{"id":780,"date":"2012-08-05T16:01:39","date_gmt":"2012-08-05T21:01:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=780"},"modified":"2015-09-08T13:52:25","modified_gmt":"2015-09-08T18:52:25","slug":"readers-quest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mightylittlelibrarian.com\/?p=780","title":{"rendered":"Reader’s Quest"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m still in the process of hashing out a gaming\/challenge style reading program for this year. Lots of brainstorming has been going on, and I am so grateful that my PLN is full of brilliant and giving people (shout outs to @TKSlibrarian<\/a>, @candidlibrarian<\/a>, and @coxtl<\/a> for their awesomeness!).<\/p>\n

Here’s the background that has led me to this situation: My district uses Accelerated Reader, but I just don’t feel that it’s the best fit for my middle school students. I feel like I was able to help get the elementary AR program<\/a> going in the right direction and I’m proud of the work that was done there, but I’m not getting that same feeling from AR at CMS. I’ve also recently read Donalyn Miller’s The Book Whisperer<\/a>, which is EXACTLY the fit that I feel we need at the middle school!<\/p>\n

Anyway, I guess we aren’t ready to completely scrap AR just yet. And we want to give our kids choices. So kids will have the option to “opt out” of AR for another reading promotion program. Therefore, I needed to create a program. Or rather, get with some other people and steal their ideas — which is what I’m doing!<\/p>\n

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http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/49483751@N02\/7678358152\/<\/a><\/h6>\n

The alternative reading program is going to be called Reader’s Quest (I believe I stole that name from Tamara). Students will have the chance to earn badges such as these:<\/p>\n

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