Originally Posted by elizabethmom
There's a chart in most AR schools, showing how many points children have completed, again, does this strive for actually learning at all?
One of my favorite fellers, Jim Trelease, author of the "Reading Aloud Handbook," discusses this in his book. Here's a link to his website with a portion of that chapter:
http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/rah-ch5-pg3.html#arq

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