Don't you wonder where the schools of education have been on this--programs and coursework for elementary school teachers, reading specialists, and so on? How could they have missed this issue? AR
________________________________ From: Aileen Grossberg <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 16, 2014 11:54 AM Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] More on Acc. Reader At one point when I was reviewing book for our library consortium, we had to do a readability check on each book. It was amazing how many picture books have a high readability level. But, of course, that's because many are meant to be read aloud by an adult to a child with the adult as an interpreter of sophisticated subject matter. Many of those books are now on the child's independent reading lists (Polacco, for example) so the adult has been removed from the reading equation. I wonder how many picture books no longer get read because there appears to be disconnect between the format and the readability. Aileen Grossberg Lampert Library Congregation Shomrei Emunah Montclair, NJ -----Original Message----- From: Andrea Rapp <[email protected]> To: Hasafran <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Jan 16, 2014 10:49 am Subject: [ha-Safran] More on Acc. Reader 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 Time. Real Time, about a teenager visiting Israel who experiences a terrorist incident is also given a level of 4.4, same as The Keeping Quilt! I want to accommodate the needs and requests of our schoolchildren, but one hopes that their public and day schools who use Accelerated Reader are not rigid (as I fear many of them are) when implementing the program. Andrea Rapp (another AR). __ Messages and opinions expressed on Hasafran are those of the individual author and are not necessarily endorsed by the Association of Jewish Libraries (AJL) ================================== Submissions for Ha-Safran, send to: [email protected] To join Ha-Safran, update or change your subscription, etc. - click here: https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran Questions, problems, complaints, compliments send to: [email protected] Ha-Safran Archives: Current: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.service.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html Earlier Listserver: http://www.mail-archive.com/hasafran%40lists.acs.ohio-state.edu/maillist.html AJL HomePage http://www.JewishLibraries.org -- Hasafran mailing list [email protected] https://lists.service.ohio-state.edu/mailman/listinfo/hasafran
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