Students reading books by the hundreds

Thursday, January 19, 2012

Students in the Reading Zone in room 119

In quarter one, when students were just getting used to the idea that they'd entered a class where they read every day and would set very ambitious reading goals, we combined to read 610 books.

I told students how thrilled I was, even though that number put us just off the pace for our year-long 2,500 book challenge. 

They quickly rose to the occasion.

In quarter two, my students read an astounding 757 books. That's an average of nearly 7 feature-length books per student in one 9-week grading period, in many genres.

With that phenomenal dedication to reading, my students have now combined to read 1,367 books, in a little over four months of this school year.


Kudos to these young readers, as they build this most important lifelong skill.