Accelerated Reader
(AR)

Explorer Middle School uses the highly successful Accelerated Reader (AR) program to help students improve and increase their reading skills. Participation in the AR program is required and is an integral part of the English department curriculum.

The AR program is designed to motivate, monitor and manage students’ reading with computer based comprehension tests that are administered when students finish reading self selected books.

The AR program measures the quality, quantity and level of reading and provides information back to students, teachers and parents through a variety of reports. These reports are used for identifying strengths and weaknesses in reading.

All students begin the program by taking a placement test to determine a starting point for their reading regardless of whether or not they have participated in the program previously.

Following the placement test, teachers assist students in setting meaningful and realistic reading goals. Students are able to select books for which there is a Reading Practice quiz available. After students have read a book within their tested “zone” they take a computer generated quiz about the book they have read. The quiz results are added to the AR program database and reports can be generated for the students, teachers and parents.

Questions about the Accelerated Reading program can be directed to any English teacher or to the librarian in the library media center.

Student Directions For Taking AR Quizzes

1. Select either a fiction or nonfiction book to read based on your ZPD

2. Complete the reading log with the required information before starting to read

3. Read the book (English teacher will monitor your progress)

4. Ask your English teacher to sign your reading log when you have finished reading and are ready to take the quiz

5. Take your signed reading log to the Media Center and give it to Ms. Wong or Mrs. Kearns before taking your quiz

6. Log on to the Renaissance Learning website that is bookmarked on the student computer stations

7. Enter your username and password

8. Choose one of the three ways to search for the correct quiz : title of the book, author of the book or the quiz number. This information can be found on the inside top left corner of your book.

9. The TOPS report will automatically print upon completion of the quiz

10. Ask Ms. Wong or Mrs. Kearns to sign the TOPS report and your reading log

11. Show the TOPS report to your English teacher

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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