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Summary of Euchee Creek’s AR Program
- Students are challenged to increase reading comprehension skills, as well as to read simply for enjoyment.
- Each grade level will determine its own goals, incentives, and grading systems in addition to the schoolwide program that is described below.
- All Media Center awards will be based on individual student goals with minimum grade level points and accuracy criteria.
- Approximately 100,000 AR quizzes are available online.
- Our AR Quiz Lists are available on this website and can be accessed by book title, author, quiz number, or ISBN.
- Reading levels are easily identified with color-coded labels on each AR book.
- Students are routinely recognized on the school wide video bulletin board for their successes with AR.
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Individual Student Goals
1. Reading Teachers
- Reading teachers will conference with each child to determine his individual AR goal for that grading period, which may go beyond the minimum grade level criteria.
- Teachers will write each child's reading range on his library card to help with book selection.
- Teachers will send home AR reports on a regular basis so that parents will understand each student's progress.
2. Media Specialist's Awards / Dates
- Minimum point and accuracy criteria will be assigned for each gade level. These points may increase from one grading period to the next and become proportionately higher for each grade level.
- The media specialist will print AR Diagnostic reports to determine who will receive Media Center awards for each nine-week period.
- First 9-Weeks -- Oct. 12
- Second 9-Weeks -- Dec. 20
- Third 9-Weeks -- March 12
- End-of-Year -- April 30
- Criteria for Prizes:
- Meet grade level minimum goal -- Ribbon and book
- Meet personal point goal -- School supply
- Meet all goals with 90% accuracy -- 90% Club -- Bonus prize
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Total Point Achievement
1. Engineer's Cap -- When a student reaches the requirements for his grade level, the student will earn the school's top AR prize, the engineer cap. Once a cap is earned, a badge/pin can be earned to decorate the cap as his points are doubled and tripled, etc. Points are not accumulated from year to year. Example: A second grader can earn a cap or badge for every 50 points earned with at least 80% accuracy. A fifth grader will need 125 points for each additional prize.
SAVE YOUR CAP !!!
Requirements:
All awards are based on 80% accuracy.
- Kindergarten -- 10 points
- First Grade -- 25 points
- Second Grade -- 50 points
- Third Grade -- 75 points
- Fourth Grade -- 100 points
- Fifth Grade -- 125 points
2. Honor's Day Program
- Certifcates will be awarded to fourth and fifth grade students who have earned 100 AR points with 80% accuracy during this school year.
- The top fifth grade reader will also receive a cash bonus award of $25.00 (contingent on available Book Fair profits). |
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AR Guided Reading -- Book Checkout Guidelines
- The following guidelines will be followed in the Media Center to help develop comprehension skills and equalize book distribution.
- Teachers may make exceptions as needed when they are supervising student checkout.
- 3 books per student (Kindergarten - one book for first half of year).
- All three boooks should be AR until goal is met, then third book may be nonAR.
- Limit of 2 fiction books per child / Only one in a series or by the same author.
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