AR Refresher

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AR Refresher

• Have you been using AR to its full capacity?

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Steps to Success

• Individualize
• Monitor
• Use data to take action
• Quality first
• Make success obvious

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Accelerated Reader

• Software
• Renaissance Place
• (Includes STAR READING Assessment STAR EARLY
  LITERACY (new!) Assessment ACCELERATED READER
  and VOCABULARY)
• Allows you to measure and monitor your students
  reading AND VOCABULARY practice

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STAR Reading

• Computer-based assessment of a students overall
  reading ability
• Norm- and criterion-referenced
• Identifies individual reading ranges
• Measures growth

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STAR Early Literacy

• Computer-based assessment for students who are
  not yet reading independently
• Criterion-referenced
• Measures growth in 41 early literacy skills
• Helps you tailor instruction
• Can be administered monthly

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Best Practices

• Teaching strategies that maximize the power of
  Accelerated Reader and lead to reading growth for
  every student

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Getting Started

• Understand Accelerated Reader, STAR Reading, and
  STAR Early Literacy
• Find the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) for
  each student
• Schedule time for daily reading practice
• Read To
• Read With
• Read Independently

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Monitoring

• Students complete the Student Reading Log daily
• Teachers
• Take Status of the Class daily
• Check the TOPS Report immediately after each
  student quiz
• Review the Diagnostic Report weekly to determine
  the level of student and class implementation

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Intervention and Enrichment

• Intervene promptly with struggling readers to
  ensure successful reading
• Set individual student reading goals
• Create a system of motivators to encourage
  students to reach their goals

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Understanding AR, STAR, and SEL

• Accelerated Reader
• Student reads a book, takes a quiz on the
  computer, and reports immediately print to
  indicate the level of success. Also includes
  Vocabulary and Literacy Tests.
• STAR Reading
• Student takes a test on the computer and reports
  immediately indicate the reading level
• STAR Early Literacy
• Computer reads a test to the student and reports
  immediately indicate pre-reading skillsthose
  mastered and those that need to be mastered

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Find and Use the ZPD

• ZPD Zone of Proximal Development
• Book level range appropriate for the students
  reading ability
• Use STAR Reading to identify each students ZPD
• Then examine the following to assist students in
  book choice for their ZPD
• AR book level (readability)
• Interest level (grade appropriateness)
• Point value (length and difficulty)/ Word Count
  (use ARBOOKFIND.COM)

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Schedule Time for Reading Practice

• Daily monitored in-class reading time
• Students read their AR books as teacher guides
  the reading
• Read To
• Read With
• Read Independently
• 20, 30, 60 minutes per day
• Goals based on in-class reading time

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Students Complete Reading Logs

• Each independent reader records daily the AR book
  she is reading
• Level
• Points
• Fiction/nonfiction
• Pages read
• Quiz score
• Teacher initials daily and writes comments as
  needed

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Monitor with Status of the Class

• Brief, daily, one-on-one conferences with
  students concerning their reading
• During Status of the Class
• Review reading log
• Check understanding of current book
• Detect, diagnose, and solve problems

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Check TOPS Report Immediately

• TOPS Report indicates a students results on the
  quiz and results for the marking period and for
  the year
• First opportunity for intervention and
  recommendation
• Essential for student success
• Examine after each quiz to determine student
  progress

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Review Diagnostic Report Weekly

• Diagnostic Report shows performance of every
  student in a class
• Examine weekly for students at risk and classroom
  totals
• Highlights students that need immediate
  intervention
• See them immediately during Status of the Class

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Guide Students to Success

• Goal average 85 correct or higher on Reading
  Practice Quizzes
• Demonstrates comprehension of books read
• Leads to reading growth
• 100 correct is powerful
• Intervene if student scores less than 80 on a
  quiz or averages below 85

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Set Goals with Each Student

• Setting goals encourages self-directed learning
• Average percent correct (85 or higher)
• Points (based on reading level and length of
  practice)
• Book level (based on STAR scores)
• Use Goal-Setting Chart as a guideline
• Record goals in the computer and on the Student
  Reading Plan
• Accelerated Reader keeps track of students
  progress toward goals

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Keep Students Motivated

• Offer praise and encouragement
• Demonstrate your enthusiasm for reading
• Help ensure successits the greatest motivator
• Celebrate achievement
• Celebrate each goal met (i.e.100 first book
  read mixture of authors/genres/ fiction-non
  fiction, etc)

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Remember the Steps to Success

• Individualize (goal setting)
• Monitor (TOPS/Status of the class)
• Use data to take action (Diagnostic Report)
• Quality first (average 85 and above)
• Make success obvious (motivate)