Each Reading Practice Quiz consists of 5, 10, or 20 multiple-choice questions depending on book level and length. They are available in English, Spanish, and Recorded Voice formats. Should AR be used as a grade? Yes, we use AR as part of their grade. I record their test average weekly. We don't use the points as part of their grade, but they do have individual point goals that they are expected to reach each week. If they do, they get to have Celebration on Friday.
How is accelerated reader used in the classroom? The top 10 classroom practices for Renaissance. Find the Zone of Proximal. Use the Student Reading Log. Use either a reading log or the TOPS report for recording immediate feedback after each quiz taken.
How do I find my AR answers? Accelerated Reader test answers are available by logging into the classroom management system of the teacher account.
We ceased using a few other technologies as well, each for different reasons. The following timeline provides a basic outline of our process that led to this outcome. The idea of collective commitments comes from the Professional Learning Community literature, specifically Learning by Doing, 3rd edition.
Collective commitments are similar to norms you might find on a team. The difference is collective commitments are focused on student learning. We commit to certain statements about our work on behalf of kids. We first started by reading one of four articles relevant to our work.
The staff could choose which one to read. After discussing the contents of the articles in small group and then in whole group, we started crafting the statements. This was a smaller team of self-selected faculty. Staff who did not participate knew they may have to live with the outcomes of this work.
Through lots of conversation and wordsmithing, we landed on seven statements that we all felt were important to our future work. At the next staff meeting, we shared these commitments, answered any questions about their meaning and intent, and then held an anonymous vote via Google Forms. In other words, what does the will of the group say? Although there were a few faculty members that could not find a statement or two to be agreeable, the vast majority of teachers were on board.
I shared the results while explaining that these statements were what we all will commit to, regardless of how we might feel about them. This meant that students needed to be reading and writing a lot more than they were, and to do so independently. Our instructional leadership team, which is a decision-making body and whose members were selected based on in-house interviews, started making plans to provide professional development for all faculty around the reading-writing connection.
Now that we had collective commitments along with a focus on literacy, I think our lens changed a bit. The program allows parents to do the following:. Accelerate Reader has about a dozen fully customizable reports. These include diagnostic reports, history reports; quiz usage reports, student point reports, and many more. Accelerated Reader allows you to receive automatic software updates and upgrades. It provides live chat support to answer questions and provide immediate resolution to any issues or problems you have with the program.
Accelerated Reader also provides software and data hosting. Accelerated Reader does not publish their overall cost for the program. However, each subscription is sold for a one-time school fee plus an annual subscription cost per student.
There are several other factors that will determine the final cost of the programming including the length of the subscription and how many other Renaissance Learning programs your school has. To date, there have been research studies that support the overall effectiveness of the Accelerated Reader program. The consensus of these studies is that Accelerated Reader is fully supported by scientifically based research. Observations show that this program benefits many students, but the overuse of this program can also burn many students out.
This speaks more to how the teacher is using the program than it does to the overall program itself. The fact that the program allows teachers to quickly and easily assess whether a student has read a book and the level of understanding they have from the book is a valuable tool. Overall, the program is worth four out of five stars. Accelerated Reader can have immense benefits for younger students but can lack in maintaining its overall benefits as students get older.
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During the first step, the student will read a book, magazine, or textbook. When the student is done reading the book, the student will take a quiz that corresponds with the book they just read. Once the student takes the quiz, AR will assign a point value that is based on the overall level of the book.
With these points, students will be able to buy prizes that the teacher offers. As of today, there over , quizzes in the system that is available to the students. In addition to the database, teachers and faculty are able to create their own quizzes and choose books that may be applicable to the subject matter of the classroom.
For the school version, there is Live Chat Support included, plus two getting-started web seminars and access to the renaissance training center. There is customer service available for those schools that might need assistance in getting started with Accelerated Reader.
As for the quizzes that students have to take, the inclusions are Vocabulary Practice, Reading Practice, and Literacy Skills.
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