Reading+Interest+Surveys

Becoming familiar with a student's interests will help lead us to appropriate and meaningful book recommendations for a young reader. Using the resources below, and any other resources you find to be useful, you will create a reading interest survey that will be administered to reluctant readers in a 6th grade class, an 8th grade English class or a high school reading class. The completed survey will be returned to you, and you will then select two books (available in the student's school library)

**Denice Hildebrandt's Reading Interest Survey** http://www.ala.org/ala/yalsa/teenreading/tipsenc/reading_interest_survey.pdf from "’But There's Nothing Good to Read’ (In the Library Media Center),” by Denice Hildebrandt, Media Spectrum: The Journal for Library Media Specialists in Michigan, Fall 2001, p. 34–37.

http://www.csd99.k12.il.us/NORTH/LIBRARY/read/readinterest.htm

I have posted two sample book recommendations. Using the guidelines that I handed out (also attached as a scanned doc) and your own discoveries about the work, please articulate your recommendations and post them to your wiki. You can either make a new page titled Book Recommendations or post it through the discussion tab on your Reading Interest Survey page. A few people asked if they could recommend more than two books. . . Absolutely!! Please feel free to run your recommendations by me before Thursday's posting, and I'll try to give you feedback ASAP. **Guidelines Handout**
 * Sample Book Recommendations**

**//Looking for Alaska//**


 * //Good Brother, Bad Brother//**

I highly recommend that you put these two books on your "Future Books to Read" list!