Re: HIT: Update on reading level - series books

[Barb Engvall <macbarb@CHARTER.NET>]

Actually, it is the KIDS who win!

Barb

On Nov 4, 2003, at 12:06 PM, Brenda Wunder wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> Just to let you know I met with my principal and my
> coworker to discuss the reading levels of the series
> books in question. The results: we win! The children
> will be allowed to read below level for pleasure
> reading and on level for required book reports. Thanks
> again for your thoughts and beliefs.
>
> Here is the original post:
> My coworker and I are in disagreement as to whether it
> is ok for 6th graders to be reading the Hardy Boys
> series, Nancy Drew, Dear America and A Series of
> Unfortunate Events. Our fiction collection is
> separated into grade groups (3-5, 6-8). The 6th
> graders are supposed to be taking books from the 6-8
> section and not the 3-5 section. However, I feel that
> these books are on the borderline and can go in either
> group. Usually this isn's too much of a problem unless
> one of us is covering for the other; if a student
> brings back a late book on a day I am not there; or,
> if one of her 6th grades sees that one of mine has one
> of these books from the 3-5 section.  I say yea, she
> says nay. Your opinions please?
>
> Brenda Wunder
> Librarian
> St. Ursula School (K-8)
> Baltimore, Maryland
> bwunder2002@yahoo.com
>
>
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