Comments on: The Point System http://www.earlyword.com/2009/08/31/the-point-system/ The Publisher | Librarian Connection Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:24:28 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: public librarian http://www.earlyword.com/2009/08/31/the-point-system/#comment-13016 public librarian Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:12:39 +0000 http://www.earlyword.com/?p=18283#comment-13016 AR takes all of the art out of Readers Advisory. My public library does not catalog books in a way that includes their AR number. It's so frustrating to find an interesting book for a student and then find out it isn't in AR or doesn't have enough points. AR takes all of the art out of Readers Advisory. My public library does not catalog books in a way that includes their AR number. It’s so frustrating to find an interesting book for a student and then find out it isn’t in AR or doesn’t have enough points.

]]> By: Far From Zion » Reading like you’ve joined Weight Watchers http://www.earlyword.com/2009/08/31/the-point-system/#comment-12778 Far From Zion » Reading like you’ve joined Weight Watchers Mon, 31 Aug 2009 18:40:07 +0000 http://www.earlyword.com/?p=18283#comment-12778 [...] So I am loving the NY Times’ current series on “The Future of Reading.” As a writer and a librarian, I find it comforting to know that others spend as much (and, in truth, a lot more) time as I do thinking about reading. I especially loved this piece by the novelist Susan Straight on the problems of the Accelerated Reader program, which tries to assign point values to books so that children can be free to choose what they want to read as long as they get to the right number of points (thanks to Lisa Von Drasek for the link). [...] [...] So I am loving the NY Times’ current series on “The Future of Reading.” As a writer and a librarian, I find it comforting to know that others spend as much (and, in truth, a lot more) time as I do thinking about reading. I especially loved this piece by the novelist Susan Straight on the problems of the Accelerated Reader program, which tries to assign point values to books so that children can be free to choose what they want to read as long as they get to the right number of points (thanks to Lisa Von Drasek for the link). [...]

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