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Empowering Readers: Accelerated Reader Program at Benton Harbor Charter School

Discover how Accelerated Reader boosts reading levels for K-8 students, promotes literacy skills, and enhances student achievement through quizzes and individualized feedback. Learn about the implementation steps and educational benefits.

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Empowering Readers: Accelerated Reader Program at Benton Harbor Charter School

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  1. Accelerated Reader = Increase in Reading Level? Benton Harbor Charter School Board Meeting – Tuesday July 23, 2005

  2. What is Accelerated Reading? • Student reads a book.Students choose their own books and read them at their own pace. • Student takes a quiz on the computer.AR’s more than 75,000 Reading Practice Quizzes help you motivate and monitor increased reading practice. • Student and teacher get Information!Both the student and teacher get immediate, individualized constructive feedback to direct ongoing reading practice.

  3. Technology • Today’s students • Hands on is key • Video game era • Want immediate feedback • Feed on competition • We must promote this love for reading • We know its value

  4. Quizzes • Wide Variety - over 80,000 available • Reading Quizzes • Textbook Series Quizzes • Recorded Voice Quizzes • Literacy Skills Quizzes • Magazine Quizzes • Vocabulary Practice Quizzes

  5. Sample Quiz - Indian in the Cupboard

  6. Why in our school? • Over half of all schools utilize Accelerated Reader. • The potential, if administered correctly, is phenomenal • This is even higher relevant to schools of low socio-economical background like ours. • Valuable for all grades K-12 • Challenging for students at any reading level. (i.e. a 5th grader could read 8th grade texts or they could read 2nd grade texts) based on their individual performance.

  7. Educational Need • The need that the students at Benton Harbor Charter School have below grade-level reading • If implemented properly this will be a tool for students to go beyond the textbook, read about their interests, win prizes, and feel a sense of accomplishment. • The need is school-wide (K-8) and the opportunity for raised student achievement and an increase in readers should not be passed up.

  8. The Four Common Places • These components include the following and will be effectively addressed. • Someone teaching • Someone Learning • In some subject area • In some setting

  9. Teacher • Teaching – Is a supplement to teaching, though is considered a more independent activity, will reinforce reading comprehension, and with the continuous experience of reading, should raise reading levels.

  10. Learner • Learning – The learning will take place by the ‘forced’ connection between what they read and the questions being asked of them. They will also receive immediate feedback and be provided with some sort of incentive throughout the programs implementation.

  11. Content Area • Subject – Will boost reading levels in all three types of readers; struggling, at-level, and advanced.

  12. Setting • Setting – Anywhere; Special Education or General Education; grades K-12 (though only K-8 will use program at my school)

  13. Cost for our school • Up to 500 students will have access for one year and user I.D. • Downloadable program to an unlimited number of computers. • 1,000 included quizzes, based on the selection in our library • $1299, charge for one year. • $500, for each following year (99 cents/student/year) • To add quizzes upon teacher request or new library materials - $2.69/quiz or packages available at discount prices. (see website for further details – www.renlearn.com

  14. Implementation Stage 1 • June 13, 2005 • Following extensive research and having a specific proposal in mind, I will speak with my principal to find out what steps would need to be taken to offer this proposal to the board. • Assuming that it will not happen until the fall, at this time or within a week, I will send out a letter which will read as follows: Click here for the letter.

  15. Implementation Step 2 • June-July, 2005 (hopefully meet with the board prior to or shortly after school begins) • Following the letter to the board, I hope to receive confirmation of the letter and an invitation to one of their monthly meetings. • This is where I hope to present my research of the effectiveness of Accelerated Reader and promote the cause to the school board.

  16. Implementation Step 3 • August 15th, 2005 - within the first few days of P.D. • The program will downloaded on all 250 of our computers. The bill of $1799 will be paid to get all enrolled students up and running and leave room for new registrations. • I will run a 2-3 hour professional development session on how Accelerated Reader works for the student, and how we, as teachers will utilize the information.

  17. Implementation Step 4 • August 29, 2005 – first day of school • Students will be briefly introduced to the program as part of their daily literacy. • Throughout the next couple of weeks, students should be comfortable with the program, know how to log on, and access quizzes for books they’ve read.

  18. Implementation Step 5 • September 30, 2005 – 1 month into implementing program. • Teachers will be given surveys (click here to see what the survey looks like) and have an open discussion on how they’ve seen it work or what needs to be changed. • Do we need more quizzes at this time? • Can we make it more effective? • Time • Learning • Effort • Rewards

  19. Questions? • About Accelerated Reader • Cost • Effectiveness • Professional Development • Change • Technology

  20. References • Ordering and Product Information • http://www.renlearn.com • This link contains research-based findings on the success of Accelerated Reading and a little more on what it is all about. • http://www.fcrr.org/FCRRReports/PDF/Accelerated_Reader.pdf • More research on Accelerated Reader • http://www.trelease-on-reading.com/whatsnu_ar.html • Tedious, in-depth research of AR…Discusses the pros and cons of Accelerated Reader • http://www.sdkrashen.com/articles/does_accelerated_reader_work/does_accelerated_reader_work.pdf • Several research-based case studies on the results of AR • http://www.readingonline.org/critical/topping/rolarL.html • Description, personal testimonies, and further resources on AR. • http://moodle.ed.uiuc.edu/wiked/index.php/Accelerated_Reader_Program • Action Research paper on the effects of AR by Janet Murley • http://ouray.cudenver.edu/~jlmurley/aresearchpaper.pdf • Truthful pros and cons of AR • http://curry.edschool.virginia.edu/go/tempo/TextAdopt/TextbookAdoptions1.html • Holmes, C.T., & C.L. Brown. "A Controlled Evaluation of a Total School Improvement Process, Shcool Renaissance." Technical Report. Athens, GA: University of Georgia, 2003. Online. • Krashen, S.D. "The (Lack of) Experimental Evidence Supporting the Use of Accelerated Reader." The Journal of Children's Literature. 2003. • Sadusky, L.A., & S.K. Brem. "The Integration of Renaissance Programs into an Urban Title I Elementary School, and its Effect on School-wide Improvement." Technical Report. Tempe, AZ: Arizona State University, 2002.

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