Tool: Accelerated Reader

Accelerated Reader is an amazing classroom tool. It provides students with immediate feedback on their reading comprehension and vocabulary. Students will read books at their reading level, then they can take reading and vocabulary quizzes on those books. The feedback on their success is immediate. They can see how they did on this book as well as how they are doing on their reading goals for the trimester as well as they year. They can see and set their goals!

The feedback for teachers is amazing! Teachers are able to see each of their students reading levels. See their strengths and weaknesses on the common core standards. Depending on how the students did teachers can create their working groups.

Evaluation Rubric for Communication Tools

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Curriculum Connection	Communication tool allows students to demonstrate their understanding of curriculum goals i.e. writing for an audience.	Communication tool allows students to demonstrate partial understanding of curriculum goals.	Communication tool does not allow students to demonstrate their understanding of curriculum goals.
User Friendly	Communication tool is easy to navigate and efficient.	Communication tool is somewhat easy to navigate and somewhat efficient.	Communication tool is difficult to navigate and is inefficient.
Feedback	Communication tool provides, immediate, constant, and reliable feedback.	Communication tool provides limited feedback.	Communication tool does not provide feedback.
Differentiation	Communication tool provides differentiation for students of all abilities.	Communication tool provides limited differentiation.	Communication tool does not provide differentiation.
Visual appearance	Communication tool is visually appealing.	Communication tool is somewhat visually appealing.	Communication tool is not visually appealing.
Format (i.e. character count, images, video)	Communication tool provides a format that allows for student engagement and appropriate communication specific to the task or goal.	Communication tool provides limited student engagement and limited communication specific to task or goal.	Communication tool does not provide a format that allows for student engagement or appropriate communication specific to the task or goal.
			18/18