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Over at SLJ, Kiera Parrott makes a thorough case against reading levels.
You've now reached the limit of what I know about football.Over at SLJ, Kiera Parrott makes a thorough case against reading levels. I wish I'd had her on hand when we were visiting the children last month. The grandpas had sent eight-year-old Miles some books a few weeks before, mainly Magic Treehouse. When I said something about them he mumbled that they weren't on his Fountas and Pinnell level. His what? At first I thought I couldn't hear, and then I couldn't believe what I was hearing. Why does he even know that? (Although "I'm sorry, it's not on my Fountas and Pinnell level" could become the next great all-purpose excuse.) But in conversation with the lad and his dad, I found out that the two were having a perfectly swell time with a football book, reading aloud shared, at bedtime, level be damned. But leaving me with another dilemma: what do I know about football or football books? Guide God and Goddesses, help me!
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ReAnna
While I don't have a football recommendation for you, I do share your confusion over the reading levels! My son switched schools this year and went from reading whatever was in the classroom library (a nightmare!) to having an actual, assigned reading level (yay!). Now, when I was in grade school, we had the Accelerated Reader program, where we were assigned a level and took computer based quizzes on the books we read, to accumulate points for cheesy prizes. My son on the other hand, has a Lexile level, which I hear is pretty common now? I'm not entirely sure. We got a not-so-small booklet of papers from the school about Lexile testing and levels, etc....I'd really rather have a list of books my child should be reading! :-)Posted : Sep 13, 2017 04:49
Jennifer Schultz
The Jake Maddox books have been very popular--there's a bunch of them that cover different sports. A more modern feel than the Matt Christopher books. Good for those not quite ready for Mike Lupica's books.Posted : Sep 08, 2017 12:50
Elissa
1. Friday Night Lights 2. The ReplacementsPosted : Sep 02, 2017 12:53