Re: TARGET:promoting recreational reading

["T. K. Cassidy" <tkc@STORYLADY.COM>]

>My staff heavily uses the nonfiction materials
> for research purposes.  My fiction collection
> is well balanced with a  good selection of various genres, classics,
> award winners and contemporary literature.  But still it remains
> unused!

I have the opposite problem. Accelerated Reader is tied to the 3rd to 5th
reading grades so tightly that my nonfiction and any books not on "The
List" don't get much use! My principal even told me to pleasure read only
books on the AR list. For the lower grades that is not a problem, but with
chapter books, I don't see how they can retain the story over a 5 or 6 week
period enough to test well on the story! :-(

There must be a way to establish a happy medium!!! Isn't there?

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