Accelerated Reading Program Analysis

During the next two decades, the focus of reading instruction shifted away from phonics based basal reading programs. Instead, research suggested teaching children how to think and

As the years went on, I continued to read. I would read books any time I got the chance. Sixth grade was one of my favorite years. We were able to read for half an hour every day. We also read in book club. We were required to read two books a month, but I usually read four or five. I loved to find new series that I liked.

While completing the Abecedarian Reading Assessment on my selected student, it was an eye opener of what is needed for a student to be able to develop reading skills. As some student enter kindergarten with a strong ability of reading, some students do struggle with basic letter knowledge which hinders their ability to learn how to read. To explain this better, the student that I chosen for the assessment is going to be entering 1st grade and have prior acknowledgement of Letter Knowledge, Phonological Awareness, Phoneme Awareness, Knowledge of the Alphabetic Principle, Vocabulary and Decoding when given the assessment. As the student had pre-school and kindergarten experience, the student need prompting and time to process the information

The first book I remember reading was Go Dogs Go by P.D. Eastman. I would read that book once a day with my mother, and never get tired of it. Then other books like The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who, and many other Dr. Seuss books came next. I couldn’t read enough of them growing up through kindergarten and first grade. Then all of a sudden I moved to Chelan and forced to read to meet my AR goal. Now, I am not trying to blame Accelerated Reader for my lack of motivation to read today, but I do believe it played a role in how I began to hate reading in elementary school.

My second ah-ha learning moment was found on page 5 of the WebQuest under Task #3 (Basal Readers for Reading Instruction The Reading Textbook). “Accelerated Reader -not really a program, but teachers use to give grades”. Why is this program not really considered a program? I vaguely remember participating in this program, when I was in school. Our program was titled “The Accelerated Reading Program (AR)”. It consisted of students going to the library checking out chapter books to read and being tested over the book. Each test that you take and score an 80 percent or higher, you would receive points toward winning prizes at the end of the school year. There were prizes such as a boombox, CD player, watch, video game system, mini tv, etc.

If I do not enjoy the book, I adore to think of other readers and their perspective on the book. I can easily change my perspective of how I see the book, and it seems to become a new book. While reading books I loved from early on, I will be locked in for hours. No matter how long, I will not stop the book until it is over. I often will lock myself in my room, and read until the sun is up. There are many reasons of why I read. As a child, I was hated reading, for all the books seemed to be boring or “girly”. I always wondered why our classes would read the Little House on the Prairie, instead of books of war and violence. My previous school really delayed my love for reading. We had a strange A.R where some students would read a total of six points a year, where I was required to read on an upward of 250 points annually as young kids. I was forced to speed read, and read books I didn’t enjoy just for the high points value. The change of schools caused my love of reading to excel. I learned about many amazing books that I could read without a nearly impossible deadline. I read more and more, and learned to love the books for the content, not the forced

First,According to www.understood.org the program does not teach students reading skills and strategies. It is intended to help kids to read independently at their own level and pace. For some kids who struggle with reading, AR has been a hassle and has not helped them to be a successful reader.

Reading is something that is taught to everyone in their early childhood, the time I learned to read I was very fond of books. I loved to read novels to myself and to read them out loud to my sister. I like reading action, thriller, historical fiction, and mystery. During my early childhood we would have challenges of reading such as wrapped up and reading, golden dragon. These were reading challenges for students to read 20-25 specific grade novels during the school year and at the end you got a party if you read at least 5-10. I used to love reading and at that time I would read at least 20 books because I wanted to go to the party and win something with the lottery tickets I got. My childhood was fulI of reading, even if I read because I was greedy and I read because of the party, it still improved my reading level. As I grew and grew my reading

In Implementing Response to Intervention in Reading General Education Class, I gained new insights that I am starting to implement in my 8TH Grade Reading Classroom. The three chapters that spoke the loudest to me and that I agree with Allington is about: why struggling readers continue to struggle, matching reader and text level, and using text that are interesting to students. Overall I feel that these three chapters correlate well with each other. Therefore, in my first part of my paper I am going to discuss what I learned from those three chapters and how I am starting to implement them into my classroom. The second part of my paper is going to focus on three issues that Allington brought up that I agree with his idea, but I see how it can be a challenge to incorporate in my classroom. The three issues are: not having the paraprofessionals solely work with struggling readers, but having all staff members work with struggling readers and then ensuring that the intervention is delivered by an expert teacher.

When I was young I had many memories of reading, From when I was a newborn till almost 10 years old, every night my mommy would read at least 2 picture books. Some of my favorite books were The 14 Bears Summer and Winter because I enjoyed all the cute illustrations of baby bears and their treehouse homes, and some Mother Goose Rhymes because I liked the rhymes and silliness of the beat. Also, when I was 4-7 years old I loved the book Brown Bear Barney because the girl in the story has adventures with Brown Bear Barney and she always gets reunited with him, I could relate to this because I was attached to my stuffed animal. A trouble I had learning to read was not being interested

I didn't learn how to read until the third grade. One day i picked up a book with beautiful pictures and i so badly wanted to understand what it said. And so I did. It just clicked in my head all of a sudden and I was able to understand. Before too long I was reading everything in the school library. I would get lost in the different worlds and I learned the meaning of words I didn't know by reading the sentence/ paragraph it was in. Finally i felt like I had something that I was good at. I could outread my peers before too long and by the time I was 9 years old I was reading college level books with ease. I would be spending at least 4 hours a day just reading, finishing 400 page book in a matter of days. In reading I was able to gain confidence in myself at school, and when things got hard I could just slip into another story and forget about my

I learned to read very young. My Grandma was an aspiring author and created a simple learn to read system called “The Look Book”. I loved the ability to read so young. I was a little celebrity in my mom’s group of friends, they would watch her quiz me in awe of my reading comprehension skills when I was just three years old. Someone even contacted my mom about sending me to a special school for gifted children. I wonder how different I would be now if I were sent there; Maybe my math skills would be fantastic. Reading taught me what an escape was at a very young age. The best feeling in the world from a toddler’s perspective is shutting the door and being able to curl up inside my cold sheets for hours, only hearing the sound of the turning page. The ability to visualize the story as if a movie is being played in your head. Reading was my escape. Reading made me feel safe.

Reading has been one of my favorite hobbies since I was a little child. I grew up as a normal child should grow and eventually I had to start learning for me to fit in society. My literacy started many years ago, after I knew how to talk and communicate with people. Reading my alphabet was quite stressful and I had to be given a hand by my family members. I remember my parents reading with me and it was the most meaningful and memorable way to spend time with me. This is because I liked reading a lot and I was eager to learn so that I could fit in with my older siblings. My favorite books were storybooks taking about adventures and fairytales

When I was little, I would enjoy reading books such as, Henry and Mudge, and also Captain Underpants. These were some books that I was able to understand because of them being less rigorous. As a grade school student, I was never the strongest reader. It was hard for me to understand and comprehend the material I was learning. In class, we would read short chapter books together as a class and take brief quizzes on the chapter then after. I believe the turning point to becoming a substantial reader happened when my family and I moved. I attended a different school in a different school district going entering fourth grade. Switching schools I think has benefitted me, and I think it was good I was still little because I felt as if the new school district I was in, District 303 in Illinois, give students more assistance and one-on-one to help us become stronger readers. When my class would start reading in class, I would step out of class and meet a

At this point in my life, reading would definitely not make a list of my favorite things to do, but this wasn’t always the case. Some of my youngest memories involve reading, and many of these memories are enjoyable. Every night before bed my mom would read to me, and I remember begging to read just one more before she tucked me in almost every night. This is when my love for reading sparked. Throughout grade school, I continued to read frequently and never found it to be a chore; however, once middle school hit I no longer included reading as a past time or found it pleasurable. Looking back now I realize this was when English class included more forced literature, and school consisted of reading extensive pages in textbooks. Reading