Accelerated Reader

Accelerated Reader is a computerized program that assess comprehension of a book that a student has a read. With the computerized program, students are given a goal that consists of how many points they need a certain time span along with their reading level. The books are leveled and points are assigned depending on how many difficult the book is. After a student reads a book, they take a test to see how well they comprehend the book. Teachers can access the quiz grades and keep track on how well the students are doing with percent correct on tests and percent of goal points. Nunnery, Ross and McDonald (2006) report that according to the National Clearinghouse on Comprehensive School Reform (NCCSR) in 2004, more than 65,000 US schools had implemented Accelerated Reader. The research shows there are trends that show positive effects of using the accelerated reader program as well as negative effects. According to Smith and Westberg (2011) the Accelerated Reader (AR) program was designed by Renaissance Learning to increase students’ motivation to read and students’ achievement in reading; however, a review of the literature reveals…

I have been reading ever since I could remember. I was read to when I was little as well. I do not recall learning to read, only that when my mother sat me down to start learning how to read, I already knew how. All throughout elementary school, I participated in the Accelerated Reader (also called AR) program. I loved it because you would read books, and then takes quizzes on those books. Depending on your score, you would accumulate points, and those points could be used to buy things from the…

Accelerated reader has no effects on reading fluency according to institute of education sciences. So AR is not making students any more fluent or better at reading. This is a reason why we shouldn’t have AR because it is making kids read outside of school but not making them better at it. Some people think that accelerated reader makes kids read more outside of school, and that it makes them better readers they say it is good that it makes them read at their reading level. People that don’t…

What is Integrity? The definition of integrity according to dictionary.com is,”having honesty and moral principles.” If you were to be a person of integrity you would be always truthful and have actual moral values. Others may be better at it, but there are still mistakes. You are still human. Being a person of non-integrity and being a that makes mistakes are two very different things though. The mistake I made was,” Cheating on Accelerated Reader by taking tests on books that are the same…

My thesis states that Accelerated Reader or Scholastic Reading Inventory should not be used because it causes more harm than it does good. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rc/Ar is a reading program developed to help kids with literacy be “Testing their comprehension” of novels and giving them points if they pass tests on the books. Along with those they take a test to…

during the hour. There are three separate sections. Section one is located when you enter the classroom. There is a table with chairs the students are to sit at. Behind them are bookshelves that contain classroom textbooks, dictionaries, manipulatives for math lessons, and a shelf that contains extra notebook paper, fun worksheet activities and spelling lessons. There is a white board located in this section as well to teach daily lessons. The Reading Lab is located in the section that is behind…

Motivation is a complex construct, but in it’s simplest form motivation can be broken into two main components: intrinsic and extrinsic. When a person is intrinsically motivated to do something, the desire emanates from within. Extrinsic motivation, on the other hand, involves completing a task for an external reason. By encouraging children through rewards, their intrinsic motivation is destroyed. When the focus of an activity becomes gaining a reward, intrinsic motivation is reduced.…

As a young child at school, we had the Accelerated Reading Program. It was a program that encouraged children to read various books, and then after to take a quiz based on the books. This program really helped me, because the program pushed me to read more. Since I am bilingual, learning two languages as a child was a bit challenging for me, and learning how to read was even harder. I would sometimes mix up letters, vowels, and sometimes talk in Russian when I was supposed to talk in English.…

and enjoyment to all children in order to enhance an ongoing interest in reading. Most of these supplemental reading programs are not very expensive and motivate the students to develop their reading skills with the minimal assistance of a teacher. The Accelerated Reader (AR) program (Paul, VanderZee, Rue & Swanson, 1996) is the most commonly used recreational/motivational reading program. It is the world’s most popular reading management software that has been used in nearly 65,000 schools in…

However, Mr. Dohrmann uses more technology than Mrs. Church does. In Mr. Dohrmann’s classroom, he has four iPads, and he also allows the students to bring in their tablets from home to use for school assignments. The fifth-grade class also has access to a computer lab where they take tests and have typing lessons. The students in Mr. Dohrmann’s class also use tablets and computers to take accelerated reader tests. Likewise, the students in Mrs. Church class also use computers for accelerated…