Re: AR vs SRC (formerly EB)

[Penny McAllister <PMcalli718@AOL.COM>]

Kathy,

I do not work for AR but I must let you know that AR WAS NOT developed by a
book publisher.  It was started by a mom at her kitchen table for her kids.
Her husband, an early computer user, wrote the program after the neighborhood
kids went to school talking about how much fun they had had that summer.  One
thing lead to another......If you look at the earliest disks you will see
that the tests for were for outstanding, classic older titles.  That is the
reason I hopped on it in the early days because I hoped it would get the kids
reading some of those older books.

AR has recently developed newer, longer tests for literacy information.  It
groups the questions by critical analysis, inferential thinking, initial
understanding.....and the kids get various questions, like EB.  However, with
the new AR the teacher gets a report that lets them know  in what areas a
child is deficient.  I'm looking forward to getting that loaded so I can run
the teachers through it this summer.  It looks promising.

Penny McAllister, Librarian
Central Elementary School
Tuscaloosa, AL
pmcalli718@aol.com

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