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<blockquote data-quote="helpmehelphim" data-source="post: 24955" data-attributes="member: 2650"><p>My kids did great with- AR. They went to parties and such (one always did and the other sometimes did). The thing I didn't appreciate about AR was that both my kids always tested quite highly on the beginning star test. And then that pidgeon-holed (can I use that term that way) them so that they couldn't read what they wanted to read if they were to meet their AR goals. So, one son loved the Redwall books but couldn't read them because they were under 6 (and there are a ton of them). I ended up saying "forget it" with the AR goal for him and when he balked about the party, I took him to dinner after his reading. I didn't have a problem with- that...there are ages where "fairness" seems to be the deal and I wanted them to read so....I used the system. </p><p></p><p>That same son is now reading Dune and he's in the 6th grade. His AR grade took a hit in school grading but his reading hasn't suffered at all...it's blossomed. Not because of AR, dinners or the like but I think because he read what he liked to read. If he hadn't liked to read then he wouldn't have read... but he wasn't going to miss out on those rewards and ya know, who can blame him?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="helpmehelphim, post: 24955, member: 2650"] My kids did great with- AR. They went to parties and such (one always did and the other sometimes did). The thing I didn't appreciate about AR was that both my kids always tested quite highly on the beginning star test. And then that pidgeon-holed (can I use that term that way) them so that they couldn't read what they wanted to read if they were to meet their AR goals. So, one son loved the Redwall books but couldn't read them because they were under 6 (and there are a ton of them). I ended up saying "forget it" with the AR goal for him and when he balked about the party, I took him to dinner after his reading. I didn't have a problem with- that...there are ages where "fairness" seems to be the deal and I wanted them to read so....I used the system. That same son is now reading Dune and he's in the 6th grade. His AR grade took a hit in school grading but his reading hasn't suffered at all...it's blossomed. Not because of AR, dinners or the like but I think because he read what he liked to read. If he hadn't liked to read then he wouldn't have read... but he wasn't going to miss out on those rewards and ya know, who can blame him? [/QUOTE]
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