Sometimes, I feel like a superhero who is slowly, but surely understanding the powers that have been bestowed upon me.
So, I'd recently come across a plethora of book quizzes that have been created for the Read 180 classroom. After a bit of research and a few phone calls to Scholastic, I was able to download every quiz available to us, which has opened up access to a large number of mainstream books with which the students are much more familiar!
Let's backtrack a little bit now. In my classroom, I use an online teaching tool known as Class Dojo. I really enjoy its kid-friendly approach to promoting appropriate behaviors in the classroom. It's also a great way to keep parents up to date with what's happening in the classroom in real time. There's an app, etc... Anyway, the point is that I use the points system through Class Dojo to pay my students with my Folkes dollars at the end of each month. With that money, they can purchase classroom rewards or toys I buy from the local Dollar Tree and the sort.
Now that I have opened the doors to Book Quiz Heaven, the children are gunning to make more cash and you better believe I am riding that wave! Finding books more appropriate to our lower level beginning readers is finally an attainable goal. Well, it was before, but now, I can quiz their comprehension of the content more easily. Scholastic has definitely helped me out there.
The kids seem to love the connection between the two programs, and the parents who've signed up in order to stay in the loop really do appreciate the real-time feedback. I just need to get more of them to sign up! See the light, people!
So, I'd recently come across a plethora of book quizzes that have been created for the Read 180 classroom. After a bit of research and a few phone calls to Scholastic, I was able to download every quiz available to us, which has opened up access to a large number of mainstream books with which the students are much more familiar!
Let's backtrack a little bit now. In my classroom, I use an online teaching tool known as Class Dojo. I really enjoy its kid-friendly approach to promoting appropriate behaviors in the classroom. It's also a great way to keep parents up to date with what's happening in the classroom in real time. There's an app, etc... Anyway, the point is that I use the points system through Class Dojo to pay my students with my Folkes dollars at the end of each month. With that money, they can purchase classroom rewards or toys I buy from the local Dollar Tree and the sort.
Now that I have opened the doors to Book Quiz Heaven, the children are gunning to make more cash and you better believe I am riding that wave! Finding books more appropriate to our lower level beginning readers is finally an attainable goal. Well, it was before, but now, I can quiz their comprehension of the content more easily. Scholastic has definitely helped me out there.
The kids seem to love the connection between the two programs, and the parents who've signed up in order to stay in the loop really do appreciate the real-time feedback. I just need to get more of them to sign up! See the light, people!
