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Renaissance Learning

More than AR Testing

AgendaIntroduction

Benefits of Accelerated Reader Renaissance Place

Teacher tools designed for monitoring student progress and goals.

Automatic enrollment & transfer of student records/history through PEIMS updates.

Immediate access to all and newly published quizzes.

Agenda

Quizzes

Terminology

Implementing Renaissance/Goal Setting

Reports

Outline

Reading Practice Quizzes

Designed to indicate whether a student has read and understands a self-selected book on a basic level.

Offers unlimited access to more than 136,000 quizzes.

Test will consist of 5, 10, or 20 questions.

Reading Practice

Sample Quiz

Recorded Voice Quizzes

Audio form of Reading Practice Quizzes

More than 5,200 available

Most quizzes for primary level books

Professional narrator reads questions and answer choices

Students need headsets

Spanish Practice Quizzes

Quizzes are written for the best-selling titles available in Spanish

Written and edited by native Spanish Speakers

More than 8,700 available

Spanish Recorded Voice Quizzes are also available.

Vocabulary Practice Quizzes

Vocabulary Practice

Vocabulary words that are at or above the average reading level of the text.

Appear in the book at least twice, as well as review words from previously read books.

More than 10,200 quizzes available.

Sample Quiz

Vocabulary List Report

The Vocabulary List Report provides information on the vocabulary words presented on a Vocabulary Practice Quiz.

Vocabulary List Report

Literacy Skills Quizzes

Literacy Skills

Help monitor growth in comprehension and literacy skills.

Allow educators to assess how students are progressing in 24 specific skills in four key areas: Initial understanding, Inferential comprehension, Literary analysis, Constructing meaning.

Quizzes are supplemental and should be taken in far fewer numbers than Reading Practice Quizzes.

Students should not take a Literacy Skills Quiz unless they have first passed the Reading Practice Quiz.

Sample Quiz

Literacy Skills Teacher’s Guide

Each Literacy Skills Quiz has a Literacy Skills Teacher's Guide that includes book information, a list of the main characters, vocabulary, synopsis, open-ended questions, and teachable skills.

Literacy Skills Teacher’s Guide

Literacy Skills Teacher’s Guide

Literacy Skills Teacher’s Guide

Other Reading Series Quizzes

Other Reading Series

Other Reading Quizzes are aligned with major textbook series, HMH Journeys.

You can use the results of these quizzes to monitor each student’s progress on reading assignments.

Sample Quiz

ATOS Readability Formula

ATOS Formula

A grade-level scale used to establish levels for books.

An ATOS level on a book indicates how difficult the text is to read. Thus, it can help match books to a student's reading level.

Employs four factors to determine readability of a text: average sentence length, average word length, vocabulary grade level, word count.

ATOS for Text

ATOS for Text

A grade-level scale for use with other reading materials such as magazine articles, textbooks, and passages from reading tests.

Educators may submit passages of text for free analysis through the RenLearn website:

www.renlearn.com/ar/overview/atos/

ATOS 2000

ATOS 2000

Scaled Score converted to a 2000-point scale that is similar, but not identical, to the Lexile scale.

The ATOS 2000 score should be useful to anyone who is accustomed to using Lexiles, because its values will be reasonable approximations in most cases.

Implementing Renaissance/Goal Setting

Implementing Renaissance/Goal Setting

If you set Reading Practice certification goals, Accelerated Reader automatically monitors student progress.

Teachers match books to students using the Goal Setting Chart.

Because the Goal Setting Chart is based on grade-equivalent score, any norm-referenced standardized test can be used.

Implementing Renaissance/Goal Setting

The reading ranges on the chart are based on the theoretical zone of proximal development. A range of books that will challenge without causing frustration or loss of motivation.

The minimum average percent correct goal on Reading Practice Quizzes is 85%.

Goal Setting

Reading Practice Reports

Diagnostic - Reading Practice

The Diagnostic - Reading Practice Report summarizes your students' performance on Reading Practice Quizzes.

It uses diagnostic-or "at risk"-codes to identify students who may be struggling.

Diagnostic Report

Student Record Report

Student Record Report

The Student Record Report is a useful tool for teachers to find patterns and diagnose problems in a student's reading practice.

It shows the date the student took the quiz, title, questions the student answered correctly, total number of questions on the quiz, points the student earned.

Student Record Report

Contact

Questions or Comments

Juan Herrera

Library\Media Services

698-0570

jomherrera@bisd.us