Thinking back, one of my favorite books from my childhood would have be The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. I would love when my mom would choose that book to read to me before my bedtime. My Pre-K teacher also used to read it to us and have some of us try and read from it. From that point on I loved books. My parents bought me many books to read and in elementary school we had a program called Reading Counts and you would read books, take quizzes on them and they would give you points. Everyone had to earn a certain amount of points but the kids who earned more got to have pizza parties and small outings. This made kids want to read while also making some kids despise reading if they were not as good readers. Once I got to middle school I started reading the Nancy Drew series of books. They were about mysteries and crimes and she went around solving them.
I enjoyed reading as a child but as I have gotten older and had to read more textbook style books I have been slightly turned away from reading. I have picked it back up in the last year or so and I love to read biographies or books about history.
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Angela, I really enjoyed The Rainbow Fish too, it was by far one of the books I remember most from when I was little. Also, I had a program in our schools that was kind of like your Reading Counts but ours was called A.R. Points and we could earn prizes with our points and such, I really think that inspired students to read more.
ReplyDeleteMy school had a program kind of like "Reading Counts." It was called "Accelerated Reader" and it made a lot of kids hate reading. We had to read books on our level and then take quizzes on them to earn points. If someone wasn't a very good reader, they would have to read a ton of smaller books in order to get enough points, which was really stressful for elementary aged kids. I know the goal was to get kids to read, but I think having a kid's grade depend on how well they read or how many books they can read in 9 weeks was not the way to go.
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