Hargett_08_affective_assessment

__**Grade Level:**__ First Grade

__**Objective:**__ Students will overtime gain an appreciation for and an understanding of how to utilize non-fiction literature.

__**Instrument Used**__
__**Reading Non-fiction Literature Attitude Survey**__

Name:_

Directions: Circle either Yes, Sometimes or No for which answer is the best way to describe how you feel about non-fiction literature

I like reading books about real people’s lives, like Martin Luther King Jr. or Christopher Columbus.


 * Yes Sometimes No **

I enjoy reading books about plants.

I enjoy reading books about animals.
 * Yes Sometimes No **

** Yes Sometimes No

** I like reading books about things that have happened in history.


 * Yes Sometimes No **

I like reading and looking at newspapers and magazines.


 * Yes Sometimes No **

I like reading science books on subjects like space and weather.


 * Yes Sometimes No **

I have used an encyclopedia before.

I understand how to use a table of contents.
 * Yes Sometimes No **


 * Yes Sometimes No **

I like books with real photographs in them.
 * Yes Sometimes No **

==**High/Low Performers: Since this was an affective assessment where students responded to their attitudes and experiences with non fiction literature, I could not really label them high and low and therefore gave a variety of sample works.**==





===__Analysis of data__: I used this assessment with a group of six students that I pulled aside during class. There were three girls and three boys that filled in the analysis. I found that five out of six students did not know what an encyclopedia was and therefore had never used one. I also was surprised to find that three students said they did not like books with real pictures in them, which surprised me. I also found that the majority of the students either enjoyed or somewhat enjoyed non-fiction books that they have had experience with in class such as science books, biographys, and history books.===

===__**Plans for future instruction to entire class (including these students who are sampled):**__ **I would plan to introduce students to more of a variety of non-fiction literature, rather then only have the students utilize non-fiction literature during science and social studies. For example, I might do a lesson on the encyclopedia where the students are introduced to it, learn what it is used for, and how to maneuver their way through the encyclopedia, and then they could each pick a subject from it and do a small oral report explaining what they learned about it. I would also introduce the class to more photograph essays because I have a feeling that many of them said they disliked it because they have not really seen any. In my opinion, pictures are a very strong way for students to learn about what happened in the past and realize it actually happened.**===