On the Student Goals tab of the Record Book, you can set goals, change goals, and view progress toward goals.
Before you come to this tab for the first time, you'll be asked to choose your goal model. This version of the Student Goals tab is used when you select the K-2 goal model; if your class is using the goal model for grades 3-5 or grades 6 and up, see AR Student Goals for Grades 3-5 or 6+ instead.
The K-2 goal model is an engaging goal system recommended for younger students. When students read books or articles and pass Reading Practice Quizzes, Other Reading Quizzes, or Article Quizzes, they earn tokens and character badges to celebrate their reading. You can select the K-2 goal model when you first turn on goals; you can also select it in the Reading Goals Model preference for your class. Note: The K-2 goal model counts books that are worth 0.5 points, 1 point, and 2 points; books worth more points don't count toward these goals, but they are shown to students.
If you do not want students to take Article Quizzes, you can use the Article Quiz Availability preference to turn off articles and article quizzes for your school.
How to Open the Record Book's Student Goals Tab
Who can do this with default permissions?
District Level Administrators, School Level Administrators, Teachers*
*Other users cannot set goals; they can view any goals that have been set, but they cannot change them.
If you have a Home page tile like the first example below, to open the Accelerated Reader Record Book, select Accelerated Reader Independent Reading. If your home page is Renaissance Next, select AR under My Apps on the left side of the page as shown in the second example below.
When you have opened the Accelerated Reader Record Book, the Student Goals tab is selected by default; if you have selected a different tab, select Student Goals as shown below.
Selecting the School and Class
At the top of the page, you will see a School drop-down list if you have access to more than one school and a Class drop-down list if you have access to more than one class. Use the drop-down list(s) to select the school and class whose information you want to view. You can view information for one class at a time.
Once you select a school and class, you'll see a school year summary for the class as a whole, which includes the overall average book level, the total number of books read, the total number of articles read, the percentage of reading that was nonfiction, and the total number of words read.
Viewing K-2 Goals
Once you have selected the K-2 goal model, Accelerated Reader starts by setting goals based on the following:
- your students' Star Reading test results (if your students took the Star Reading test) or your students' grade levels (if no tests were taken)
- the amount of daily reading time per weekday (30 minutes by default)
- the number of days students are attending during the school year (based on the first and last days for students, which are set up when the administrator adds the school year)
K-2 goals are for the students' entire school year, not individual marking periods.
You will see each student's average percent correct, the number of quizzes they have passed that apply to the goal, and the reading range.
For average percent correct, a green arrow pointing up means the student's average is above 80% (the recommendation), and a red arrow pointing down
means the student's average is below 80%.
Under the number of quizzes the student passed, you will see if the student has not passed any quizzes yet. If the student is passing quizzes at a rate that makes it likely the goal will be met, you will see
. If the student is not passing quizzes fast enough to meet the goal at the current rate, you will see
. If the student meets the goal exactly, you will see
. If the student passes more quizzes than is required for the goal, you will see
. You will also see the percentage of the goal that the student has completed; you can compare this percentage to the percent of the marking period that has passed, which is shown below the "Reading Goals" heading (for K-2 goals, the marking period is the school year).
Reading ranges encourage students to read within the range of book levels that is set in the Record Book (shown below the status); students see that range on both their Reading/book ideas page and their progress page. The status in the Record Book shows you how much of the student's reading is below, in, and above the expected range. If the student reads in both English and Spanish, and ranges are set for both, the graph and percentages are based on both English and Spanish reading.
| Message | What It Means |
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| The student has taken Accelerated Reader quizzes, but no reading range has been set yet for either English or Spanish. Edit goals to set reading ranges and see progress. | |
| 60% or more of the student's reading has included books and articles with levels that are within the reading range (the percentage is based on points, not number of quizzes passed). The student's average percent correct is at or above 60%, so the student seems to be comprehending what they read. | |
| 50% or more of the student's reading has included books and articles with levels below the reading range, though the student's average percent correct is at or above 60%. The student's current reading is not challenging enough based on the range. | |
| 50% or more of the student's reading has included books and articles with levels above the reading range, and the student's average percent correct is below 60%. The student appears to be reading material that is too challenging. | |
This message appears when:
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Average percent correct and reading range include all books/articles the student has taken Reading Practice, Other Reading, or Article Quizzes for, regardless of whether they count toward the student's Quizzes Taken goals. (The point levels that count toward the goal depend on the student's ZPD; see the Goal-Setting Chart for Emerging Readers for details. Books worth more than 2 points do not count toward badge goals.)
You can sort the students by name, average percent correct, or quizzes passed by selecting one of the headings.
Editing K-2 Goals
To change goals for students in your class, select Edit Goals. You can then choose settings for individual students or all students at once.
Editing Goals for Individual Students
If you want to edit goals of individual students, do the following:
- To change the English or Spanish reading range for a student, click in the fields and change the numbers. If no ranges have been added, select Add under the English or Spanish heading; then, enter the range. For ATOS book levels, you can enter whole numbers or numbers with one decimal place (such as "5" or "5.4"). For Lexile® measures, enter whole numbers for the goal (omit the "L") or "BR" for all BR levels. Below the fields, if the student has passed quizzes during the goal time period, you'll see the student's actual average book levels in English and Spanish, and if the student has taken a Star test, you'll see the student's Zone of Proximal Development and the test date.
- If you want to change the goal for the number of quizzes passed, select Goal Calculator under the student's name.
- In the Goal Calculator, use the Daily Reading Time drop-down list to choose the number of minutes you expect this student to read every weekday (excluding days off): 15 (recommended), 20, 30, 35, 45, or 60 minutes. This affects the number of quizzes the student can be expected to pass; more reading should lead to the student passing more quizzes.
- If the student has taken more than one English Star Reading test this school year, use the Baseline Test drop-down list to choose which reading range to base the student's goals on; the ranges may be shown as Zones of Proximal Development or Lexile® ranges. The ranges shown are based on the student's test scores; you will also see the test date next to each range. Note: If the student took multiple tests on the same day, only the latest test for that date will be shown in the drop-down list.
If the student has not taken a Star Reading test, enter the student's grade level/equivalent (in grade.month format) that you want to base goals on. - Use the Reading Range drop-down list to choose the type of goal that you want to set: Full ZPD (based on the baseline test or the grade equivalent), Moderate (the lower end of the student's Zone of Proximal Development or Lexile® range), or Ambitious (the upper end of the student's ZPD or Lexile® range). Students will see their reading range on on their Accelerated Reader Reading/book ideas page and on their progress page.
If your class is using Lexile® measures instead of ATOS book levels (as set in the Lexile® Goals preference), you can also use the Goal Calculator to set the Spanish Reading Range. If the student has taken a Star Reading Spanish test, you can select a Spanish baseline test and then select a Reading Range just as you did for English. If the student has not taken a Star Reading Spanish test, you can enter a Grade Equivalent and select the Reading Range as for English.
- If you want to update the goal for the number of quizzes passed based on the new selections, check Update Quiz Goal. (If the student does not have a Star test, the check box is under the daily reading time, and the update is based on daily reading time and grade.)
- When you're done choosing the goal options, select Apply. The student's goals will be updated based on your selections, and you can make adjustments if necessary. (If you decide not to use the Goal Calculator once you have opened it, click outside the window to close it.)
Editing Goals for Multiple Students
If you want to choose goal settings for multiple students, use the drop-down lists at the top of the page.
Follow these steps:
- First, click the Select Students drop-down list. When the list opens, check the students whose goals you want to change, or click Select All to check all of the students. When you're done, click out of the drop-down list to close it.
- If students have taken Star Reading tests, use the Star Reading Range For drop-down list to choose which Star test score to use for goals. The score that you select determines the Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) or Lexile® Range for each student. You can choose the first test each student took this school year, the latest test (recommended), each student's best test score, or the Star Reading test that is already selected for each of the students. If some of your students have not taken Star Reading tests, their grade levels will be used instead to determine the ZPD or Lexile® Range. Note: This drop-down list is not available if none of the students in the class have taken Star Reading tests.
- The Daily Reading Time setting is optional; use the drop-down list to choose the amount of reading that you expect students to do each weekday except for days off (15, 20, 30, 35, 45, or 60 minutes). This helps to determine how many quizzes the students can be expected to pass.
- If you chose to use reading ranges when you selected the goal model, you can use the Reading Range drop-down list to choose whether to set each student's reading range as their full Zone of Proximal Development (ZPD) or Lexile® Range, the lower portion only (Moderate), or the upper portion only (Ambitious).
Use the Set Reading Range for drop-down list to choose whether to use the selected options to choose whether to set reading ranges for English, Spanish, both languages, or none. The options that are available depend on the setting of the class Lexile® Goals preference. If your class uses ATOS book levels, only English reading ranges can be set based on Star Reading test results, though you can add Spanish reading ranges manually later. If your class uses Lexile® measures instead of ATOS book levels, both English and Spanish ranges can be set based on Star test results (for students who have have taken both Star Reading English and Star Reading Spanish tests). - After making your selections, select Generate New Goals.
- In the message that opens, select Yes, update selected students if you want to continue and update the students' goals, or No, don't update if you decide not to continue.
- Review each student's goals and make adjustments if necessary. When you're ready to save goals and leave the page, select Save Goals. (If you decide not to save your changes, select Cancel Edit; then, select Delete Changes to confirm that you want to leave editing without saving your changes.)
If you don't set goals for your students, when students view their progress, they will see default badge goals based on their latest Star score (or grade level if no Star test is available) and 30 minutes of daily reading.
Changing the Goal Model for the Class
Generally, it is best to choose a goal model at the beginning of the school year and then continue with that goal model to avoid changing how students see their goals. However, if you find that another model would work better for your students, or if you want to change a model as students begin goals for a new marking period, follow these steps:
- Select Edit Goals.
- Select Change Goal Model. Note: If this option is not available, you don't have the user permissions required to change the goal model.
- On the Edit Goal Theme page, choose the goal model that you want to use for the class.
More about the goal models available
There are three goal models available: Recommended for Grades K-2, Recommended for Grades 3-5, and Recommended for Grades 6+.
Recommended for Grades K-2
This is an engaging goal model for the youngest students. Students earn tokens when they pass quizzes, and those tokens count toward character badges. Teachers select the student Star test scores (or grade levels) to base goals on; then, they set the expected amount of daily reading time. Based on these selections, the software calculates each student's goal for passed quizzes for the students' entire school year (not individual marking periods). Goals are based on the number of tokens required for each badge because students see the goals in terms of how many badges they need to earn.
Recommended for Grades 3-5
In this goal model, teachers set goals for students' average percent correct, points earned, and reading range; these goals are selected for specific marking periods. When students view their progress, their points earned are represented by a rocket traveling toward a planet, and students can see how close they are to the goal, how much time is left, and whether they are on track to meet their goal. A gauge shows students whether they are meeting their average percent correct goal; a message tells the student more about how their book selection matches the reading range. Students can also see information about their reading, including the number of quizzes they have passed, the number of words they have read, the percentage of fiction and nonfiction they have read, and the percentage of Spanish and English reading they have done (for students who read in Spanish). Below that, students can see their Star Reading and Star Math scores if they have scores from the selected marking period. A Marking Period drop-down list lets students see whether they met past goals.
Recommended for Grades 6+
This goal model is similar to the model for grades 3-5, but using images that are suitable for older students. As in the grade 3-5 model, teachers set marking period goals for students' average percent correct, points earned, and reading range. Students see all the same information that they see in the grades 3-5 model; however, instead of a rocket, students are shown their points progress on a bar graph.
- Select Save Changes. In the message that opens, select Yes, Change Theme if you want to to continue and change the theme, or select No, Go Back if you want to make a different selection. (If you decide not to change the goal model at all, select Cancel on the Edit Goal Theme page.)
What Students See When They View Progress
When you use the K-2 goal model, students don't see their goals the same way that you do.
For each Reading Practice Quiz, Other Reading Quiz, or Article Quiz that a student passes, the student receives a token. The token looks like a star if they get some questions wrong or a trophy
if they answer all of the questions correctly. The software will tell the student about the new token when the student chooses to view progress after taking a quiz.
On the student's Progress tab, the tokens fill up the circles for a character badge. When the student starts working on a badge, the student sees the outline of the character, how many tokens have been filled in so far, and how many the student needs to fill in to finish the badge.
By selecting a badge, the student can see the books that counted toward that badge.
In the example above, the student has passed enough Reading Practice, Other Reading, and Article Quizzes to finish one badge (Hardey). The student is working on the second badge, which shows the outline of a mole. By selecting that badge, the student can see that their quizzes on five books count toward the second badge. The student needs to pass one more quiz to earn that badge.
When the student has passed enough quizzes for the badge, the next time the student chooses to see their progress, the student will see an animation as the character is revealed. In the example below, the student has passed one more quiz and can now see the second character, Mosey.
Students see their goal in the top right corner of the area that applies. Goals are expressed as the number of badges to earn. In the examples above, the student needs to earn 8 badges during the school year.
The number of points that a book is worth determines which set of badges a book counts toward:
- Greenwood Glen is for 0.5-point books. In this area, 6 tokens are required to earn each badge.
- Timber Park is for 1-point books. In this area, 3 tokens are required to earn each badge.
- Pinnacle Peak is for 2-point books. In this area, 2 tokens are required to earn each badge.
- Boundary Wilds is for books that don't apply to the goal; it gives students a way to see the quizzes they passed for those books. These books may be worth more than 2 points, or they may simply have a point value that doesn't apply to the goal. For example, if a student takes a quiz on a 2-point book, but the student's goal is for 0.5-point books and 1-point books, the book will be shown in Boundary Wilds.
The goal areas that are shown to the student depend on the student's Star score or grade level, and the goals themselves are based on that information plus the amount of daily reading practice that you select for the student. For more detailed information about the goals that are set based on Star scores and daily reading practice, see the Goal-Setting Chart for Emerging Readers.
If you are using reading ranges, students also see the best book levels to choose from for the language(s) you've set reading ranges for.
Viewing One Student's Details
For more information about one student's work, select the student's name.
Other Tabs in the Record Book
To see the quizzes your students have taken, select the Latest Quiz tab.
To see how much reading bilingual students are doing in Spanish and English, select the Biliteracy Report tab.
Going to Other Accelerated Reader Pages
At the top of the page, you'll see links to other Accelerated Reader pages:
- Reports will take you to the Reports page and the Accelerated Reader / Reading Practice tab. For more about reports, see Accelerated Reader Reports.
- Manage Books & Quizzes will take you to the Manage Content page, where you can add teacher-made quizzes, manage books, or view information about reading practice quizzes, other reading quizzes, literacy skills quizzes, vocabulary practice quizzes, and article quizzes. You can also take sample quizzes.
- Reading Snapshots lets you create images or counters that share your students' progress on reading or reading goals.
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