Grade 6 Accelerated Reader Guidelines
  
The Accelerated Reader program begins in September.  Students will read books and then take a quiz on classroom computers.  Accelerated Reader grades are applied to the student’s literature grade for that quarter.  Accelerated Reader grades are equivalent to a test grade. The Quarterly assignments will be calculated out as a point total.  Students will be required to earn a designated number of points each quarter.  Points are earned by correctly answering quiz questions.  
 
Quarterly assignments for this year are as follows:
 
            First Quarter - 6 points
            Second Quarter – 8 points (must include non-fiction)
            Third Quarter – 10 points 
            Fourth Quarter – 12 points (must include non-fiction)
 
Students will supply their teacher with a book proposal to inform us of the book(s) they will be reading.  Book lists with reading levels and point values are available online at 
www.arbookfind.com
Teachers have the option to veto any choices that are not appropriate (based on reading level, duplicates, class books, etc.)  Students may read only one book per author. Books must have a minimum point value above 1.0.  
 
It is the student’s responsibility to locate Accelerated Reader books of their choice.  Classrooms and the SJA library have a variety of books available. 
 
The following books are exempt for Room 17: 
       Bridge to Terabithia
       No More Dead Dogs
       Stargirl
       Whipping Boy
       The Westing Game
       The Egypt Game 
      View from Saturday
       Wonder