I love that our elementary teachers are going to start using her ideas next school year with the GCISD 25 Book Challenge. I went to the public library with my children this weekend. We signed up for the summer reading challenge. I was surprised and disappointed that the challenge was for them to read 50 books over the summer. The challenge started on May 29th, when HEBISD ended school. Since GCISD didn't end until a week later, we didn't get started until June 8th. My kids read 100-150 page books...5000 pages in less than 2 months seems pretty ridiculous. We checked out some shorter books in an effort to at least attempt to reach 50. What I love about Donalyn Miller is that her 40 book challenge (for a whole school year) isn't a pass/fail kind of thing. My girls were disappointed in learning that they were expected to read 50 books in ~50 days...if they don't, they don't get the prize, but they do get to have enjoyed reading lots of books. At Silver Lake we challenged our kids to read 11 books and 1 magazine over the summer. I think maybe the public librarians need to take a reality check!
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