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Accelerated Reading Program (AR) is a school wide
program that encourages reading.
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The first thing students need to do to get into AR is read at
least five of our supplemental readers that your child received at
the beginning of the year - or if they begin the school year
reading level F in our guided reading books.
The next step is for your child to take a STAR test which gives
me their reading level. If they score 1.0 or higher they can
begin AR testing. The STAR test is actually quite difficult. It
is a timed test and your child has to be able to read questions
and answer with the correct answer (all this is done on the
computer).
Once your child passes the STAR test, they will begin bringing
home an AR book from the library. Your job is to listen to your
child read their book and then ask them questions. Please make
sure your child knows all the words in the book. Once you feel
they are ready, (this does not have to be the next day), they
can bring the book back to school and test on it. (If the book is
too hard, they DON'T HAVE TO TEST!!) Then they go back to
the library and get another book. The test consists of five
multiple choice questions and assesses the student's
comprehension of the book.
Students are rewarded if they meet their individual goal which is
determined by how well they do on the STAR test. If they
meet their goal with 85% accuracy, then they are rewarded with
a sticker on our chart. Please keep in mind that most of the
quizzes only have five questions. If your child misses one
question, that is 80% accuracy - it's OK sometimes, but if they
continuously miss one question, their accuracy will not be 85%.
This year, the library has changed the reward system.
Students in grade one, will need to earn 75 points or more with
85% accuracy in comprehension to receive a trophy at the end of
the year. Students earning at least 50 points will earn a medal.
This is great for our students who don't start AR at the
beginning of the year.
**Our goal is to make life long readers! If your child is already
a reader and is getting stressed out by AR - please do not push
them. Let them read the books that interest them - AR or
not. Meeting their goal and getting points and so on is not as
important as learning that reading is fun! I actually encourage
all AR readers to pick other books of interest as well as AR
books - please do the same.
Remember it only takes 15 minutes of reading a night to make
your child a successful reader. Let's make it a positive
experience.
Press on the link below to find out what tests we have for AR
books.
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