My school is now implementing both AR goals and 100 book challenge goals.
Kids are not only required to meet point goals, but also log every 15 minute
block of reading. And they can't read for an hour and write "one
hour"...they have to log four separate 15 minute slots, and get the "coach"
to sign in on that. It's sucking the life right out of our very best
readers, :( .

On 9/13/09, Ima Teacher wrote:
> "Everybody is Wrong" is actually correct.
>
> There is more to picking a book than a readability level. You just have
> to take into consideration the interest level.
>
> AR is not an easy program to understand or implement correctly. There
> are many ways to choose books, but not all of them are the best way to do
> so. The "basics" aren't all that complicated, but those kids who fall
> outside the norms can be difficult to place in books and serve well.
>
> As far as color-coding the books or sorting them by "grade level", that's
> not best practice. Imagine that you were a 7th grader who was reading
> three years below grade level. It would be rather embarrassing to have
> to go to the 4th grade book section or walk around carrying a 4th grade
> book. And I've seen students who weren't able to use a library properly
> because they thought the books were supposed to be organized by book
> level.
>

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