The description below was contributed by: A visitor, on May 30, 2000 11:40:11PM Tip Rating
Appropriate grades or age groups: Elementary School Middle School
Estimated time to complete activity or implement technique: Year long activity
Materials needed (if applicable):
Computer disk and grade appropriate books
Activity set-up/instructions or description of technique:
We have a program at our school called Accelerated Reader. Students read a book at their reading level. When they are done reading the book, they take a 10 question multiple choice comprehension test on the computer. Each book is assigned a certain amount of points, depending on the difficulty of the book. In order to earn points, the students must get at least 7 out of 10. The students use their points to buy items off of a point cart. Some examples are pencils, pens, books, highlighters etc.