AR Bookfinder
(lists all AR quizzes)

AR Home Connect
(website which allows parents to monitor their child’s progress)

The Accelerated Reader program (AR) is a reading management tool that efficiently personalizes the student’s independent reading practice. With AR, students are able to manage their own reading while allowing their teachers to guide their progress.

St. Luke’s commitment to AR is substantial: an abundant number of quizzes, computers, and books are available. We have invested in all the AR software giving us access to all available AR quizzes, approximately 150,000 with immediate access to all new quizzes plus the quizzes that cover our language arts textbook. This large number gives our students a wide variety of reading material. In fact, AR is intended to be a management program for independent pleasure reading. Students are encouraged to find books on their reading level that they will enjoy. With so many quizzes, they can choose from books at home or from school. Over 90% of the books in our school library have an AR quiz, practically all of the fiction and a large number of our nonfiction titles.

At the beginning of the school year, students receive an AR reading level as determined by the AR Star Reading Test.  Based on those results, a 9-week point requirement is determined by the language arts teachers following the AR guidelines. After completing each AR quiz, points are accumulated based on accuracy of test answers.  Students will be monitored each grading period to evaluate their reading progress. Obviously, our desire is to have our students exceed the number of required points as well as score 100% on each quiz, but ultimately our goal is for reading to become a part of our students’ daily life.

St. Luke’s Reading Stats: