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What is Accelerated Reader?

Establishing a Reading Practice Program with Accelerated Reader Bakersfield City School District. What is Accelerated Reader?. A program that supports and enhances your current reading instructional materials AR enables powerful reading practice

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What is Accelerated Reader?

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  1. Establishing a Reading Practice Program with Accelerated Reader Bakersfield City School District

  2. What is Accelerated Reader? • A program that supports and enhances your current reading instructional materials • AR enables powerful reading practice • AR makes reading fun for students by facilitating successful encounters with text • AR encourages substantial amounts of practice • AR provides data that helps teachers monitor and personalize reading practice

  3. The Importance of Practice “… 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

  4. BCSD Initial Implementation – District AR Goals • 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

  5. High comprehension leads to growth n = 2,284,464

  6. How do students achieve high comprehension? • They read throughout a range that enables them to average 85 – 95% • They choose the books • They apply strategies–visualizing, predicting, retelling, etc.

  7. Monitoring Tools for the Teacher Quality Quantity Difficulty

  8. Variety of Reading Logs in AR Resources

  9. Search Tool for Matching Students and Books – arbookfind.com

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