With our K-4 elementary school, we do not allow teachers to take grades or require that students receive a certain amount of points per nine weeks. I thought this article was insightful because it came from a parents point of view. I too have seen so many of our students only driven to read by the amount of points they receive. What will these students do one day when there is no reward or incentive to entice them to read? Will the students still have a love for reading? My eyes are definitely being opened to many more negative aspects of the Accelerated Reader program than I had discovered previously.
Reading by the Numbers
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