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 * Interest Inventories**

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**Name** || **Assessment** || **Grade Levels** || **Strategy** || **Comments** || Hahn || [] || K-3 || Information from the inventory can be used for D.I. grouping by interest || Inventories can be great tools for getting to know our students and developing meaningful relationships and authentic learning experiences. || 7-12 || Two sets of sample questions are listed t get to know kids! ||  || [] || Middle school || This is a strategy that students can do on an individual or small group basis. ||  || Watkins || http://teacher.scholastic.com/LessonPlans/unit_roadtosuccess_invent.pdf || Elementary || This is a great way to get to know students on the first week of school. There is fill in the blank sentences for the students to answer about themselves. || Interest inventories are a great way to learn more about each student and see what they like and do not like about school. ||
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 * Kelly Biernat || [] || All grades || This website has reading inventories and reading activities. || Inventories could be used to guide instruction. Activities could be incorporated into lesson plans. ||
 * Jenni Brown || [] || All grades || Completing a literacy dig with your students (students bring literacy materials from home to share with the class) would help you get to know how their family values literacy and what type of literacy experiences they have had. || I used an interest inventor from this website to get to know what my student was intrested in and a little bit about their home life. ||
 * Daniel Brant || [] || 2-7 || This page has a free printable interest inventory including preferences in subject matter, daily activities, and behavior. || This worksheet is great for helping a teacher understand each student. It helps to create a student-centered classroom and to learn what motivates students individually. ||
 * Lisa Kolman || Literacy Dig || **Birth to 3** || This can be used for children who may not talk or unable to answer a question || You can observe the child and pick out different objects and toys in their environement that would give clues to their literacy intrerests. ||
 * Andrea Ursitti || [] || All Grades || There are multiple inventories on this site including a parent questionnaire. These inventories can be used to determine student interests as well as ways to differentiate instruction. Another way to gain information is having students bring in objects from their interest inventory and share them with others. || Interest inventories can provide guidance and building blocks to differentiate instruction. The more students are engaged to provide information about themselves to the teacher then the more they will allow you to work with them academically. ||
 * Jennifer McKillop || [] || Middle School ||  || Reading Survey Lesson: A two-page interest inventory assessment for middle school age students that is set up with reading and differentiated instruction in mind. ||
 * Jessica Shuler || [[file:dreams.doc]] || Post-secondary special education || Gathering interests for student IEP || This document is used to visually support students in answering questions required for (post-secondary) IEP. ||
 * Jacqueline Sosin || [] || k-6 and
 * Jacqueline Sosin || My Favorite...daily journal prompts || k-12 || I give students a daily prompt that begins with My favorite___ is.... some examples are movie, toys, games, etc. || I have students write or draw, depepnding on their level and abilitiy. ||
 * Marissa Markey || [|get to know you] || K-12 || Interest inventory for getting to know more about your students at the beginning of th year. || This is the link for the whole website for more inventories [|more inventories] ||
 * Marissa Markey || This is a strategy to use once you have taken the interest inventory [|cooperative learning] || K-8 || These strategies will help your students work smoothly in small groups and work stations || Here is the site for more strategies [|classroom organization](I like some of the information that they give you but I dont know how credible it is, seeing as though the first word on the page is spelled wrong) ||
 * Melissa Neumann || Interest Inventory Web Quest
 * Michelle Boyd || [] || 3-6 || Use as a writing prompt or an introduction exercise || Cute reproducible that looks like front page news all about the student. The website indicates gradesK-2, but I think it would work for older students. ||
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 * Sarah Kenyon || [] || Upper Elementary/Middle School || This is a printable worksheet designed to gain knowledge about students' interests. It asks questions about books students like, subjects, T.V. shows, movies ,etc. || This is a great tool to find out how your students feel about reading and what they would like to read about. You could use the information to direct them to areas of interest or to select books for whole class reading. ||
 * Jessica Shuler || [[file:FORM 9-1.rtf]] || ages 3-8 || This easy to use form identifies progression of phonemic awareness benchmarks. || This Checklist of Early Literacy Skills can be completed by a childs parent, teacher, or SLP. ||
 * Melissa Jasmund || [|Elementary Interest Inventory] || K-5 || This is an interest inventory to get to know your students at the beginning of the year. ||  ||
 * Melissa Jasmund || Parent Reading Survey || All grades || This is a parent questionnaire to determine student reading behavior at home. ||   ||
 * Jennifer McKillop || [] || Elementary, Middle School, High School, Adult ||  || This has numerous assessments for careers in all grades as well as adults. As a special education teacher, this will work well for students that I'm transitioning through high school into adulthood. ||
 * Jennifer McKillop || [] || K-8 || Strategy of journaling a "getting to know you "letter to the teacher. ||  ||
 * Jennifer McKillop || [] || K-8 || Writer's Workshop strategy where topic of writing is taken from the interest inventory. ||  ||