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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 Site Map next post skip topic Print | Share | Report Post Re: What's the easiest way to grade? Posted by Deb ms/IA on 8/20/08 In my 8th grade class this is how I grade AR. it is weighted as 25percent of the total grade in reading (tests - 40 percent, 15 percent homework, 10 percent projects, 10 percent Skills Iowa - just in case you want to know the other grading components. In AR I grade on percent of goal made every week. We have nine week quarters so they have nine weeks to complete their 100 percent goal for the quarter. Each week I move the goal up by about 10percent. So its a revolving grade that increases. At quarter mid term progress report time they are to have 50 percent complete and at the end of the quarter they are to have the entire goal for that nine weeks complete. As for points 20 percent equals 20 points on up each week to the 100 percent goal. If they complete the goal they get 100 points. IF they complete 75 percent of the goal they get 75 points. I also grade on the average they are passing quizzes. AR says the kids are growing if they pass at 85 percent or above. So this is also done weekly it is based on 100 points (the ultimate percentage passed) on down to whatever percent they are passing. So if they are passing quizzes at 800 percent they get 80 points, 100 percent is 100 points. I check and grade this weekly and discuss it with the kids during my weekly status of the class time. I then give points for vocabulary as several quizzes now have matching vocab quizzes. This is also done on a 100 point scale and updated weekly. If students don't take vocab quizzes (mostly because in the past there haven't been too many vocab quizzes) I just leave the grade blank. So if they are passing vocab at 85 percent they get 85 points. So in AR I give three grades, goal made, average passing quizzs and vocab. Is that as clear as mud? Deb ms/IA RESPOND TO THIS POST START A NEW THREAD RETURN TO CHATBOARD Posts on this thread, including this one What's the easiest way to grade?, 8/20/08, by Carrie . Re: What's the easiest way to grade?, 8/20/08, by Deb ms/IA. Re: What's the easiest way to grade?, 8/22/08, by Carrie. Re: What's the easiest way to grade?, 8/31/08, by Francie. Re: What's the easiest way to grade?, 8/31/08, by modify as needed for IEP kids.

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