Ashlyn was excited to go up on stage during the assembly at school today for an award she earned for the Accelerated Reader Program at school...a program that is used all over the country to monitor kids' reading/comprehension as they read books throughout the year.
(Sorry the picture is from behind, my class sits on the front row of assemblies
and that was the angle I happened to be sitting from)
Ashlyn is rarely excited to read, even though she is a great reader - she has to pick library books between 2.5-3.5 grade level - but finally being able to participate in A.R. has given her the motivation she needs. She is the only 1st grader in the school that is at the prize level she earned today, but she still has a ways to go to earn lunch with the principal and even further to go for the end of the year field trip - they have to have 100 points. Considering books kids read at this age are only 0.5 points a piece, that's a LOT of reading! However, she has started reading books like the Magic Tree House series and those books are worth 1 point each, but still. We're just glad we aren't having to fight to do her required 20 minutes of reading each night for homework...prizes are a wonderful motivator!
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