What Do You Want to Be When You Grow Up?

Overview

Every student has hopes and dreams. In their own words, 5th graders at Clear Creek Elementary in Killeen ISD share their ambitions and why they love learning with Learning A-Z. In the Kids A-Z student portal, fun incentives motivate kids to read and continue to level up their skills.

Transcript

>> When I grow up, I want to be a weather person, so a meteorologist.

>> Well, I kind of want to be like in the Army, like my dad.

>> When I grow up, I want to be either an artist, or I want to play in the NBA.

>> I want to be a scientist, because I really love science.

>> I want to be an author one day so that kids can read my books.

>> We use Learning A to Z to, like, read and do our vocabulary assignments.

>> We'll either read our paper books, or do Reading A to Z, and then we'll do a book on there.

>> We use it every day. Sometimes she assigns stuff for science, sometimes for reading, sometimes for social studies.

>> I really love the assignments. When it gets on to the vocabulary and the spelling --

>> Or if our teacher wants to find the main idea in the book that we're reading, I can just find the highlighter, and I can highlight and take my notes and stuff.

>> After you read the book, you get stars as well. And then you could like do a quiz to earn more stars.

>> Sometimes, like, I read a book and it levels me up, and I just want to keep on leveling up, because I like having a high level. And also, when I get a lot of stars for leveling up and stuff, I can customize my avatar.

>> Reading A to Z is a great way to show them how fun reading can be. Like, when I read, it's like a key to another world.