words count reading ar

Anyone under 100,000 words

typically was not passing

assessments.

Cathy Coronado – Atchison Middle School in partnership with Atchison Public Library http://www.heatherbraum.info/conferences/kla/placing-a-hold-on-the-love-of-reading/

Inspiration

Achieving a Standard of Reading Excellence in Kansas By Cindy Pfeiffer

“with the adoption of the Reading Renaissance

principles, students at Pittsburg Community

Middle School have gone from not making

Reading AYP to making the Standard of

Excellence in reading each year since 2007”

Knowledge Quest. March/April 2011

Inspiration

The less kids read, the more slowly

their reading skills improve.

Inspiration

ALA 2013: Attracting Reluctant

Male Readers http://www.yalsa.ala.org/thehub/2013/07/03/

ala-2013-attracting-reluctant-male-readers/

NVHS Data

Raider Reading Challenge

• Yearly Reward

• Read over 500,000 words

• Name in Kindle drawing at end of year

• Quarterly Rewards

• Exceed minimum classroom requirement

• Open seminar time

Raider Reading Wall

College and Career Readiness Report

*Tested over Scarlet Letter

*NOT tested over novel read in class

College and Career Readiness Report

• Nonfiction Reading

College and Career Readiness Report

Writing Own Tests

Determining Reading Level

Marcia Philbrick Librarian

Nemaha Valley High School

Seneca, KS

Google: mcphilbrick@usd115.org / mcphilbrick@gmail.com

Twitter: nvteklib

School Site: http://www.google.com/a/usd115.org/nvbridge

Blog: http://nvlibrary.wordpress.com/