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Scholastic Book Orders
Class Code: PFBB4
Every few weeks your student will get Scholastic Book Order fliers in their Monday Folder. The book order is a great opportunity to connect your child with books kids love to read. Every book in the flyers is handpicked by experts who know what helps students grow as readers. Books are chosen based on your student's grade level and interests, so it’s easy to help every child find the right titles. And best of all, each month the flyers include a new selection of titles that help support what we're learning in the classroom! Also, it gets EVEN BETTER - when you and your child buy books for home, we earn FREE books for our classroom!
Order due dates will be sent home with the fliers, and a Remind text message will be sent out (to those who have subscribed) to remind you that book orders are due. They can be placed online with our class code, OR your child can turn in their paper orders to me at school. Once I confirm the orders, the books will arrive within 2 weeks!
Happy reading!
Class Code: PFBB4
Every few weeks your student will get Scholastic Book Order fliers in their Monday Folder. The book order is a great opportunity to connect your child with books kids love to read. Every book in the flyers is handpicked by experts who know what helps students grow as readers. Books are chosen based on your student's grade level and interests, so it’s easy to help every child find the right titles. And best of all, each month the flyers include a new selection of titles that help support what we're learning in the classroom! Also, it gets EVEN BETTER - when you and your child buy books for home, we earn FREE books for our classroom!
Order due dates will be sent home with the fliers, and a Remind text message will be sent out (to those who have subscribed) to remind you that book orders are due. They can be placed online with our class code, OR your child can turn in their paper orders to me at school. Once I confirm the orders, the books will arrive within 2 weeks!
Happy reading!
Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader (AR) is reading management software. Accelerated Reader helps you focus attention on careful reading of books, which improves scholars’ critical-thinking skills and builds an intrinsic love of reading.
How it works:
Simply put: Read a book. Take a quiz. Read another book.
Each AR book is assigned a ZPD and points for difficulty. The higher the reading level the more points value the book. The lower the ZPD the lower the points value per book. For example if a scholar’s ZPD is say 2.5-4.6 the books they books in this range will be smaller and have less value in points requiring the scholar to read more books. If a scholar’s ZPD is 5.5-7.8 the reading skill level is higher and the books will be more challenging, denser, and take longer to complete, hence the higher points value as said scholar will most likely read less in quantity of books than the scholar with a lower ZPD.
To determine your scholar’s ZPD they will be tested using AR’s STAR program. A report will come home sharing their result with you.
Scholars should be reading each evening. This is a Homework requirement built into our class.Once the AR book is complete the student can take the quiz, in the library or in the classroom. Once the scholar has successfully completed the quiz, they can move onto the next AR book.
When picking books from home or from book order lists, use AR Book Find to look up a book's ZPD and point level.
Accelerated Reader (AR) is reading management software. Accelerated Reader helps you focus attention on careful reading of books, which improves scholars’ critical-thinking skills and builds an intrinsic love of reading.
How it works:
Simply put: Read a book. Take a quiz. Read another book.
Each AR book is assigned a ZPD and points for difficulty. The higher the reading level the more points value the book. The lower the ZPD the lower the points value per book. For example if a scholar’s ZPD is say 2.5-4.6 the books they books in this range will be smaller and have less value in points requiring the scholar to read more books. If a scholar’s ZPD is 5.5-7.8 the reading skill level is higher and the books will be more challenging, denser, and take longer to complete, hence the higher points value as said scholar will most likely read less in quantity of books than the scholar with a lower ZPD.
To determine your scholar’s ZPD they will be tested using AR’s STAR program. A report will come home sharing their result with you.
Scholars should be reading each evening. This is a Homework requirement built into our class.Once the AR book is complete the student can take the quiz, in the library or in the classroom. Once the scholar has successfully completed the quiz, they can move onto the next AR book.
When picking books from home or from book order lists, use AR Book Find to look up a book's ZPD and point level.