Accelerated Reader Program
Accelerated Reader (AR) is a reading management software program which provides teachers with an effective way to monitor all forms of guided reading practice. AR is currently used in grades 1 through 8 at St. Matthew Catholic School.
- AR gets students excited about books. AR helps to focus attention on careful reading of books, which improves students' critical-thinking skills and builds an intrinsic love of reading.
- Teachers obtain reliable, objective information. The quizzes give teachers valuable data on students' literacy skills development.
- AR keeps each student challenged. Using AR, teachers guide students to appropriate books and curriculum.
Accelerated Reader's three steps continuously guide students to appropriate books. At the same time, it helps teachers personalize reading instruction and intervene with students who need extra help.
- Student Reads a Book. The student reads a library or textbook selection.
- Student Takes a Quiz. The quizzes provide assessment information to help motivate reading, monitor progress, and target instruction to accelerate reading growth.
- The Teacher Gets Information. The teacher gets reports on the reading level and comprehension skills of each student to guide instruction and helps the student select more reading materials.
Finding Accelerated Reader Books
Book search at www.arbookfind.com
This website will allow you to search for Accelerated Reader book titles based on authors, topics, or titles of books. You will have to identify yourself as student or parent to get started. You can Quick Search or use the Advanced Search which offers more search criteria.
Just type what you want to search for and click Go. You will then be able to sort your search results and print your list or save the list to a file on your computer for later reference. You can also select book titles to add to your "AR BookBag" (a customized list of the titles you are interested in). Once you have selected the titles for your "AR BookBag" simply return to the icon of the AR BookBag in the upper left hand portion of the screen and select it. You will be able to print your selected book titles (sorted in any of 4 different ways).
Search the school catalog
To search St. Matthew's school library catalog for Accelerated Reader Books, you need to search a specific field (the 526 field) and reading level. To do this, enter search terms such as "526:Accelerated Reader 3.7" (or whatever reading level you choose) in the search box. Make sure that you enter search terms exactly as displayed or the search will not return any results.
Search the St. Matthew library online catalog.
If you have any questions or problems, please contact Mrs. Uliana in the library.
