Always checking books out before leaving the classroom.
What is responsibility?
100
An book that's a little "too hard" for you to read.
What is a Challenge Book?
100
Books written by an author about himself or herself.
What is memoir or autobiography?
100
The score needed in April to exit for a sixth grader?
What is 950?
100
Never do this during class!
What is sharpen a pencil?
200
Avoiding making any noises during silent reading?
What is Respect?
200
It's when you stop reading a book you don't enjoy.
What is "dropping" or "abandoning" a book?
200
Novels that take place in a modern setting with characters who seem like the students in this room.
What is Realistic Fiction?
200
The score needed in April to exit as a seventh-grader.
What is 1000?
200
You can always do this...but it's really great if you return it, too.
What is borrow a pencil?
300
Nightly reading of a book in your Lexile range.
What is Responsibility and/or Excellence and/or Integrity and/or Respect...for yourself!!
300
A book that is about 100 below and 50 above your Lexile range.
What is a "Just Right" book?
300
Novels about another period in time.
What is Historical Fiction?
300
The score an 8th grader needs to exit in April.
What is 1050?
300
Something you almost always need on your desk when the bell rings.
What is a pencil?
400
Striving to do your best at all times...even during the SRI test.
What is Excellence?
400
In addition to reading the front and back covers and any text on the inside flaps of the covers, you should also read this to find out if you are interested in the writing.
What is a Sample Page?
400
Novels about people who are from cultures other than mainstream US culture.
What is Multi-Cultural Fiction?
400
A score that indicates your reading comprehension, but which has nothing to do with how "smart" or "pretty" or "amazing" you are.
What is Lexile?
400
Where Mrs. Bennett went to college.
What is Eastern Washington University?
500
Filling in your blue bookmark with your actual reading, not just writing down 20 minutes per day.
What is Integrity?
500
Using your fingers to count the vocabulary words you don't know.
What is The Five-Finger Method?
500
Books filled with true facts.
What is non-fiction?
500
One year of growth for a typical reader.
What is 75 to 100 Lexiles?
500
Mrs. Bennett hates this! She will say something about it if you use too much tape. Or too much paper. It's the reason she re-uses paper that is printed on one side.