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Meara Mooney
Megan Rosebblatt
Grant Category
Grant Cycle
Fall
Description
"It's all about practice. AR encourages substantial differentiated reading practice to create strong readers. Based on each student's independent reading level, AR helps teachers set personalized goals for each student, and guide students to books difficult enough to keep them challenged, but not so difficult to cause frustration. In addition, AR helps teachers monitor students' vocabulary growth, literacy skills development, and other reading skills."
Success of Program
The STAR Reading Enterprise Assessment component of the Accelerated Reader program provides formative assessment to measure student success and achievement. "The STAR Reading Enterprise assessments include progress monitoring, standards benchmarking, as well as Student Growth Percentile measurements. Teachers can screen their entire class in minutes to reveal which students need to reach benchmark, and to help group students by proficiency levels."
CAHSEE scores as well as the new Smarter Balance CCSS assessments will also be used to assess the program's effectiveness.
Implementation
"First, a student’s optimal reading level is determined through the STAR Reading Enterprise assessment. This assessment provides information on a student’s overall reading ability and suggests a range of book levels for each student called the “zone of proximal development”, or ZPD. An entire class can be screened in approximately 15 minutes.
Teachers then meet with each student to set three individualized reading practice goals based on reading quantity, quality, and difficulty and monitor progress toward those goals.
Students read books of interest at their own reading level. AR BookFinder makes it easy to find the perfect book.
- Students take an AR Quiz. AR offers more than 150,000 quizzes of five types on both fiction and nonfiction titles. Students have many different options for taking AR Quizzes, including laptops, PCs, and through the AR Student App available on iPads.
- AR provides teachers with instant feedback, helping them monitor the comprehension skills of each student and inform further instruction or intervention. Students and parents get instant feedback to help motivate success with the use of the TOPS Report and Renaissance Home Connect."
Can you share this grant with your grade level or subject team?
The Truckee High School English/Language Arts PLC consists of English teachers, Spanish Teachers, an ELD teacher, and a Librarian. We all agree that the Accelerated Reader program can reinforce the accountability piece required to make school wide SSR successful. Accelerated Reader was purchased through Title 1 funds for North Tahoe High School, and is has been a successful component of their literacy program. We'd like the opportunity to expand this effective program district wide.
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Other funding sources
The cost of this program would place an excessive burden on site funds. Title 1 funds have paid for this program at other sites, but Truckee High School doesn't have Title 1 designation. At this time, there isn't Measure A funds allocated for literacy purposes.