Accelerated Reading Book Reflection

i helped in the first grade classroom at Mackay Elementary School by separating Accelerated Reading books and non Accelerated Reading books. I looked up and checked the books they were labeled with their reading levels and put on shelves for the students to read. Accelerating Reading books, which are books that the first graders and other students can read and take quizzes on, to help check students understanding of the book that he or she has read. Accelerated Reading books are grade level books, by being grade level books it makes it easier for students to read and understand the book. They use these points to get rewards at the point store. Students get points for the books they read. They usually get half a point for every book …show more content…
They have several centers to promote reading skills, these can be games that are purchased or made by teachers or volunteers. I helped to develop a journal for tracking books read by the students. They will be rewarded with stickers. I helped give the students reading buddies that they could snuggle and read with. The students loved having reading buddies. The reading buddies are for the children to keep. These journals also helps the teacher to see each student's process in reading and the given amount of books that they record they have read. This will help my future career because I will know how to encourage my students and their parents to read every night. This makes people more accountable for reading nightly. I learned that by sending home a graph that shows the benefits of reading daily with your child to help the parents realize how important reading daily is. The more minutes read nightly will increase the child’s educational abilities. I also learned how to play different reading games to help build the students reading fluency. This makes it fun and gives them hands on ways to help them remember the different skills they will need to develop to be great readers. It is fun to see the excitement when a child learns how to read. It opens many