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Name: l e readi n g surv ey

Date:
Sample 1: I am in - - - - - - ---
~octh grade - - - - - 4. My best friends think reading is - - - - - -
Seventh grade really fun
Q Eighth grade
a Ninth grade ~OKtodo
0 Tenth grade D no fun at all
0 Eleventh grade 5. When I come to a word I don't know, I can
0 Twelfth grade
D almost always figure it out
Sample 2: I am a
~Female ------ ~ometimes figure it out
D almost never figure it out
Male
D never figure it out
Sample 3: My race/ethnicity is _ _ _ _ __
6. I tell my friends about good books I read.
D African-American
D I never do this
D Asian/Asian American
~Caucasian
)!!1 almost never do this
D I do this some of the time
~Hispanic
Native American D I do this a lot
Multi-racial/Multi-ethnic 7. When I am reading by myself, I understand
Other: Please specify _ _ _ _ __

1. My friends think I am _ _ _ _ __ D almost everything I read

a very good reader ~ome of what I read
a good reader D almost none of what I read
~nOKreader none of what I read
a poor reader
8. People who read a lot are
2. Reading a book is something I like to do.
------
very interesting
~interesting
Not very often
not very interesting
~Sometimes
Often

3.Iread _ _ _ _ _ _.
~ o t as well as my friends
9. I am
------
a poor reader
about the same as my friends ~OK reader
a little better than my friends
a good reader
a lot better than my friends
a very good reader
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10. I think 1·b . are

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Date:
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a great place to sp_e_n_d-ti_m_e_ __ 16. As an adult, I will spend _ _ __ _ _
,
D none of my time reading
an interesting place to spend time
)(very little time reading
'gan OK place to spend time "cfsome of my time reading
0 a boring place to spend time 0 a lot of my time reading

11. I worry about what other kids think about 17. When I am in a group talking about what we are
my reading _ _ _ _ __ reading, I _ _ _ _ __
~most never talk about my ideas
lS'°almost every day sometimes talk about my ideas
0 once in a while almost always talk about my ideas
always talk about my ideas

18. I ~ould like for my teachers to read out loud in

12. Knowing how to read well is _ _ _ _ __
my classes _ _ _ _ __
not very important
~ort of important
almost every day
important
once in a while
very important
ef never
13. When my teacher asks me a question abou
19. When I read out loud I am a _ _ _ _ __
what I have read, I _ _ _ _ __
poor reader
can never think of an answer
0 have trouble thinking of an answer ~OK reader
~sometimes think of an answer 0 good reader
always think of an answer very good reader

14. I think reading is _ _ _ _ __ 20. When someone gives me a book for a present, I
a boring way to spend time feel _ _ _ _ __
~ n OK way to spend time Overy happy
an interesting way to spend time gsort of happy
a great way to spend time 0 sort of unhappy

15. Reading is _ _ _ _ __
very easy for me
2§(,.kind of easy for me
kind of hard for me
very hard for me

Nott. Adapted with pcnnission from th M . .

otwatJon to Read Profile (Gambrell p Im
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mg. & Mazzoni, 1996)