Second Grade Chapter Book Read Alouds - Ranked
Last week each student in my second grade class ranked their top five favorite chapter books that I read aloud during the school year. I totaled their rankings giving 5 points for a 1st place vote, 4 points for a 2nd place vote, etc.
Here are the results from their rankings.
| Rank | Title | Author | Poll Points |
| 1 | Where the Red Fern Grows | Wilson Rawls | 60 |
| 2 | Miles to Go | Miley Cyrus | 57 |
| 3 | Holes | Louis Sachar | 38 |
| 4 | The Tale of Despereaux | Kate DiCamillo | 38 |
| 5 | Shiloh | Phyllis Reynolds Naylor | 28 |
| 6 | Poppy | Avi | 26 |
| 7 | Summer of the Monkeys | Wilson Rawls | 23 |
| 8 | My Side of the Mountain | Jean George | 18 |
| 9 | The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane | Kate DiCamillo | 15 |
| 10 | Stone Fox | John Reynolds Gardiner | 13 |
| 11 | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Barbara Robinson | 13 |
| 12 | Wayside School (series) | Louis Sachar | 12 |
| 13 | Junie B. Jones books (series) | Barbara Park | 9 |
| 14 | Weird School books (series) | Dan Gutman | 4 |
| 15 | Flat Stanley | Jeff Brown | 3 |
| 16 | The Incredible Invention of Hugo Cabret | Brian Selznick | 2 |
| 17 | Scholastic Chapter Book Biographies | Peter Roop | 2 |
| 18 | Now You See Me . . . Now You Don't | Dan Greenburg | 1 |
| 19 | Ready Freddy – The Pumpkin Mystery | Abby Klein | 0 |
In the many years that I have done these end-of-year polls, Where the Red Fern Grows has never finished anywhere but first. Although it was way closer this year than usual, probably in part because I just finished Miles to Go.
Edward Tulane should have finished higher, but I read it a LONG time ago and I think they kind of forget after a while. Also, many students really enjoyed the Wayside School series, but if I separate the three books it's hard to get consistent votes for them since students are only voting their top five overall books. I don't think lumping the three together gives perfect results though either - it sort of takes away from voting for a certain book.
I also read Holes last fall. It must have held up pretty well. It is REALLY good!
Relate post: Steve, Kylee and Makenna rate the chapter book read alouds
Labels: books
posted by Steve Gall at
9:14 AM
2 Comments:
Hi Steve. I'm sorry to post this here, but I saw your question about the table spacing problem in the blogger forums and was unable to respond there (looks like they've disabled commenting on that thread).
Please see this approach:
http://mlawire.blogspot.com/2007/01/table-formatting-in-blogger.html
Thanks mla! I tried the fix found on the page you suggested and it worked. My table in my blog post no longer has extra spaces. Thanks again! Steve
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