Just Chapter Books

The continuity and consistency of these chaptered series fiction titles can provide a comforting foundation for emerging and transitional readers.

Pat Scales

CLASSROOM CONNECTIONS Grades 1 to 5 Just Chapter Books The continuity and consistency of these chaptered series fiction titles can provide a comforting foundation for emerging and transitional readers. By Pat Scales I recently asked a second-grade boy what he likes to read. He replied, “Chapter books.” I asked him, “Do you like humor, adventure, or maybe superheroes?” “Just chapter books,” he said. “Well, all books have chapters, except for picture books,” I replied. “Just chapter books,” he said. I understand what this second grader was telling me: he had mastered the I Can Read books and was ready, and maybe even expected, to read longer books with a little more character and plot development. But it appears that this boy had been instructed to read by classification rather than…

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