Post on 07-Jan-2016
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A New Dimension
A software program that helps manage reading practice, monitor daily progress and plan instruction.
What is Accelerated ReaderWhat is Accelerated Reader?
1Step One: Choose A Step One: Choose A
BookBook
Fiction Non-Fiction
2Step Two: Read a Step Two: Read a
BookBook
3Step Three: Take a Step Three: Take a
TestTest
Web-based Accelerated Reader Program
What Is Renaissance What Is Renaissance PlacePlace??
Build strong, confident, enthusiastic readers
Create a culture of reading across your school.
Increase library circulation.
Why Use Best Practices?
Principals Teachers Librarians Coordinators
Create an AR Team
Team RolesTeam RolesPrincipal
Lead, build consensus, facilitate
TeachersAct as primary student
contact
Librarians
Librarians build school-wide culture of literacy,
customer service, pushing books, and PR.
1. Getting Started (Steps 1-3)2. Establishing Routines and Monitoring
Progress (Steps 4-7)3. Diagnosing Problems, Setting Goals,
and Motivating Students (Steps 8-10)
Accelerated Reader Ten Best Classroom
Practices
Getting Started
1. Understand Accelerated Reader and STAR Reading Assessments.
2. Administer the STAR Reading Assessment to find the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD).
3. Schedule Time for Reading Practice.
Establishing Routines &Monitoring Progress
4. Use the Student Reading Log.5. Take Status of the Class
daily.6. Check the TOPS Report
immediately.7. Review the Diagnostic
Report Weekly.
Diagnosing Problems, Setting Goals,
and Motivating Students8. Intervene promptly to ensure
successful reading9. Set students reading goals10.Create a System of
Motivators
• Motivation• Daily Monitoring & Guidance• Time for Guided Reading Practice• Immediate Feedback
What Happens in an What Happens in an AR Classroom?AR Classroom?
What Happens in an What Happens in an AR Library?AR Library?
•Support reading practice and student goals
•Provide easy access to books•Acquire books to match ZPD interests, and instructional needs•Assess collection and respond to needs
Have you been using AR to its full
capacity?
Teaching strategies that maximize the power of Accelerated
Reader - lead to reading growth for every student.
What are Best Practices?What are Best Practices?
Understand Accelerated Reader
• ZPD•ATOS•Reading Logs•Status of Class•Points•Percent of Goal•TOPS
Common AR TermsCommon AR Terms
Understand STAR Reading Assessments
•Computer-based assessment of a student’s overall reading ability•Norm and criterion referenced•Identifies individual reading ranges•Measures growth•Administered a few times a year
• Provides a grade-equivalent (GE) reading level and identifies a “ZPD”
• Gives you a starting point• Each test takes about 10 minutes• Provide a quiet, nondisruptive test
environment (try computer lab)
Key Reports Diagnostic—gives a student’s test
results Reading Range—suggests a reading
range (ZPD) for each student ( good for teacher)
STAR Growth—shows progress for a group of students over time
Multiple-choice questions• 20-25 in-context vocabulary items• 5 text passages for grades 3-up• Question difficulty based on previous
answers (computer-adaptive)
•Computer-based assessment for students not yet reading independently•Criterion referenced•Measures growth in 41 early-literacy skills•Helps tailor instruction•Can be administered monthly
STAR ReadingSTAR Reading• Two or three times in a school year
STAR Early LiteracySTAR Early Literacy• At least three to five times this school
year• Can administer monthly
• Quiz Scores• Points earned• Book levels