Possible Questions for the Initial Interview (Reading Diagnosis)

1. How do you feel about taking a book home to read?

2. What is your favorite book?

3. How do you feel about reading books on the computer?

4. Do you feel it is important to read?

5. Do you read at home with your parents?

6. What do you do when you come to a word you don't know?

7. Where is your favorite place to read?

8. Do you go to the public library to check out books?

9. When is your favorite time to read?

10. What is your favorite book?

11. How much TV do you watch? What are your favorite shows?

12. What is your favorite reading subject? (genre)

13. Do you ever see things your parents read at home?

14. Have you listened to books on tape?

15. How many books do you have at home? How many total books at home?

16. Do you have any hobbies?

17. What is the funnest thing you have done in school?

18. Do you enjoy certain types of reading?

19. How do you prefer to read?

20. Can you re-tell the story in your own words after you have read the book?

21. Do you have a favorite author? Which book? Why?

22. Do you think you read as well as your peers?

23. Do you have trouble with certain sounds in words?

24. Have you ever read nursery rhymes or fairy tales?

25. Do you like to eat while you read?

26. Do you ever see your parents read for themselves?