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Year 4 Reading Survey
% responses
 
don't know
1. How much do you like reading at school?
50
40
8
2
2. How good do you think you are at reading?
32
56
11
1
3. How good does your reading teacher think you are at reading?
3
33
23
7
0
4. How good does your Mum or Dad think you are at reading?
12
62
22
3
1
5. How much do you like reading in your own time (not at school)?
56
29
10
5
 
heaps
quite
a lot
sometimes
never
6. How often do you read to others at school?
7
64
20
9
7. Do you have a favourite author?
yes: 69
no: 31
number of books named
7+
4-6
1-3
none
8. Can you name some of the books you have read this year?
19
34
40
7
 
e
9. How do you feel about getting a book for a present?
75
19
3
3

10. How do you feel about reading in your spare time?
55
33
7
5
11. How do you feel about looking at books in a bookshop?
68
23
6
3
12. How do you feel about going to a library?
72
21
5
2
13. How do you feel about the stories/books you read as part
of your reading programme at school?
47
40
9
4
14. How do you feel when your teacher tells a story out loud?
78
16
3
3
15. How do you feel about how well you read?
53
38
12
7
16. How do you feel about reading in a group in the classroom?
43
38
12
7
17. How do you feel when you are asked to read out loud to the teacher?
36
34
16
14
18. How do you feel when you are asked to read out loud to the class?
26
26
20
28

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Year 8 Reading Survey
% responses
 
don't know
1. How much do you like reading at school?
31
55
12
2
2. How good do you think you are at reading?
18
56
23
3
3. How good does your reading teacher think you are at reading?
54
10
27
8
1
4. How good does your Mum or Dad think you are at reading?
27
27
35
9
2
5. How much do you like reading in your own time (not at school)?
39
38
18
5
 
heaps
quite
a lot
some
times
never
6. How often do you read to others at school?
13
70
14
3
7. Do you have a favourite author?
yes: 56
no: 44
number of books named
7+
4-6
1-3
none
8. Can you name some of the books you have read this year?
24
40
31
5
 
e
9. How do you feel about getting a book for a present?
45
39
13
3

10. How do you feel about reading in your spare time?
43
39
13
5
11.How do you feel about looking at books in a bookshop?
52
37
9
2
12. How do you feel about going to a library?
53
32
12
3
13. How do you feel about the stories/books you read as part
of your reading programme at school?
24
52
18
6
14. How do you feel when your teacher tells a story out loud?
51
36
10
3
15. How do you feel about how well you read?
30
49
18
3
16. How do you feel about reading in a group in the classroom?
26
41
24
9
17. How do you feel when you are asked to read out loud ito the teacher?
19
36
25
20
18. How do you feel when you are asked to read out loud to the class?
13
25
23
39

 

Responses to the 18 rating items are presented for Year 4 students (top) and Year 8 students (above). The results show that, compared to year 4 students:

• a substantially lower proportion of year 8 students really enjoy reading at school;

• a substantially lower proportion of year 8 students think they are very good at reading, or that their teacher  or parent thinks they are very good at reading;

• a substantially higher proportion of year 8 students say that they dont know what their teacher thinks about their reading (even the 37% of year 4 students saying this seems quite high);

• based on responses to questions 6 and 9 to 12, a substantially lower proportion of year 8 students indicated very positive attitudes to reading related activity (the most positive rating was chosen by an average of 46% of year 8 students, compared to 65% of year 4 students).

The responses at both levels indicate significant concerns about reading aloud to the teacher (question 17), and even more so about reading aloud to the class (question 18), with high levels of concern at year 8 level.
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