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AR Report Instructions
Student Record
This report will show you everything that the student has read this year (or any other year). You will be able to see the book title, book level, the score the student made on each quiz and how many points earned.
This report is great for verifying the book titles and is one to print when having parent conferences so the parent can see exactly when and what was tested over.
Click on the orange Accelerated Reader square on your AR teacher home page.
Click on Reports and then Reading Practice. Click on Student Record.
Within this report, there are several things you can do. First of all UNcheck everything but English Reading Practice Quizzes in the Quiz Type section (we don't use any of the other activities).
Next, pick the data parameters for your report. You can make the report start in 2011 or whatever year you choose in order to see what the student has read over the last few years. You can make the date range for just a certain six weeks or for a week ago; it just depends on what info you need.
Select the class period you wish to view, or allow it to show you all class periods at one time.
To generate a Student Record for a particular six weeks, go to the Report Period section and click on the drop-down menu. Choose a six weeks and then click View Report to see it.
Setting and Checking Point Goals
*Remember, you must first administer the STAR Universal Screen in order to accurately generate goals for each student.
This is where you will be able to input goals at the beginning of each six week and modify a student's goal if needed.
Click on the orange Accelerated Reader square on your AR teacher home page.
Click on Records Books and Goals. Choose the class period and then Reading Practice Goals.
If you are inputting goals for the first time in a six weeks, do the following:
· Choose a Marking Period – go to the Select Marking Period link, select the current six weeks, then Save
· Select the Average % Goal (85%)
· Select the Minutes of Daily Reading – 25 minutes --- you can adjust this for individual students; selecting 20 min. would decrease the goal slightly.
· Click - Update all students
· Review the report generated at the bottom which shows –
o Suggested ZPD (zone where they can read comfortably; you may allow students to go above or below this zone at your discretion)
o We want them to strive to get 85% or better on quizzes
o Under Points, you will see a Goal column – this is where you begin the conference/negotiation with your student. AR is telling us that based on the STAR assessment, this is what they should be able to earn comfortably in a grading period if they read 25 minutes per day.
(for example, at Marshall our standard “homework reading” is to complete 100 min. of outside reading every week – can be broken up to best fit the student. That would equal 4 days of reading, 25 min. per day. Add to that the two in-class SSR reading sessions they get on Tues/Thurs which is two more 25 min. sessions = total of 6 days @ 25 min. per day)
o Once you conference with your student at either the end of a grading period or the beginning of one, you write down the agreed-upon goal on the reading log and adjust the points goal into the Goal column then Save.
How do I give grades for this?
Create a separate AR column in your gradebook and weight it according to your syllabus (does it count 20%, 30%, or 40% of the grade?)
Within that category, make two separate columns. One is labeled Quiz Passing % and the other is labeled Point Goal %. You will use these two grades to determine the AR grade.
To get the Diagnostic Report that shows the results of your class progress (passing percentage, points earned, and % earned toward goal) so you can input these numbers:
o Go to the Reports section for Accelerated Reader
o Click on Reading Practice, and then Diagnostic – Reading Practice Report.
o Choose a class and a date range, then View Report
This report will show you their progress toward the goals. At the end of the six weeks, you can then use the percentages provided instantly in the report to generate the two AR grades (Passing % of tests taken, % of Point Goal reached)
If you are just checking the Point Goals for the current six weeks that have already been set:
Click on the orange Accelerated Reader square on your AR teacher home page.
Click on Records Books and Goals. Choose the class period and then Reading Practice Goals.
You can right click on the page, click on print, and it will print the information. Once you have the point goals in, it is suggested that you print them out and then use this when conferencing with the students. You can write in any new goals that you have negotiated for them, and at the end of the day, you can input those new goals on this screen and click Save.
Diagnostic Reading Practice
*You must first enable and set student goals for the grading period before this will be a useful report.
This is the report to use when you want to see how many points a student has earned, how close they are to their Point Goal progress, and their quiz average grade. You will generate this report to find the grades to input into the grade book. It is required that the gradebook gets updated every week. Parents check the gradebook online frequently to see what the current AR grade is for their child.
Click on the orange Accelerated Reader square on your AR teacher home page.
Click on Reports and then Reading Practice. Click on Diagnostic - Reading Practice.
Select a class period in the Select Students section. Click on the dates for the report. To generate grades for a current grading period, select that grading period from the drop down menu. This is important, or it will not accurately show the goals and progress toward them.
*If a student takes quizzes in two different classes, for example in a regular Reading class and a Dyslexia class, checking the box next to Use Only Quizzes for a Specific Class will ONLY show you the quizzes that students have taken under your name for your class. If you leave this unchecked, it will show you ALL the quizzes the students have taken in your class or in any Reading Improvement/Dyslexia class they may be taking.
STAR Test Results
Students are tested using the STAR test at the beginning of each year, again in December, and at the end of the year.
To check their results on STAR:
Sign in to the AR teacher home page. Click on the STAR Reading square. Click on Reports and then choose the different reports available.