All, I do not "use" Accelerated Reader.
I have reading incentive programs for our religious school kids in grades 1-6.
Some of these children use Accelerated Reader in their public or day schools
and want to take out books from our library for which they can get credit at
school. After several students expressed the wish to know this information,
I decided to identify AR books for them--as a service to them and as an
incentive to have them read these Jewish books. They are excited to know that
I will do this.
I'm interested to see that others of you agree with me about the level
assignments AR uses, and I will not put a label on some of the books like
Freefall that say it's for 3rd graders. That's just absurd and I'm surprised
that the whatever formula is used to assign levels to such books hasn't been
improved. One would think that AR would have heard from teachers, after all
the years it's been in use. I will report back on how this works out, and
whether I decide to abandon the whole idea!
Andrea
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From: suzi48dubin <[email protected]>
To: Norm Janoff <[email protected]>; Andrea Rapp <[email protected]>; Hasafran
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Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2014 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [ha-Safran] Accelerated Reader
......And that is why I refuse to use AR. Their decisions on what grade level
is appropriate is just WRONG.
Suzie Dubin
T-Mobile. America's First Nationwide 4G Network.
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From: Norm Janoff
Date: 1/15/2014 4:33 PM
To: Andrea Rapp;Hasafran;
Subject:Re: [ha-Safran] Accelerated Reader
When I worked in the public library we had this problem all the time.
Accelerated Reader doesn't seem to take into account the maturlity level of the
topic or theme, but only the word and syllable counts, vocabulary, etc. It's
very frustrating.
Carol Janoff
Temple Chai
Phoenix, AZ
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Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 12:32:40 -0800
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ha-Safran] Accelerated Reader
I'm putting the labels on the books, looking up the assigned reading levels
that AR gives each book. Freefall, by Anna Levine, grade level 3.9?
Ridiculous. I'd give it to kids in 6th or 7th grade at minimum. On the other
hand, The Peddler's Gift/Shnook the Peddler is 5th grade level.
I am really surprised at the level assignments to so many titles.
Andrea Rapp
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