Accelerated Reader

the twins would pay for this severely? Our small school had really began to focus on the importance of reading and it was heavily emphasized throughout the elementary and middle school, regardless of what grade you were assigned to teach. The Accelerated Reader program was and is sill to this day a supplemental program used to motivate students to read with a reward system set up for students if they achieve individual or group…

As a child, learning to read and write was an important step in life. Our parents and schools made sure reading and writing was a part of our daily routine. Accelerated Reader-Renaissance Learning or AR, was how our teachers persuaded us to read. They made us take a reading test at the beginning of the school year that determined our reading level and what our AR goal would be. Each year our goal got higher and higher. We were to read a book, then take a ten question quiz over it in order to…

POV immerses the reader in the story, as they experience the events from a close emotional distance, which is more effective than if the POV was second or third person. First person POV gives the paragraph a sense of mystery, as the narrator is the focus, not their five companions, limiting…

POV immerses the reader in the story, as they experience the events from a close emotional distance, which is more effective than if the POV was second or third person. First person POV gives the paragraph a sense of mystery, as the narrator is the focus, not their five companions, limiting…

that good will triumph over evil. There is much use of the traditional and original fairytale terms throughout the novel for example “Once upon a time which is all times and no time but not the very best of times, there was a castle” through this the reader is able to remember the original fairytales told to them in their childhood and therefore can relate to Becca and her sisters (Sylvia and Shana)when they eagerly listen to their grandmother in chapter 2. 'tell us seepin boot'. Jane Yolen also…

next thing the mother notices is the stocky man with long messy hair and "hair hanging from his chin like a kinky mule tail" (878). Walker then spells out the sound that Maggie makes as she sees the male friend. She says, "Uhnnnh," which gives the reader a sense of disgust at the thought of the inappropriate look of the man's hygiene. The mother then comes back to Dee as she describes what she is wearing. She gets out of the car in a very bright orange and yellow dress with gold earrings down to…

essay ‘Pick One’ is an eloquent essay filled with imagery, symbolic language and sensory details that bring the reader into Matthew’s world, but is lacking in some structural aspects and leaves the reader without a satisfactory conclusion. His vocabulary notwithstanding, Matthew’s essay is spectacularly descriptive and easily conveys the atmosphere he felt as a child as he takes his readers through the experience he is sharing. There are areas, however, that could be analyzed as outside the…

from factual to sentimental to reminiscent in order to appeal to the reader. Brittain’s writing style and use of clips of her journal and letters she saved…

One of the most common questions asked to kids is “What do you want to be when you grow up?” Many times in response to this kids will answer with a typical dream job: “I want to be a Firefighter!” However, we can look at that same kid twenty years down the road and find them in a cubicle slaving over spread sheets as opposed to bursting into burning buildings to save lives. The question is why? Why would someone give up his exciting dream job in favor of something so monotonous and ordinary? If…

conclusion would be left of to a reader 's imagination. Due to the vitality of endings, readers must evaluate them based one whether or not they do a fine job at concluding the story instead of whether the ending is happy or not. In The October Killings by Wessel Ebersohn, the ending takes place over three chapters. In these chapters the story sometimes succeeds and sometimes does not succeed at explaining what happens to all of the characters. Throughout the book, the reader…