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Accelerated Reading Teachers Chatboard TOP POSTS ALL POSTS SUBMIT POST Search Teachers.Net Advanced You're on the... Accelerated Reading Teachers Chatboard top posts | all posts | submit post Make Accelerated Reading a Favorite! We also recommend... Language Arts Center Language Arts Lesson Plans Language Arts Mailring Lesson Plans • Math • Language Arts • Science • Social Studies • Music • Art & Crafts • Phys Ed • Other Teacher Chatboards • latest posts • by subject • by grade level • by state • all chatboards • language arts center • technology center • foreign language center • hot topics • interest groups Teaching Jobs Classroom Projects Teacher Mailrings Teachers.Net Gazette • Current Issue • Harry Wong Column • Teacher Classified Ads • Classroom Printables next post skip topic Print | Share | Report Post Re: Question Posted by matilda on 8/14/08 I was under the impression that if a student has already taken a test on a certain book that the program will not let them try to take it again? Am I totally wrong on this? On 8/04/08, Deb ms/IA wrote: > Mark, sounds like your AR person doesn't know how to run the > program. All students should be moved to the next grade level > every summer. This way a complete and continuous record of all > books read by each student through their entire school career. I > can research all books read by our students from 4-8. No retakes > on tests if record keeping is properly done. Sounds like your > school needs training??? > > Deb ms/IA I love AR in my 8th grade class! > > On 8/02/08, mark wrote: >> >> I hate AR. I teach 8th grade E/LA and the lower grades in our >> m.s. misuse AR to the point where the kids don't bother even >> reading the books. They just repeatedly take the tests over >> until they pass them for the credit. It takes me 2 months, two >> novels, to extinguish the idea that reading is getting through >> texts. Once they begin to understand theme and big issues, they >> slow down and start to enjoy reading and the craft of writing. >> mar RESPOND TO THIS POST START A NEW THREAD RETURN TO CHATBOARD Posts on this thread, including this one Teachers and AR, 7/31/08, by MPSlib. Re: Teachers and AR, 7/31/08, by Ima Teacher. Re: Teachers and AR, 8/02/08, by mark. Re: Teachers and AR... to Mark, 8/04/08, by Deb ms/IA. Re: Question, 8/14/08, by matilda. Re: Question, 8/14/08, by it depends. Re: Matilda, 8/19/08, by Yes, they can retake a test, if.

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