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	Stansbury Park, Utah — Students at Stansbury Park Elementary learn the importance of reading comprehension, while parents rave about their child’s progress. Thank you, Stansbury for sharing your school’s success. We know your students will continue to read and succeed in reaching their challenging goal this year and beyond! SHARE YOUR SUCCESS! Each month, we’ll feature stories from real schools that have put Scholastic Reading Counts! to work. Submit your Scholastic Reading Counts! success story to us today. If we choose your story, you will be able to create your own quiz collection, worth 100 quizzes, for FREE!

	Tips from Stansbury Park Elementary Use Scholastic Reading Counts! across the curriculum Use the SRI reports. I gave it to my students at the beginning of the year to help me determine levels for books. One of the reports has a suggested book list and so I highlighted the books I have in my classroom so that my students had a place to start. After Christmas, I gave it to my students again to let them see their progress and have continued to do so throughout. I also send the reports home to keep parents updated on their children’s progress, which I plan on doing again at the end of the year.   In Scholastic Reading Counts! don’t expect all your students to be at the same level. I used it the first term to see what they could handle, I then adjusted the levels accordingly for the second term. For example, readers who struggled in comprehension were challenged to finish 1 or 2 books during the term. Their goal was to work on passing the test with 90-100%, showing that they understood the book and the importance of focusing on their comprehension.   I use reading counts for my Independent Reading grade, but I have found that if I also throw in 1 or 2 free choice books (books that I might not have quizzes for) along with the points my students must earn-it keeps them excited about reading. This way, they can still read some of the books they love, even if it isn’t on the "list.” Read the full article.

	Check these answers to common user questions for advice on getting the most out of Scholastic Reading Counts! Can a school use the text document produced by the Quiz Extractor for other purposes? Absolutely! Scholastic Reading Counts! users now have the ability to export a list of their installed quizzes to a text document. You can then open the document and customize the list to your liking. To do this, you will need to: Download our Extractor Tool Once you have the extractor tool on your screen, download the appropriate file for either Mac or PC. Once you have downloaded your files, simply use WinZip to expand the file. Once expanded, you will find the Extractor Tool. Double-click on the Extractor Tool icon and it will recognize the location of your files. (If it doesn’t, you can browse your database to find it). Select where you would like to put your quiz list and click ‘Extract’ on Windows or ‘Make List’ on Mac. END RESULT: A text document should be generated allowing you to open, customize the appearance, save, and use as you wish. This will generate a text document allowing you to open, customize the appearance, save, and use as you wish. Search for more technical FAQs. Have a question? Web-chat with our Tech Support team.

 

	“Wide and frequent reading of trade books increases students’ reading achievement.” — J. Cipielewski & J. Stanovich Your students deserve a quality classroom library…and you can provide it to them. Let us help you put together high-quality classroom libraries for all grade levels. For more information on some of our classroom libraries working hard all over the country, follow this link.