This week I decided to write about what I do for Accelerated Reader in my classroom. I have book bins for leveling my books (from Dollar General). Each bin has a label with the number of the leveled books inside and each book in the bin has a label with the number so that students can hopefully keep them organized for me. This also allows for students to get books on their levels without my help during The Daily Five and Guided Reading. Students have cards with their reading ranges on them in their book boxes so when they come to get new books they can see easily which books are "Good Fit" books for them. I color coded the different levels to help as well (red= 0.1-0.9, Green=1.0-1.9, Yellow=2.0-2.9, Blue=3.0-3.9). 
To help motivate students to take quizzes they each have an incentive chart. When they pass a quiz they get a sticker for their chart. Once the charts are full we will have a class party. I also have a board in my classroom where I keep track of how many points each student has. Students move their stars to the next bigger star once they have reached that point value. They get a little prize when they move their star (for example they got a superhero pencil for getting to 5 points).
Students have a goal to take 3 quizzes a week but can do more than that if they want to.
1. Class Quiz
2. A book at school during Daily Five
3. A book from home
What do you do for AR?
Have a great week!
Nicole Berg
