<div dir="ltr">We do Accelerator Reader and I can check that way. They have to read and take the AR quiz. We did not have very good participation this year either. <div>Denise</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 2:36 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.info</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space">I don’t make them do any work at all! I feel like participating in the reader’s choice awards should not entail any extra in school or homework, besides the reading. When it is time to vote, I have them fill out a Google form, which includes one question about why the book was their favorite. Teachers read the books as read alouds, and I read the shorter ones in library. We talk at the beginning of the year and at voting time about character counts, and how we should be telling the truth about if we read the books. Many students participate, and I see them gleefully checking out the books. If one or two cheaters slip through, I am willing to take the risk to encourage more participation.<br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Feb 26, 2018, at 12:14 PM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.<wbr>info</a>> wrote:</div><br class="m_4497692545078517916Apple-interchange-newline"><div><div dir="auto">I print off questions for the books. I keep them in a three-ring binder at my circulation desk. When kids come in for Library class or if they have spare time they come in and quiz over book. If they can answer three comprehension questions I figure they read the book. I'm a pretty small school so this works for me. Probably wouldn't work for larger populations.<br><br><div data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Connie Workman, Librarian<br>VIT CUSD 2<br>Table Grove, IL<br><a href="mailto:cworkman@vit2.org" target="_blank">cworkman@vit2.org</a></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Feb 26, 2018 11:49 AM, "Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association" <<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.<wbr>info</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">We use the program ReadnQuiz and the students take quizzes on the books, but I have the same problem with follow through. I read the students 3 of the books and many teachers read the longer ones out loud and they STILL haven't taken the quizzes to show that they read the book.<div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 26, 2018 at 11:24 AM, Email list for the Illinois School Library Media Association <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:islma@list.railslibraries.info" target="_blank">islma@list.railslibraries.inf<wbr>o</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Does anyone have an awesome way for keeping track of which students have read which Bluestem books? I tried having students answer "What is the book about" and "What was your favorite part", but I'm disappointed about how few students read 5 or more books.</div><div>I think my problem is not that they didn't read the books, but that they didn't take the initiative to fill out the slip (even though it seemed like I reminded them to fill out a slip every single week). How do you do it?</div>-- <br><div class="m_4497692545078517916m_-1410615132859645741m_7729411169200005487gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Emily Adams</font><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Library Media Specialist</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">South Side Elementary School</font></div><div><font face="tahoma, sans-serif">Champaign Early Childhood Center</font></div></div></div>
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