Welcome to our Beaumont ISD At-Home Support page!   

Parents, please see the information below which will help support the practice of daily reading at home.

How much should I schedule for my child to read at home each day?

Research supports a minimum of 20 minutes of daily reading every day to support reading level growth, fluency, and vocabulary acquisition.  

* For PreK and Kinder students, it is important to read to them as they follow along in the book, making connections with the pictures and the words.  Emerging readers need to be exposed to the cadence, words, and rhythm of story telling to help build their foundational reading skills. 

* For older students (3rd grade and up) who are able to read independently, try to foster independent reading time of at least 20 minutes per day, every day.  Remember, reading aloud to your child does not stop when the child is older.  Please continue to offer read-aloud time with your child. Shared reading is also fun, where the parent/guardian reads one page and the child reads another.  This is a very beneficial practice!

* If you are worried about your child's performance on the STAAR assessment, remember that your child's ability to read is a HUGE factor in STAAR performance success -- not just on the reading tests, but on every other test as well, including math.   One of the best things you can do to prepare your child for the STAAR test is to ensure they are reading each day and responding to the reading through writing.

How can I check my child's progress on AR through Home Connect?

Go to https://tinyurl.com/ARcheckBISD

The user name is your child's ID/Lunch Number @bmtisd.com and the password is your child's birthday -- two digit month, day, year (January 18, 2015 would be 011815)

What else can we do to foster comprehension when reading?

Responding to reading through writing will greatly help to solidify your child's comprehension of what was read.  We offer many different reading response organizers below.  Feel free to print and use as needed.

As your child finishes reading for the day, have him or her briefly summarize what happened in the book and add to it during each reading session.  This will help your child to remember important events, allows you to review the book contents with them, and will also help prepare them for their AR quiz over the book (Kinder through 8th grade students have access to Accelerated Reader).

How can I ensure my child has a wide range of books from which to choose?

Beaumont ISD makes it easy for you!  EVERY Beaumont ISD student, PreK - 12th grade has thousands of books available online through the MyOn digital library!  These books can be accessed on any desktop computer, smartphone, ipad, or Kindle Fire HD.  Plus, you can use an old smartphone or device. Simply go to a place with free WiFi, such as our local McDonald's, open the MyOn platform on the smartphone/device, log in to MyOn, and you can download up to 20 books onto the device to read offline at home.  No WiFi needed once the books are downloaded!  

Additionally, our Beaumont public libraries are an incredibly rich resource to check out books for free.  See below for Beaumont public library locations.

How do I know if a book is on Accelerated Reader?

Simply go to www.arbookfind.com to type in the name of the book or author.  You can then search for the particular book and see how many points it is worth for AR, the reading level of the book, and more.

Can we take AR tests at home (K - 8th grade)?

We do not allow AR testing at home.  Students are encouraged to take AR tests over the books they have read at their campus.  

To access MyOn, go through their Classlink:  https://launchpad.classlink.com/bmtisd

Remember, you have thousands of engaging books available to you for FREE on MyOn.