Reading A-Z is another component of my reading program I am doing this year. As you have noticed, students have a green folder that goes home daily and comes back to school daily, too. Students are placed on their own reading level and have a week to read the story and understand it. As they are reading it at home, I am also reading it with them at school, too. Every Friday students take a quiz over that story.

Along with this, students have the opportunity to earn a bubble gum ball to put in our classroom bubble gum ball machine. When the machine is full, students get to choose from a pizza party, extra recess, or a dessert buffet. This is a great motivator for my students and they really enjoy seeing the machine get full. Students can earn a bubble gum ball by getting an 80% or above on their A-Z Story.

Another part of this folder is the fluency section.On Monday I take a cold timing, which is when students read it for the first time seeing the text, and then after the students have practiced all week I take a hot timing at the end of the week. They also graph this, as you have seen in their folder. They color the Monday timings blue and the hot timings red. What I am looking for are the blue bars to keep going up. This will show me that students are improving their reading fluency.