Life Sucking, I feel sorry for your situation. Sad part is
AR is not the issue here. The system and how you are
using it seems to be the problem. I've never been a fan
of forcing 1 system to students. Goals are just that.
They are goals for students. Just like Grades. Shouldn't
every student strive to get an A? The one nice things is
that every student can have a differnt goal. So if
everyone is held to the same level, that would not be
fair.

Sounds like you school is trying a standard that is hard to
adjust to. Involves Reading and writing to further
comprehension and using a standard and goals to ensure
students follow thru with the system.

On 9/15/09, Life Sucking wrote:
> 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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