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Teaching and Tapas

| by Alyssha Swanson

Class Reading Challenge (FREEBIE!!!)

by alyssha@teachingandtapas.com

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!

After reading the book and completing the book response, the student writes their initials in one of the boxes.
I did come up with a list of the following rules to make sure everyone participates fairly:
I expect this challenge to take about three to four weeks. Perfect timing for when we get back from Spring Break. When they have it completed, I have a special surprise in mind. But…I actually can’t say what I am doing because I have students who check out my page! I love ’em but those rascals can’t be trusted with top secret info like that 🙂
This has worked wonders for me in the past and I am happy to share it with you and your Spring Fever lil’ munchkins! Click here to download it for free (google doc). All I ask is that you commiserate with me 🙂 Enjoy!

 

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Comments

  1. lcooney says

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    Me too, but it looks great!

  2. - Alyssha says

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    Thanks for letting me know! I just totally forgot the link. Fixed now 🙂

    Alyssha

  3. Special Teacher for Special Kids says

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    The download says THinking Stems is that?

    Thanks for sharing.

    Iteachkidsabc@gmail.com
    :o) V.
    Special Teacher for Special Kids

  4. - Alyssha says

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    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

  5. Heather S. says

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    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

  6. Jennifer Findley says

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    This is awesome! Thanks for the freebie!
    Jennifer
    Teaching to Inspire in 5th

  7. TN Teacher says

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    Thanks, It worked! I can't wait to start this tomorrow.

  8. Cindy in Wisconsin says

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    I like this a lot! Thanks so much! Looking forward to having our own class chapter book challenge!

  9. Tammy says

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    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

MEET ALYSSHA

I am a reading teacher and traveler at heart. I spent most of my teaching career abroad, teaching in international schools (most recently: Spain). I am now back in the good 'ol USA, helping teachers figure out how to make reading instruction simple and fantastically effective. Take a peek around and contact me if you have questions! Read More…

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