Interest Inventory for Readers to Launch Reading Workshop

Grade: 5

Subject: ELA

Topic: Interest Inventory for Readers to Launch Reading Workshop

Description: Get to know your students and his/her Reading Interests via Google Form.

TEKS: 5.19 Students are expected to write persuasive essays for appropriate audiences that establish a position… Figure 19 Reading/Comprehension Skills. Students use a flexible range of meta-cognitive reading skills in both assigned and independent reading to understand an author’s message. Students will continue to apply earlier standards with greater depth in increasingly more complex texts as they become self-directed, critical readers. 

Tech TEKS 1.A The student is expected to create original products using a variety of resources 4.B  The student is expected to  collect, analyze, and represent data to solve problems using tools such as word processing, databases, spreadsheets, graphic organizers, charts, multimedia, simulations, models, and programming languages

4 C’s: Communicate

Resources:

Lesson: At the beginning of the year, get to know your students through their favorite books, or types of books, to read.  This is a fun way to launch reading workshop!  Share a Google Form with your student’s so that you can get to know your students as readers.  Form entries (see link in Lesson Procedures for a Form to copy) may include: student name, favorite author, favorite novel, favorite series, topics you enjoying reading about, etc.

Device Type: iPad, Chromebook, Laptop, Samsung Tablet

Suggested Apps: Google Forms