The class reading tally, on the board

How it works

1. Numbers, not names. Give each child a number (their seat, or their place on the register). Print the key from the tally and write the names on it: the paper key is the only place the names go.
2. Add as they read. Tap + on a child's number when they show you a finished book. Children who use Peabody's reading challenges can tap “Show my teacher” on their own device: it shows their number and their count, big, and sends nothing. Type it in, or tap it in.
3. Show it on the board. “Show on the board” fills the projector with the class total in big numbers and a picture climbing toward the class goal. Each number's own count shows only if you ask, in seat order and never sorted, so it stays an honour count and not a race.
4. Keep it going. Every tap is saved on this device. “Save to a file” carries it to another computer or keeps last term; “Open a file” picks it up again.
5. Print and finish. Print the filled-in wall chart and the totals, a certificate for every reader who reached the goal (you write the names), and clear everything from the device at the end.

Prefer paper? The blank class challenge wall chart is the same chart, thirty rows of ten squares, to colour by hand.

What Peabody keeps

Nothing. The numbers are kept in this browser on this device, and the file you save goes where your downloads go. Peabody never sees a code, a count or a name, and children never type: they tap their number on a big number pad, and it stays on their own device.