Student Interest Survey

1. What are you interested in?

Playing sports ____ Watching sports ____ Art ____ Video Games ____
Watching TV ____ Listening to Music ____ Playing Music ____ Watching
Movies ____ Using the Computer ____ Anything else? ______
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2. Do you like to read? ________________________________________

3. How do you feel you are at reading? _____________________________

4. How much do you read outside of school? _________________________

5. What is the name of one book you enjoy reading? ___________________

6. What do you do when you come to a word that you dont know? _________
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7. Do you like to write? ________________________________________

8. How do you feel you are at writing? _____________________________

9. What is your favorite subject? ________________________________

10. What subject is hardest for you? ______________________________

Student Focus Group

How do you figure out words you cannot read?

What kind of context clues do you use to figure out the meanings of words
when reading?

How often do you skip a word you dont know and go on to find out the
meaning of the word from the sentence?

How often do you ask the teacher to give you the word?

How often do you write new vocabulary words in a sentence?

How often do you practice spelling new vocabulary words?

What are other ways you practice new vocabulary words to remember them
better?