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Accelerated Reader Session Goals

Accelerated Reader Session Goals. Participants will: Understand and implement Accelerated Reader in the Literacy Block Incorporate Accelerated Reader using Best Practices. Effect of Accelerated Reader on OAT Scores.

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Accelerated Reader Session Goals

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  1. Accelerated Reader Session Goals Participants will: • Understand and implement Accelerated Reader in the Literacy Block • Incorporate Accelerated Reader using Best Practices

  2. Effect of Accelerated Reader on OAT Scores Students who participated in Accelerated Reader scored, on average, 3.76 points higher on the 2008-2009 Reading OAT than their peers who had not participated in Accelerated Reader. Did you Know?

  3. Differences in OAT scores could be directly attributed to the number of books on which students had completed Accelerated Reader quizzes. For each completed book and quiz, reading scores increased, on average, by .147 points. The difference in scores observed for students who participated in Accelerated Reader raised the average scaled score in Reading on the OAT for the District by nearly 2 scaled points. - Dr. Russell Brown, July 2009 CMSD Senior Executive, Research & Assessment The Impact of AR on OAT

  4. Primary Goals of AR • Enable students to practice at a personalized level and pace • Accelerate growth in reading ability • Foster a love of reading in all students • Improve test scores

  5. Turn and Talk • Turn to your neighbor and share your experiences with using Accelerated Reader in your classroom • Be prepared to share your successes and challenges with the group

  6. Getting Started • Administer the STAR assessment • Analyze the STAR Diagnostic Report • Identify each student’s ZPD level

  7. STAR Diagnostic Report

  8. Getting Started, Cont. • Implement Accelerated Reader into your Literacy Block • Assist students in selecting appropriate books • Students take the Accelerated Reader quiz within twenty-four hours after reading their book

  9. Important Data to Monitor • Quality: • Average percent correct on Reading Practice Quizzes for books in ZPD (Success Index) • Did student reach his/her goal? Focus on reaching goal, not on number of points. • The goal is for students to average 90% or better

  10. Diagnostic Report-Reading Practice STAR Summary Report • Provides a snapshot of every student and the class as a whole • Identifies students having trouble • Review weekly

  11. STAR Summary Report

  12. Other Key Data • Level:Average level of books read must be appropriate for individual student’s ZPD • Celebrate: Recognize students who earned 80-100% of goal. • Quality/Quantity: Did student earn number of points set as his/her goal?

  13. The Literacy Block IncorporatingAccelerated Reader (AR)Grades 2 – 8 I. Explicit Teaching: a 15-20 minute focused power lesson on one strategy/skill.II. 35Z90 Time (K-8 SCHOOLS) – students read text at their Zone of Proximal Development. Teachers monitor students’ reading practiceIII. Wrap-Up: (5 – 10 minutes). Students share examples of how they applied strategy/skill. H

  14. Reading Benchmark Test Standard: LA.3-8.R.? (Reading Applications: Informational, Technical and Persuasive Text Standard)

  15. Mini-Power Lesson Reading Applications: Informational, Technical, and Persuasive Text Standard C.Identify the central ideas and supporting details of informational text. 3. Identify and list the important central ideas and supporting details of informational text

  16. Mini-Lesson Modeling Grade Level Indicator Benchmark: Identify and list the important central ideas and supporting details • Focus skill lesson (10 – 15 minutes) • Students read AR informational books H

  17. Mini-Lesson: Modeling Grade Level Indicator, Cont. • Students practice identifying and listing the central idea and supporting details during independent reading. • Students take notes on a graphic organizer. • Students who complete reading AR books and graphic organizers may take the AR quiz

  18. Book Title: _____________Note Taking: Central Idea and Supporting Details

  19. 35Z90 Time • Read your copy of an AR book • Use the graphic organizer to list a central idea and 4 supporting details. • Be prepared to share. H

  20. Part 3 – Wrap-Up • Several students share what they wrote on their graphic organizers. • Allow 5-10 minutes

  21. Session Information for Reaction Sheets • Date: / /10 • Session #: • Session name: Literacy and Math Professional Development • Hours: 6 • Prof. Dev. Goal: • Topic Description: • Strategic focal point: • Participant Code: • Session Outcome:

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