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I have a question for anyone who uses RAZ-kids. I have found that some of my students don't use it as well as they should. When I look at their reports it seems like they really jump around from story to story and might take a quiz 5 times and still only score 4/10 every time. I know they are at the correct level, I just don't think they are putting effort into it. These are 6th graders who are several years below grade level. I use it while I work with small groups so students are occupied, so it is hard for me to monitor their time and attention on each story. And my new group doesn't even know about the rocket feature yet. I can just see them clicking through stories and quizzes just to earn stars without even reading.

So my question is, do you have all books at a level open to a student and they get to choose the ones they want until all books at a level are complete? Or would it be a good idea to limit the books available to one or two at a time and require students to co...See More
Sped teacher I'm using Raz-Kids for the first time. I am afraid of the same thing hapening that you have described. Can you just select a few books in each level for the students? I have it set right now to have them move through the levels. I plan to have them all in the log at once and also be able to access them from home. We start this tomorrow so we shall ...See More
Aug 27, 2009


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