Nightly Reading and Accelerated Reader
Nightly Reading for a non-AR student is expected to be 15 - 20 minutes each night. Your child may bring home books for the week each Monday in their Reading Bag. It is up to you how many books you want to read each night. You may want to read each one every night or just one or two a night. It's okay if you RE-read a book during the week. Remember, one strategy to becoming a fluent reader is re-reading familiar passages! Student Reading Logs should be initialed nightly and returned. If your child is currently on AR, they will bring home 1-2 book as they read them at home, then they will test at school. Student Reading Logs are to be initialed nightly and returned. The Reading Log will be used to assist in taking the Accelerated Reader tests.
What is Accelerated Reader?
As a progress-monitoring system that promotes guided independent reading practice, Accelerated Reader serves three primary purposes:
• AR provides quick and accurate assessments of whether students have read and understood trade books that they have selected and textbook passages that have been assigned to them.
• It assigns point values for each AR Reading Practice Quiz taken. Point values area factor of book level and performance on quizzes. Points accumulate during the school year, and are a way for teachers to monitor students’ reading volume.
• The system tracks student performance on AR quizzes over time. AR provides a way for educators to monitor and guide reading practice and ensure success for their students through goal setting.