KS3 Reading: Rossi Autobiography Informal Assessment (motorcycle description)

I’m tutoring a 8 year old with ADHD, and ASD who loves motorcycles and Valentino Rossi.I needed to assess his reading skills so chose Rossi’s autobiography from 2006, “What if I Hadn’t Tried?”. It is simply written, translated from Italian, and skirts over inappropriate behaviour with phrases like “long term and short term girlfriends” or “we got into some trouble” and has a review from a Parker-Bowles in the Sun, so I think the whole book will be appropriate for his reading age of 7 1/2 years, and I plan to make several further lessons on it for him if you enjoy this one.
Pictures of the cover, back, and Rossi’s signature create some interest and structure of books can be discussed.
There are 10 main questions over the course of the first page and a half describing the Australian GP win, followed by some lightning speed skimming and scanning questions. The first couple of questions are Maths based to cover some numeracy skills and see if students can process what they’re being asked to do.
The questions touch on structure (in media res opening), metaphors, similes, information retrieval, and effects on the reader of the exciting description.
Key Word = trajectory and there is a definition and diagram for this. The last challenge asks students to draw the race track from the description given.
I designed this to have answers written in books, but it could easily be adapted.
Reading assessment. Reading worksheet.