HIT: Re: TARGET: ELEM: Accelerated Reader advice

[Naomi Bates <nmbates@YAHOO.COM>]

My suggestion would be not to put students in a box.
If you look at the AR levels, you'd see that they are
grading on grade level words, not maturity content.  I
allow my students to read whatever grade level they
find most interesting.  Even my HS students check out
AR books that are on 5-7 grade levels.
If you have students are you that advanced, start them
on the classics.  I find students are becoming less
and less exposed to them unless read in the classroom.
 Hope this helps
Naomi Bates
Sabinal ISD
nmbates@yahoo.com
--- LaDonna Meuschke <uuj000@MAIL.CONNECT.MORE.NET>
wrote:
>         Our school began AR and the end of last
> school year, and as rookies,
> we still have some issues to work out.  The one I'm
> working with now is what
> to do with the young readers who are reading at an
> advanced grade level.  We
> have third and fourth grades (some, not a lot) who
> are reading at 7th and
> above levels.  What kinds of books are your very
> good readers reading, the
> young adult titles?????  As a K-12 library, we have
> books that would be at a
> high schooler's or adult's interest level, but also
> at these kids' reading
> level.
>
> `
> LaDonna Meuschke,  K-12 Librarian   Phone - School -
> 660-668-4427, ext. 111
> Cole Camp R-1 School                        Home  -
> 660-668-4878
> 500 S. Keeney                       e-mail - School
> - meuschkel@colecamp.k12.mo.us
> Cole Camp, MO  65325                         Home
> -  meuschke@iland.net
>                                     Fax - School -
> 660-668-4703
>
>
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Naomi Bates
Sabinal ISD
nmbates@yahoo.com

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