GV Staff & Parent Presentation Created by Lorrie Heagy

1. Accelerated Reader Rev Up Your Readers! GV Staff & Parent Presentation Created by Lorrie Heagy

2. Accelerated Reader • With over 100,000 titles to choose from, students can find a variety of titles within their reading range that provide challenge, not frustration. • Quizzes give students immediate feedback on how well they comprehended the text. • AR points act as a gauge to indicate how close they are to reaching their reading goal. Puts Readers on the Right Track

3. Accelerated Reader • Flexibility: Students read at their own pace. • Choice: Students have a variety of genres within their reading range to choose from. • Individual Success: Students help set their own reading goals. • Low Stress: No dictated number of pages or time constraints. • Voluntary: Participation in AR is not required. Students are in the Driver’s Seat

4. Accelerated Reader Students can read books three different ways: • To the child • With guidance • Independently Read in Several Gears: TWI

5. Accelerated Reader • AR quizzes provide teachers a built-in accountability system for their Sustained Silent Reading (SSR) programs. • Individual and class reports are easy to read and provide up-to-date progress information. • Easy as 1,2,3: Students read a book, take a quiz, and get information immediately. Pit Crew Gets Fast Reading Stats

6. Accelerated Reader • In his book, Punished by Rewards, Alfie Kohn states that rewards can discourage desired behaviors and warns that the same can happen with reading incentive programs. • The strength of the AR program is not in linking earned point goals to an extrinsic reward, but rather to its intrinsic elements: student choice, immediate feedback, access to a variety of books within that child’s reading range, the opportunity to attain goals and be recognized for this achievement. Reading is the Reward

7. Accelerated Reader • Acknowledge students who have reached their reading goals at school assemblies. • Avoid prizes and other extrinsic rewards. • Give AR certificates in recognition of their achievement. Hear the Roar of Recognition!

8. Accelerated Reader • AR is a reading incentive, not a reading program. • AR represents only a part of a balanced reading program and should enhance, not replace it. • Diverse reading experiences that foster deeper level thinking and are based on quality literature and student interest should help drive a balanced reading program. Balancing the Wheels of Your Reading Program

9. Accelerated Reader So what’s the best way for students to keep their lead lap? • Visit your school library, • Look for books with AR labels in your reading range, • Check them out … Readers, Start Your Engines!

10. Accelerated Reader See you at the WINNER’S CIRCLE! AND READ! I’m ready to take my AR quiz!

11. Accelerated Reader Works Cited "Accelerated Reader Enterprise." Renaissance Learning. 2006. Renaissance Learning, Inc. 28 Feb. 2007 <http://ren.learn.com/ar/overview/sbr.htm>. Johnson, Doug. "Creating Fat Kids Who Don't Like to Read." Library Talk 12.4 (Sept.-Oct. 1999): 64. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Mansfield U of PA, North Hall Lib. 28 Feb. 2007 <http://search.ebscohost.com/>. Kohn, Alfie. Punished by Reward: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1993.