The Adler Park School staff thanks the Adler Family Association for funding the Early Literacy, Accelerated Reading, and STAR Reading Programs. These programs, along with classroom reading instruction, help your child's teacher get the information needed to help every Adler Reader succeed. Because Adler School uses Accelerated Reader Enterprise, our students can access any of the thousands of AR quizzes available.
| Accelerated Reader Bookfinder You can use the Accelerated Reader Book Finder from home or from the public library to find out if a particular book has an AR quiz. You can also find any AR book's reading level, points, and quiz number. As long as a book has a quiz, Adler students can earn points by reading the book at home or at school, then taking the quiz in their classroom. |  |
| Early Literacy Program | STAR Reading | Accelerated Reader | AR in the Library | AR Bookfinder |
Early Literacy Program
The
Early Literacy program helps teachers identify student literacy levels,
assess and demonstrate progress, and determine instructional focus in
grades kindergarten through second. The assessment contains 25
questions that adjust in content and difficulty level based on previous
responses. It takes most students an average of 10 minutes to
complete a STAR Early Literacy assessment, without teacher assistance.
The student report identifies the child's command of phonemic
awareness, phonics, and other key reading readiness skills.
STAR Reading
STAR
Reading is a computerized assessment that gives the classroom teacher
valuable information on each student's reading level. The STAR
assessment uses computer-adaptive technology, which means the questions
adjust automatically according to a student's previous answer. If a
student responds correctly, the next question will be more difficult.
If a student responds incorrectly, the next question will be less
difficult. This makes the test fast and accurate. When students
complete the assessment, the teacher gets grade equivalents, percentile
ranks, normal curve equivalents, and a Zone of Proximal Development.
The Zone of Proximal Development is the range where books are
challenging yet not frustrating--and therefore promote optimal growth
in reading.
Accelerated Reader
Once
the STAR assessment is completed, the classroom teacher helps students
choose books in their ZPD zones. Students read at their own pace.
After finishing a book, students take a quiz which measures their
understanding and comprehension. The Reading Practice Quizzes are
taken on every book that the student reads. The quizzes consist
of literal questions which measure comprehension. After taking a quiz,
students need to maintain an average score of 85% and above to know
that they are reading books a at the appropriate level. A lower score
would indicate that the books may be too difficult and could cause
frustration. After taking the Reading Practice Quiz for a book,
students can also take the Literacy Skills Quiz for the same book.
Literacy Skills Quizzes ask higher-level questions that require
students to apply up to 24 different skills--such as understanding
characterization, inferential understanding, and recognizing cause and
effect. Diagnostic reports help teachers identify reading problems and
also provide printouts for parents. The Student Record Report gives the
teacher, student and parents a complete list of the books the student
has read and the scores for each quiz. The TOPS report is printed each
time a student takes a quiz. This report displays a special message for
the student. It also shows the level of the book, the student's score
on the quiz, as well as the student's averages for the entire school
year. Using the AR guidelines and STAR test data, a point value goal is
set for each student. Goals and reading zones are changed througout the
year as students' reading abilities improve. Students
are expected to be reading about 30-40 minutes each night to improve
their reading skills and work toward their AR goal.
Accelerated Reader in the Adler School Library
Accelerated
Reader assigns levels to books using their ATOS readability formula.
Books in the Adler School library are color-coded for the various book
level ranges, making it easy for students to browse for their own
books. Students can also search Adler's library catalog to create
lists of books at their level. Adler's color coding system is as
follows:
0.1-0.4 -- Red
0.5-0.9 -- Orange
1.0-1.4 -- Yellow
1.5-1.9 -- Green
2.0-2.4 -- Blue
2.5-2.9 -- Black
3.0-3.4 -- Violet
3.5-3.9 -- Rose
4.0-4.4 -- Chartreuse
4.5-5.5 -- Aqua
5.6 and up -- Copper
