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Independent Reading:
Independent Reading:
An important compliment to department curricula is a robust emphasis on independent reading. English teachers regularly bring some of their classes to the library for book talks and selection of fiction. Some Social Studies classes have a fiction component to compliment their course studies. In our book displays we periodically feature the independent reading of our staff members, all in an effort to encourage pleasure reading by the entire NCHS community.
We love this forum for building virtual bookshelves to share with the NCHS community! Each year we build a bookshelf of recommended reads for summer reading. By visiting that shelf students can see lots of reader reviews of the different books and a summary to help them select their summer reading texts. When they are finished reading they can add their review to the community. We have used the GoodReads app to scan all of the books in the English book room onto a GoodReads shelf and then we sorted the shelf by lexile level to provide teachers with a quick reference on text complexity. (More on lexile below.)
Lexile
Lexile
Embedded here is a slideshow we created for the faculty and staff to help with understanding measures of text complexity and pairing students with fiction and non-fiction that they can access independently. In addition to the measures described here, some of the databases to which we subscribe provide reading level information to help students tailor their search results.
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