Establishing a Reading Practice Program with Accelerated Reader Bakersfield City School District
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a. A program that supports and enhances your current reading instructional materials
b. AR enables powerful reading practice
c. AR makes reading fun for students by facilitating successful encounters with text
d. AR encourages substantial amounts of practice
e. AR provides data that helps teachers monitor and personalize reading practice
What is Accelerated Reader?
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“… the closer psychologists look at the careers of the gifted, the smaller the role innate talent seems to play and the bigger the role preparation seems to play.”
“Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing that makes you good.”
Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell, 2008
The Importance of Practice
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• Teachers will set goals for students• 85% of the students will actively
participate in AR in year one• Students will achieve an average of 85%
correct on their AR quizzes
BCSD Initial Implementation – District AR Goals
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High comprehension leads to growthn = 2,284,464
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• They read throughout a
range that enables them to average 85 – 95%
• They choose the books• They apply strategies–
visualizing, predicting, retelling, etc.
How do students achieve high comprehension?
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Quality Quantity Difficulty
Monitoring Tools for the Teacher
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Variety of Reading Logs in AR Resources
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Search Tool for Matching Students and Books – arbookfind.com
