Accelerated reader: Year 2

All of the children should have come home with a levelled book on Friday. Apologies, I thought that you had been given about Accelerated Reader (AR) before. I am just going to try and show you what you can do on there. So the books that the children bring home that have an orange sticker on the bottom left corner are the level they are reading. If the children are in my spelling group (have my spellings each week) then they have completed a test to be given this number. Please only read this number. If your child is not in my group (still doing RWI) then they can read books from 2.0 and below and they get free choice on them. Children might also bring home a book with a different coloured label, this book is free choice and not on AR. 

How AR works

Once your child has read the story either alone or with you, you can access AR. The red circles on the pictures are where you should click or type something. 

To access AR go to our school website and click on this: 

Then this: 

Then this:

Then this: 

And this: 

This will take you to the AR website. Use your child's log in cards to get their username and passwords. Once you are logged on this screen below will appear. If an authorisation password is needed then the password is 'admin'. 

Once you press on the orange book like above the below bar will appear: 

You can either type the title of the book or on the inside cover there will be a number to type in. Sometimes the pictures of the front covers do not always look the same. Your child will then have 5 questions to answer about the book they have read. Please support them with that and use the book if they can't remember. 

If you press on the button as shown below then you can see how many points that have received. They get 0.5 points every time they read and pass a quiz. The higher up the AR number the more points you get if you pass a quiz. 

The rocket will move up when your child passes more quizzes. 

If you press on this button then you can see all the books your child has read and what percentage they have received. 

The library is open before and after school. All children will go to the library on a Friday and my RWI will go on a Monday too. If you have any questions please just ask me, I am more than happy to clarify and I hope the blog helps. I will print this out and send a copy home. It might be best to save the website on a bookmark to make it easier to access. 

Just one more thing, some of your favourite story classics that you read at home with your child might be on AR. If they know a story back to front and inside out because you've had to read it every night then I would encourage you to go onto AR and find the quiz. This does not have to be the stories that the children read but ones your share and they listen to. 

📚Mrs Thorpe 📚