Accelerated Reader!

  What is Accelerated Reader?

The Florida Center for Reading Researched stated that, “Accelerated Reader (AR) is a computer based, reading management and motivational system designed to complement existing classroom literacy programs for grades K-12. AR’s goal is to motivate students to read using an individualized goal/point system. Students choose books or short stories to read from the school’s selected collection of books for which they have AR tests. AR provides extensive lists with tens of thousands of book titles and their corresponding grade levels and point values. Books are assigned a point value based on the number of words contained and its reading difficulty” (FCRR. 2007). Information retrieved from the World Wide Web at http://www.fcrr.org/FCRRReports/PDF/Accelerated_Reader.pdf.