6th Grade

Accelerated Reader (AR) is 10% of your child's reading grade this year. My goal is to assess your child at least three times during the year using this universal screener to analyze improvement. This first assessment will serve as the benchmark assessment and all other screenings will be compared to it.

Year at a Glance

Quarter 1 (Aug 20 – Oct 21)

Boot Camp Intro (team building, tech tools, goal setting)

Novel: Look Both Ways – First Powerful Paragraph

Short Story Unit – Plot, conflict, figurative language

Quarter 2 (Oct 22 – Jan 20)

Narrative Writing Unit

Novel: Freak the Mighty – Second Powerful Paragraph

Play: The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street

Quarter 3 (Jan 21 – Mar 24)

Novel: The Watsons Go to Birmingham – Third Powerful Paragraph

Argument Reading & Writing Unit – “Should middle & high schools add recess?”

Quarter 4 (Mar 25 – Jun 2)

Poetry Unit – Concrete poem for Open House

Novel: Number the Stars – Literary analysis 

AR Deadlines 2025-2026: Four Quarters/Two Semesters:

6th - 5 Points per quarter

7th (CP) - 10 per quarter 7th (Honors) - 15 per quarter

8th (CP) - 15 per quarter 8th (Honors)  - 20 per quarter

Nonfiction- 90 pages or more requirement. Points don’t matter. 1 per semester.

Quarter #1 - AR Deadline: Tuesday, October 21st

Quarter #2 - AR Deadline: Tuesday, January 20th

1st Semester NF Deadline: Tuesday, January 20th

Quarter #3 - AR Deadline:  Tuesday, March 24th

Quarter #4 - AR Deadline: Tuesday, June 2nd

2nd Semester NF Deadline: Tuesday, June 2nd

-Initial AR slip (s)  for 1st quarter turn in date: Friday, September 6th 

-Last day to change book titles/add extra credit slips for 1st quarter: Friday, September 26th 

Please check with your student regularly to make sure he/she is completing the AR requirement each quarter. Partial grade will be given for students who complete part of the requirement, but your student will feel more successful and continue to improve in reading if he/she completes the entire requirement. You can check your student's AR progress by logging in to his/her account. Follow the directions below:

1. Log on to the AC Stelle website: https://sites.google.com/lvusd.org/acstellemediacenter/arrenlearn?authuser=0

2. Scroll down the Media Center tab until you come to AR Home Connect and click

3. Enter your child's user name (first 5 letters of first name, first 5 letters of last name, last two digits of student ID, last two digits of year born) and password (7-digit student ID).

Your child should be reading at least 30 minutes every day of the week. Please discuss with your child the books he/she reads on a regular basis. To take an AR quiz, your child must bring a permission slip signed by the parent or guardian allowing him/her to read the book. I will sign the form after your child has completed the book and will not sign forms that have not been approved in advance by the parent. As long as your child has your permission, I will allow the book to be read and an AR quiz to be taken.  In addition, your child must read at least one Nonfiction AR book each semester.  The completion of a Nonfiction book will be listed as a separate grade on Aeries. Please remind your student to not wait until the last day!