Re: Accelerated reader

[Betty Copeland <bcope@tenet.edu>]

I have moved this year from high school to intermediate school. My
current school is heavily into AR.  I agree that it is a wonderful
reading incentive, but I bite my tongue daily when I hear teachers say a
student can't read that book because it's "not on his level", or a
student say he can't read a book because it's not AR!  I also found that
at the beginning of the school year, before Accelerated Reader was
updated for the year on the computers, that there was more of a variety
in the checkouts -- more non-fiction, for example.

I started off the year booktalking and reading a portion of Gulliver's
Travels, of which we have no AR test.  The kids were fascinated by the
story, so I emphasized finding a good story, rather than points.
However, I'm finding that the library budget and circulation is being
driven by Accelerated Reader -- I plan on getting customized tests for
those titles I think should be read but are not on the "list", as well
as getting more non-fiction titles that are Accelerated Reader.

Betty Copeland, Librarian
Dahlstrom Intermediate
Hays Consolidated ISD
Buda, Texas
bcope@tenet.edu

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