Our Literacy Committee has been meeting and exploring interventions, strategies, and ideas for supporting our students' reading development.  While we had assessed students' proficiency in terms of decoding and comprehension, we realized that one critical piece of data that we were missing was student voice.  

In March, we asked all teachers to ask the following questions to their students... this could be in a written survey, or in a conversation:

1. How is your reading going? 

2. How do you know? 

3. What do you love about reading? 

4. What don’t you like about reading/ What makes reading challenging? 

What really emerged for us, is that our students have some understanding about their own skills, and while many of them feel comfortable with their skill level in reading, many of them seem to lack some enthusiasm and joy about reading.  We want to explore this data further... is there a correlation between enjoyment of reading and proficiency?  If we increase enthusiasm (and motivation) for reading, how might that support skill development as well?