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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">Just a thought/question.... I no longer make them "prove" they read the books. I also don't do parties or prizes...... I just don't want to be one more "have to" in the lives of our kiddos.</span>
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<span style="font-family: helvetica; font-size: 12pt;">My voting is the same or more robust without all the bells and whistles most years (this year is NOT typical).</span>
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On 04/08/2021 5:29 PM Kathy Kibitlewski via AISLE <aisle@list.railslibraries.info> wrote:
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</div> In the past I used the Bluestem Bookmarks created on the AISLE site and had kids check off the titles they read and passed quizzes on, (we use the Reading Counts program), then they would turn the bookmarks in to me by a deadline. The bookmarks were kept in the library in folders by class and the kids would update their bookmark every time they finished a book. This year I used a Google Form for them to submit the books they read and passed quizzes on. It was very easy to use and the results were easy to check and sort by classroom on a spreadsheet. I had the form linked in Destiny Discover and on my web page. The form was easy to make because I started with the voting form provided by the Bluestem committee, made a copy and just added a couple of other questions for the kids to fill out. It was nice because the voting form that was already created had pictures of all the books already included. I just needed to make them check boxes instead of a multiple choice question.
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<a href="https://heyelemlibrary.weebly.com/5th-grade-bluestem.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener" shape="rect">grid on my library webpage</a>. Clicking on a book cover opens a Google Form. Once the Form replies come in, I have set it up to auto-send to a
<u>single</u> google spreadsheet so that I can sort by title, student name, grade, or teacher. Works like a charm! The set-up takes a couple of hours, but I do it in the summer. Once the set-up is complete, I do not have to do ANYTHING all year except look at the spreadsheet results! Score!!
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I tried an online form for Bluestem reading tracking this year to very mixed success at my 3 - 5 school. We're using Microsoft Teams and I made a form where students could submit a record for each book read. It was hard to remember what they'd already submitted and the younger students couldn't remember how to do it. Last year we had a packet with pictures of the books that they had to have initialled by their grown ups after they completed them. It worked alright!
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