Book Choices: A Classroom Reading Challenge Your Students Will Enjoy
At our school, our upper elementary students HATED to read. Accelerated Reader was a BIG deal. And I don’t mean it’s a big deal in a positive way, but rather everyone felt the pressure to make it happen. All students were expected to read books within their Zone of Proximal Development, answer questions with 90% accuracy or more, and earn an obnoxious number of AR points per school year. It was stressful, both for the students and the teachers in our building. As a fifth grade teacher, I had two problems. My class average HAD to be 5.8 by the…
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