Motivation to Read Profile

Update of public-domain instrument developed by National Reading Research Center Updated by Malloy, Marinak, Gambrell, & Mazzoni (2013)

Teacher Directions for the MRP Reading Survey

Distribute copies of the Reading Survey
Ask students to complete the survey honestly. Assure them there are no right or wrong answers.
The survey is designed to have the teacher read the questions and answer choices to the students.

A. I am in a. 2nd grade b. 3rd grade c. 4th grade c. 5th grade d. 6th grade	B. I am a a. Boy b. Girl
1. My friends think I am a. a very good reader b. a good reader c. an OK reader d. a poor reader	2. Reading a book is something I like to do a. never b. almost never c. sometimes d. often
3. I read a. not as well as my friends b. about the same as my friends c. a little better than my friends d. a lot better than my friends	4.My friends think reading is a. really fun b. fun c. OK to do d. no fun at all
5.When I come to a word I don’t know, I can a. almost always figure it out b. sometimes figure it out c. almost never figure it out d. never figure it out	6.I tell my friends about good books I read a. never b. almost never c. some of the time d. a lot
7.When I am ready by myself, I understand a. everything I read b. almost everything I read c. almost none of what I read d. none of what I read	8.People who read a lot are a. very interesting b. interesting c. not very interesting d. boring
9.I am a. a poor reader b. an OK reader c. a good reader d. a very good reader	10.I think libraries are a. a really great place to spend time b. a great place to spend time c. a boring place to spend time d. a really boring place to spend time
11.I worry about what other people think about my reading a. a lot b. sometmes c. almost never d. never	12.I think becoming a good reader is a. not very important b. sort of important c. important d. very important
13.When my teacher asks me a question about what I have read, I a. I can never think of an answer b. I almost never think of an answer c. I sometimes think of an answer d. I can always think of an answer	14.I think spending time reading is a. really boring b. boring c. great d. really great
15. Reading is a. very easy for me b. kind of easy for me c. kind of hard for me d. very hard for me	16. When my teacher reads book out loud, I think it is a. really great b. great c. boring d. really boring
17. When I am in a group talking about stories, I a. I hate to talk about my ideas b. I don’t like to talk about my ideas c. I like to talk about my ideas d. I love talk about my ideas	18. When I have free time, I spend a. none of my time reading b. very little of my time reading c. some of my time reading d. a lot of my time reading
19. When I read out loud I am a a. poor reader b. OK reader c. good reader d. very good reader	20. When someone gives me a book for a present, a. I am very happy b. I am sort of happy c. I am unhappy d. I am very unhappy

MRP-R Reading Survey Scoring Guidelines
Use the scales below to record the scores for each student.
*Recording scale: a = 1, b = 2, c = 3, d = 4
Recoding scale: a = 4, b = 3, c = 2, d = 1 — Recode items marked with an *

Self-Concept as a Reader	Value of Reading
1. _____	*2. _____
3. _____	4. _____
*5. _____	*6. _____
7. _____	8. _____
*9. _____	10. _____
*11. _____	*12. _____
*13. _____	*14. _____
15. _____	16. _____
*17. _____	*18. _____
*19. _____	20. _____
SC Score: _______	V Score: _______
SC Scores + V Score: _______

Percentage Scores: Self-Concept (SC/40):
Value (V/40):
Full Survey (Total/80):

Conversational Interview – Student perceptions about reading

Self-Concept as a Reader:

What kind of readers are you?
What’s the easiest thing about reading?
What’s hard about reading?
What do you have to do to become a better reader?
How could teachers help you become a better reader?

Value of Reading:

What kinds of books do you like to read?

Tell me about them [topics/genres/information and/or narrative]

Do you read different things at home than at school?
What kinds of things other than books do you read at home? [pause for students to answer]

eBooks [Kindle, Nook, iPad, etc.)
Computer/laptop/iPad, etc.
Internet (what do you do online?}
Communication (e.g. e-mail, IM, Blog, Twitter, Facebook, post, chat)

How do you find out about books you might like to read?
What kind of books do you want to read now?
What could teachers do to make reading more enjoyable?
Is it important to learn to read well?
What kind of reading will you do when you’re an adult?

Additional details available in Assessing Motivation to Read: The Motivation to Read Profile-Revised
Jacquelyn A. Malloy, Barbara A. Marinak, Linda B. Gambrell, & Susan A. Mazzoni
The Reading Teacher, Vol. 67, Issue 4, pp. 273-282

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