Accelerated Reader

 Accelerated Reader (AR) Renaissance Place (RP) Edition is the nation’s leading reading management program, used in more than 58,000 schools. Since 1986, AR has helped hundreds of thousands of teachers inspire teacher-led “reading revolutions” in their classrooms. AR provides educators timely and accurate information on students’ reading performance. Teachers can use this information to quickly adjust instruction to help all students reach their greatest potential. Accelerated Reader helps teachers reach all types of readers with Reading Practice, Vocabulary Practice, Literacy Skills, and Other Reading Quizzes.

 A typical Accelerated Reader session operates something like this:

1. Assign Reading Practice goals and certification levels for the students in the Accelerated Reader class record book.

2. Students either choose a book to read or read books that have been assigned to them.

3. Students use Accelerated Reader at the computer to search for and take the quiz for the books they have read.

4. Accelerated Reader scores each student’s quiz and prints a TOPS Report which is a report that tells the students’ score, how many questions they answered correctly, and how many points they earned if they passed the quiz.

5. The teacher and the student can discuss the TOPS Report.

Trinity Christian School has not approved all of the available materials on the Accelerated Reader website as appropriate for our students.  It is recommended that parents confirm with their child(ren) that they have chosen a book to read that has been approved by the classroom teacher before beginning reading.  This will help assure the selection completes all criteria required by the school and the teacher.