All, I do not use Accelerated Reader.
I have reading incentive programs for our religious school kids in grades 1-6.
Some of these children use Accelerated Reader in their public or day schools
and want to take out books from our library for which they can get credit at
school. After several
The chapter books can be assigned ridiculously low levels, while the picture
books are the opposite. Polacco's The Keeping Quilt is mid 4th grade, as is
Nina Jaffe's In the Month of Kislev. These books are graded at a higher
reading level that Levine's Freefall andthe same as Kass' Real
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I've spoken with librarians at a couple of schools which use the program.
Teachers give students an AR reading level range, based on the child's
standardized test scores, from which to select books for AR testing and credit.
AR does also indicates the interest level of the book, which may be
Friends,
Now that the book Book Thief is a movie, I have a question for school
librarians. Do you think the book is appropriate for children? I asked
this question of the author when the book first came out. He responded that
that was not his intention, but that it was marketed that way in
Hello from Quito, Ecuador,
I have personally read the book, and I agree that this book is for students
older than 15. There is also the issue of death, since the narrator of the book
is death itself. It is a good work of fiction.
Kind regards,
Sol
Sol Paz de Hecht
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Paula --
You're right about his intent. He mentioned it at his acceptance speech at the
Conference in Phoenix.
It was the first STA Teen Book Awardee, so was not intended for a younger
audience. Most of the Older Readers STA-winning books have been for Older
Children, which I always took to
I have it under adult as well. I find it really irritating when parents tell
me how they’re reading it out loud to their mature 3rd or 4th grader and isn’t
that wonderful?! I tell them how many great choices there are for that age
group and kids will get much more out of it if they wait until
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Paula,
First let me tell you that I was delighted to see your name on Hasafran. Most
of our YA books collect dust on the shelves. When I moved it to the adult
section not even one copy stayed on the shelf. I can imagine how Toby felt when
parents read it to their 3rd-4th grade mature children.
Shalom Safranim,
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