’t like reading.