Accelerated Reader is not a reading program

My friend B called yesterday to speak about her second grader. B was worried as a former teacher. She did not see a paper on language art coming back. When she asked her daughter to read the group at school, her daughter said, "We are not reading the group, I test it on the computer."

Her daughter is right, she is testing with a computer. According to the AR website, her school uses Accelerated Reader, "the world's most widely used reading software". AR works this way. The student reads, the students take the test, and the teacher receives a report outlining the test score. Student scores are accumulated throughout the year, and the available scores are different for each book. The easier the book, the less score. For example, when I browsed the AR BookFinder website I learned that Jerry Pinkney's Little Red Riding Hood was worth 0.5 points and Abel's Island (William Steig) was worth 3 points.

In a review of Accelerated Reader by Clearinghouse, two studies meeting WWC evidence standards were discovered. Based on the data from these two studies, the WWC concluded:

While the WWC believes that the evidence of an accelerated leader is moderate to large, it has high reading fluency and low reading readiness.

I am satisfied with all AR schools and using it for that may be a complementary intervention to encourage children to read more autonomously. However, the National Reading Group's conclusion on projects that encourage independent reading suggests that "we can not find a favorable relationship between curriculum and education that encourages many independent reading and improved reading (including fluency)" . Therefore, AR should not actually be used as a majority of the LA block.

Accelerated Reader does not explain the reading method. Teacher I recommend B to call her child 's teacher to learn more about about 90 minutes of Los Angeles time. B's daughter noticed that it might happen more. Keep on keeping, as she calls me, I will tell you what B is saying!

This year, we are making efforts to ensure that children meet AR's goals. What is AR? AR stands for Accelerated Reader and is used to encourage students to read more at many schools. At the school where I work, and at the school where my 4 children are attending, students will receive the STAR / Reading Comprehension Test at the beginning of each quarter. STAR tests determine their reading level and ZPD (proximal development area), and their goal is to set it during that quarter. They conducted an understanding test on the AR website and gained points for each passed test.

At their school, the second grade students were introduced to hangman who thought I read and were reading happily - Speed ​​up the reader program. Accelerated Reader is a computerized reading evaluation project created in 1985 and sold by the Renaissance for students, professionals, or those not in contact with the school world via interests. "With Accelerated Reader 360, K12 students do close-up reading activities in non-fiction articles, choose their own reading books, conduct short reading comprehension tests, grow."

Bramlet, Oxford, and Della Davidson schools offer two identical after school programs (promotion of readers and learning of parks). Accelerated Reader emphasizes improving reading comprehension by having children read it. Learning parks are more suitable for outdoor and environmental education than pure scholars. These schools also offer their own courses such as ABC Integrity Time. This is basically a "good citizenship" course. Brad Wright's Redding Rocket is a program that was carried out with the help of a literacy committee to support kid kindergarten at risk. Raise reading comprehension to grade level