Focus student interviews

After completing Do You Hear What I Hear, I asked my four focus students the following questions:

• What do you think about this strategy? Did it help? Did it not? Do repeated readings help usually?
• If you were given this passage on your own and asked to complete it, would you have read it once, more than once, or not at all? Explain

Here are the answers...

Ezavion *fake name (low african american male)

• "It was in between hard and easy. I liked that you read it to me. "
• "I would have read it once and then quit. I would not have reread it, I would have just been like I'm not gonna do it."

Billy (medium-high white male)

• "I think it was helpful. I had a better understanding and I got to hear it a second time."
• "I would have read it once and then scanned it for answers."

Alexa (low white female)

• "It was helpfu. When I hear it over and over, it sticks, like repetition."
• "I would have read it more than once, to make sure I understand it."

Shianne (medium-high african american female)

• "I like that you reread it because I had forgotten some. I got more info this way."
• "I would have reread it if I needed to...and highlight. I like to highlight."