Created to get students to read more through competition, second grade reading at Immaculata means lots of A-R tests. "Accelerated Reader (AR) is a daily progress monitoring software assessment in wide use by primary and secondary schools for monitoring the practice of reading." It took us a term or two in order to understand this program, but basically, the kids read an A-R book at home and then come back in to take a test on it via computer. It's our life daily these days. The problem with the program is, the child gets the same amount of points for a grade level book that's 20 pages as they do for a grade level book that is 200 pages. This has caused some headaches for some children, ... but for us it just means lots of Magic Schoolbus and Nature Upclose books.
Friday, February 18, 2011
Second Grade Reading = A-R Tests
Created to get students to read more through competition, second grade reading at Immaculata means lots of A-R tests. "Accelerated Reader (AR) is a daily progress monitoring software assessment in wide use by primary and secondary schools for monitoring the practice of reading." It took us a term or two in order to understand this program, but basically, the kids read an A-R book at home and then come back in to take a test on it via computer. It's our life daily these days. The problem with the program is, the child gets the same amount of points for a grade level book that's 20 pages as they do for a grade level book that is 200 pages. This has caused some headaches for some children, ... but for us it just means lots of Magic Schoolbus and Nature Upclose books.
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