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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let her review books on amazon.  It's fun to get other's feedback on your reviews or to see how others have reviewed the same book.  Would be kind of cool to maybe someday spin it into a college admissions thing -- she could say that she was reviewed over 1000 books on Amazon or something.  They rank people by how many reviews they have written and how helpful they were.  She could be the pre-teen harriet Klausner.[/quote]

+1 I’d focus on leveraging her passion into developing another skill - writing. Reading is great and all, but comprehension, discussion, clearly writing opinion pieces, etc, would greatly benefit her in the long term. [/quote]

It's great that she likes the challenge of quizzes, but it sounds like she's already doing great with reading comprehension and doesn't need the external validation of getting the "right answers".

Better to help her find a vehicle to think critically about what she's reading.  Keeping a reading journal is priceless -- a place for her to reflect and articulate her own thoughts and opinions about a book (backing them up with examples), to compare/contrast her current book with other books, themes, and characters she's encountered, to analyze what she liked and what she didn't and all the other thoughts and feelings that came up for her.

Rather than have it structured for her externally (quizzes to answer, prompts from you), encourage her to create her own prompts or choose what she wants to reflect on and write about.  School is sooo structured.  Encourage her to pick out her own cool journal (if she wants to handwrite) or set up a file on the computer if she'd rather type.  But give her lots of space to shape and direct the course of things as she sees fit.

I promise, you'll be giving a far bigger gift than if you found her more reading comp quizzes.  Self-directed learning and critical thinking and analysis skills are so very important, and there's nothing better than developing a more personal relationship with the books we read.

Enjoy!

Encouraging her to do her own analysis and find her own voice is so valuable at this age.  Much more so than scoring well on straight up reading comprehension quizzes (which it sounds like she could do in her sleep at this point.)[/quote]

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