I have a fun and FREE classroom reading challenge for you! I’ve included a motivation chart, parent letter, and all student materials!
Anyone else feel like their class is starting spring fever waaaaaay too early? OMG. Last week, my students seemed totally disengaged during reading. This may partly be because we have delved deeply into informational book reading and they aren’t reading nearly as much literature as they were a couple of months ago. I feel like their reading stamina is slipping a little because they flipping through books rather than getting lost in them. I decided it is time to reinvigorate! Today I announced our Chapter Book Challenge! The best part for YOU is that you can download all of my materials for this for FREE (info at the bottom of the post).First, I sent home the following letter to parents:
My rules: I require the students to read chapter books at their Fountas & Pinnell level – this includes the level above and the level below (i.e. L, M, N). The student must write a reading response afterwards. The response is aligned to the 2nd grade Common Core standards. An adult must sign it. Sorry kids, no cheatsies!
Me too, but it looks great!
Thanks for letting me know! I just totally forgot the link. Fixed now 🙂
Alyssha
The download says THinking Stems is that?
Thanks for sharing.
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Special Teacher for Special Kids
Try it again…I don't know how that happened…it went to the thinking stems for me as well, but now it seems to be working. Google docs is still a little bit of a mystery to me sometimes 🙂
Alyssha
It worked for me and I love it!! Thank you so much! I have been struggling with getting my students to read books at their level. This definitely may help!
Heather Salsman
Teaching Through Turbulence
This is awesome! Thanks for the freebie!
Jennifer
Teaching to Inspire in 5th
Thanks, It worked! I can't wait to start this tomorrow.
I like this a lot! Thanks so much! Looking forward to having our own class chapter book challenge!
I just started the majority of my second grade students on chapter books and some are doing very well and others are struggling with understanding that it takes a while to read a chapter book and you must follow and understand the story line. I think this will be a great addition to my challenge. I'm not sure if you are aware of this or not but Sylvan Learning Center has a free website where you can have the students take comprehension tests on the books that they are reading. I use this in my classroom to make sure that they are understanding what they are reading and are truly reading it and not just saying that they read it. You might want to check it out. The site is called Book Adventure. I love it and my students do too. Thanks for this freebie. I'll post back to you and tell you how it is going in my classroom with your materials.
Tammy
Mrs. Flickinger's Butterfly Oasis