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Petunia
By hescollin

Read plays. Choral readings. Charlottes Web is the best of the best. The Trumpet Swan is also good. Students love animal books. Oh there are so many good books. Read Stone Soup and students bring cans of vegetables
to put in a large oven roaster. Put in lots of potatos to make it go along ways. Potatoes are cheap. It smells so good cooking and have a bowl of soup for everyone. Request that some bring broth. I like chicken broth best. Act out the story.

Whisper Phones ---make with Plastic PC pipe two curve pieces and a short straight piece to connect will look like a telephone receiver.

Students talk into the end and with the other end to their ear. They can hear themselves as they whisper read.

A big basket of bookmarks. A pad of sticky notes, buy some bookmarks, and make some use clip art on colored paper and laminate.

Have Scholastic forms so students can order books and you will earn free books for your library.

Are your books leveled? Leveling books.
www.renlearn.com AR click on quizzes. In the blank type in author or use the arrow button and go to author and type in author. Tells the points the books is worth, grade level and etc.
This an excellent site, also…. http://src.scholastic.com/ecatalog/default.asp?

http://www.emints.org/ethemes/resources/S00001316.shtml

http://www.crcs.k12.ny.us/itr/gr/grl...t.asp?start=61.

http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/

there is a sizeable list of leveled readers and trade books at www.arliteracymodel.com

http://home.comcast.net/~ngiansante/

http://registration.beavton.k12.or.us/lbdb/

All AR books are kept together and other books are together along the other wall. First and Second grade room books are kept in plastic baskets. 3rd , 4th, 5tth, 6th and etc are on shelves. In the reading room K or emergent readers and first, second and third levels are kept in baskets and others on shelves. There are only AR books in the reading room. We have a reading room and reading teacher, she gives extra reading help. This is like a library. Students Star test in the reading room (4 computers) and in their classrooms. All the classrooms have three or four computers. AR dots. Green=1.0 to 1.5, Blue 1.6 to 2.0, Red 2..1 to 2.5, Yellow 2.6 to 3.0, Orange 3.1 to 4.0, I can’t remember until I go back to school the other colors. We use the same colors for all classrooms for that level. Reading room, LD room and classrooms all have the same color for the same level. All books have the wrap around AR label with the book number, level and points it is worth. And the dot is just above this label along the edge, so you can see the level at a quick glance. Use clear shipping tape to cover and protect the labels. And keep the dots from popping off. *****buy the wrap around labels at the AR site. www.renlearn.com 3 ľ by 1 ˝ , click on On Line Store---yellow spot, the green box, next click on reading, next click on AR and go down to the AR Handwritten book labels, Pack of 100……
*******If you have lots of books than divide the levels into more baskets. And this will depend on how many books you have for each subject. Mice, Earth, Birthday, Jobs, Christmas, Filmstrip, Fairy Tales, Curious George, Bears, Eggs, Mystery, Dinosaurs and Monsters, Animals, Cats and Dogs, Holidays, Eric Carle, (Clifford, Amelia Bedilla, Arthur) Birds, Horses, Pond, Halloween, Thanksgiving, Rain forest, and etc….. If you have more questions let me know…. I don’t think there is any right way or wrong way. Just whatever works for you….

* Teach them www.bookadventure.com. Some students love to read the books and then take the bookadventure.com reading comprehension test. It tracks points earned and some kids really like this. If you have an accelerated reader program in your school it works the same way.

Wow This is long....