Re: ELE: Limiting Check Out

[Guusje Moore <Guusje@AOL.COM>]

At my school everyone from grades 1-5 gets 2 books at a time- one must be a
reading book on their level- now that we've gone to AR it is usually an AR
book in their range and the other can be whatever they please- something to
hard, to easy, a joke book, a drawing book, an animal book- more or less
whatever strikes their fancy.  I call it  "meat and popcorn".

The only exception is our Goosebumps collection.  I bought them to wean our
5th graders off of Clifford the Big Red Dog and found out that every first
grader wanted one- so they could carry it around and feel "cool"- which meant
I had none for the 5th graders! So, anyone below 4th grade is welcome to check
one  out, but they have to pass the AR test on it before they can have
another. Once they pass the test they get a special "Goosebumps" sticker on
their library card.  It's become quite a rite of passage.

It gives the kids free choice but also assures their teachers that each child
has something suitable for DEAR time.  Of course, they can return their books
and get others whenever they want too also.

Guusje Moore
Housman Elementary School
Houston, TX 77055

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