PCAG believes that studying literature provides students with the tools to better empathize with their neighbor, speak the truth with confidence, and defend their faith. As such, students are taught to analyze as they read, learning to find bias in writing as well as biblical truth. They also learn how to better share their ideas through writing.
readnquiz find a book
We have a new program to encourage and develop reading in our students. Students read a book and then take a quiz on the computer. This program is called ReadnQuiz. Students will only take quizzes at school, but they can access the reading list through the link below to know what books are available for reading.
"Welcome to the Jefferson Middle School Library. It is the place to be from 7:30 AM to 3:30 PM when you are looking for a quiet place to study, research, read, use the computer, or check out a good book. I hope you will come often." - Mrs. Ratliff, Teacher-Librarian
www.bookadventure.com is a free reading comprehension quiz website. It is very similar to Accelerated Reader program used in a lot of public and private schools. You enroll your child with their own login. As a parent you also have a log in. The bookfinder allows you to find a book listing of level appropriate books that interest your child. You can then print this list to go to the library.Each book has a quiz for comprehension that is taken online and then graded immediately. Each book has a point value assigned to it. Students acquire points to win prizes offered by the website. They can print bookmarks to color etc. As the parent you are also able to add prize certificates you want to add such as 500 points for a chocolate shake or a trip to the bookstore etc. We participated in AR in private school and most of the books we read have a quiz in book adventure. This is a great free program. My comments: That sounds really interesting and motivational. It's wonderful that it is free too. I'm going to go and sign up my son right now. Thanks for the tip!More tips on homeschool reading.Helpful hints for all homeschool subjects can be found at home school books.Most Popular Homeschool Pages on this WebsiteFree Homeschool WorksheetsAbeka ReviewSwitched on Schoolhouse Review101 Activities Parents Can do with Their Preschool ChildHomeschool High SchoolMy favorite homeschool resourcesFree Homeschool Planner
For those who choose to homeschool their own children, it is perhaps a little disappointing to find out that the now-digital Accelerated Reader program (and all its useful insights about student reading skill) is not readily available to homeschooling parents.
Reading IQ also supports a variety of ways to reassess the relative difficulty of books, such as Lexile scores, Scholastic Guided Reading and even Accelerated Reader scores, which allow parents to better understand the relative grade appropriateness of what their students are reading.
Overall, however, for less than $10 a month, ReaderIQ can give parents most of the technical functionality of an AR program right in their homeschool while giving students access to some fun and interesting books to read.
Epic contains an extensive catalog of high quality digital books (well over 40, 000 titles) that, like ReadingIQ, can also be helpfully organized by reading difficulty measures, with the app using Accelerated Reader and Lexile Measures to do so.
As kids use Epic and read their books and hit a variety of preset goals, they are awarded badges and unlock achievements, tracking and recognizing their achievements much in the way the AR program would do with points.
Certain books in the library (although, again, not all) come with multiple choice quizzes and assessments that parents can assign or access, giving the app the ability to test and track reading comprehension for many titles.
If you have access to graded reading material, such as the above programs or are a fan of the local library, and just need a little help finding good quality quizzes and tracking them, there are a couple solution out there.
Every book that has an AR Reading Practice Quiz is given a point value. AR points are computed based on the difficulty of the book (ATOS readability level) and the length of the book (number of words).
Visit arbookfind.com and click on Advanced Search. By conducting an advanced search, you can generate book lists that contain titles based on the criteria you enter such as book level, topic, interest level, fiction/nonfiction, etc.
Your library patrons can limit their searches to books in the program. After searching, the quiz number and point value appear in Basic Search, Power Search, and Destiny Discover search results lists, and Title Details.
Works with any book in your school
Identifies which reading and writing skills need extra support
Aligns to your state's standards
Differentiates to meet the needs of each student
When Jaden went to public school, he had the opportunity to participate in the school's Accelerated Reader program. (If you aren't familiar with how AR works, this is a basic run-down: the student reads a book, takes a multiple choice quiz to determine comprehension, and then earns points based on his score. At Jaden's school, kids who earned a certain number of points by a specified deadline were allowed to go on a special field trip.)
When we started homeschooling, I tried to find a similar program that we could participate in from home. In my search, I came across Book Adventure (a website created and maintained by Sylan Learning Center). It's quite similar to Accelerated Reader, and it's totally free. The kids can earn real prizes with their points, and parents can even create their own individualized prizes that can be posted on their child's Book Adventure account when their child sign's in.
Book Adventure is a FREE reading motivation program for children in grades K-8. Children create their own book lists from over 7,000 recommended titles, take multiple choice quizzes on the books they've read, and earn points and prizes for their literary successes.
This is a great resource but I agree with a commenter who said their booklist is extremely limited. I just checked 9 books we brought home from the library and none of them were on it. These are all 4th-6th grade reading level (perhaps higher) so maybe they have more lower level reading tests?
Thank you for this post Joy. I have a child that needs extra help in the comprehension department. I was looking to find an AR alternative for the summer and extra at home help. Your post was most helpful!!
Hello and I have a question: have any of you tried bookadventure? I keep trying but I can't get it to pull up any tests. My kids were so excited to find this site but I just can't get it to work. What could be wrong?
I am so glad that you suggested this program! At first, I tried searching for books by their ISBN but it wasn't bringing anything up. I switched to searching by titles and found a lot of my books there. Great product!
Here's how it works: Once a student has read one of the many books on the AR list (over 151,000 titles!), he or she takes a quiz on one of the school computers. The results are given immediately and AR provides the student a chance to see any missed questions with correct answers. If the student passes the quiz, he or she earns points. The points are stored on the Renaissance Place website and tallied whenever the classroom teacher collects the information (usually at the end of a trimester). 2ff7e9595c
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