WHAT IS AR?

WHY DOES MY CHILD USE IT?

HOW DOES IT WORK?

WHAT IS A BOOK LEVEL?

WHY DO THEY TALK ABOUT DIFFERENT COLORED DOTS?

WHAT IS THEIR AR LEVEL?

WHAT IS STAR?

***If you want to know the answers to all these questions, watch Mrs. Ferguson explain it all in the video below.

www.arbookfind.com

Try out the website and look up the information on your books at home.

Use a post-it or index card and tuck it in the front if you don't want to write in your books.

***Remember--IF you bring your personal book to school, please make sure your name is in it!!!!

READING WEBSITES--This is a list of resources for reading.

The age range varies from site to site.

http://internet.savannah.chatham.k12.ga.us/schools/mhes/staff/hinely/Shared%20Documents/Reading/Reading%20Websites.pdf

AR HOME CONNECT!

Video coming soon!

VA Reader's Choice Contest

This contest has been going on for decades. The VA State Reading Association, each year, chooses 10 books in four categories: Primary K-2, Elementary 3-5, Middle 6-8, and High School 9-12. These books are chosen by a committee using their agreed-upon criteria. The books are current and often highlight VA authors and other popular titles, many that you have even seen at the book fairs and on other awards lists. In order to be eligible to vote students must read at least four (or more) books in a category--to vote in that category. For example, you must read 4 books in the Middle school category to vote for a Middle school book. You can't read 2 in the elementary and 2 in the middle and still vote. You can vote in as many categories as you read at least 4 books in that category. At Macy I read the Primary category to all students in grades K-3 and we vote in library class sometime in April. The elementary and middle school categories are for students in 3rd-7th to read on their own at least 4 books to be eligible to vote. However, there are usually 2 shorter books in the elementary category that I will read and discuss in Library class. That way students only need to read 2 more on their own to be eligible to vote. I host a 'Voting Party' in the library in April for students in grades 3-7 who are eligible to vote. They must have read and taken an AR test (scored 70% or better) on 4 or more books in a category to be eligible to vote, and thus eligible to attend the party. Students who read 4 (or more) in both the elementary AND middle categories are eligible to vote in both categories and usually receive a small prize from me. I encourage students to read as many books as possible in each category. I purchase multiple copies of each book to give students ample opportunity to be able to read. Along with my copies, the Pearisburg Public Library also carries the books and they appear often in the classroom book orders and teacher's personal classroom libraries.

*Ask your child if they have read any of these books for this year's contest. Which ones would they be interested in reading?

(Next year's titles have already been announced---great summer reading list!!!)

Check out the VA Reader's Choice website for more details:

https://www.vsra.org/virginia-readers-choice-program

PARTICIPATE FROM HOME!!!

GO TO THE TABS IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER-CHOOSE VA READERS CHOICE!!

LISTEN TO THE BOOKS AND GET READY TO VOTE!!!

Try to listen to ALL THE BOOKS AVAILABLE IN THE PRIMARY CATEGORY AND VOTE ON YOUR FAVORITE!

***I am updating the books often until we get all 10 primary books. Keep checking back!

SEND ME AN E-mail of which books your family likes best and any reveiws you have and I will add them to the page. Your e-mail gives me permission to include your comments on my page---UNLESS you state otherwise.

Tracy Ferguson---tferguson@gilesk12.net