![]() ![]() Then, make sure you choose to sort by author last name and that you also choose “match the number of books owned per title”. To do this, firstly, click on “book labels”. Once all your books are entered on the system, print your labels. Then change the number of copies that you have in the copies box: This will mean you have the correct number of labels to stick inside your books. Tell the system about your duplicate titles. I would really recommend buying a book scanner for this part. Knowing how many duplicate copies you have of a book will save you a lot of headaches when you come to print the labels that go inside your books.Įnter your stock into your AR Book Guide. This seems like a chore but I cannot stress enough how useful this will be in the long term. Now you have a slimmed down stock, organise it onto your shelves in alphabetical order by author last name. (We found a book called Now and Then: now was 1960!) ![]() Have a good clear out of your library stock and get rid of anything you don’t want to keep. We were surprised by just how many books had been hiding away in cupboards in immaculate condition. Set a deadline for when you want to books by. Write and ask parents to look for books at home and encourage staff to root through their stock cupboard. Rhoda Wilson – making all the mistakes with Accelerated Reader so you don’t have to! So…for any schools out there who are yet to sort their Accelerated Reader library, here is how I’d do it next time. It has been a massive headache to be honest and now we’re near the end of the process, I find myself thinking that if I were to do it again, I’d most certainly do it differently. Over the past few weeks, I have been involved in getting our books onto the AR system, ready for September. We have a lots of laptops/iPads in our school so the online quiz element wasn’t going to be a logistical nightmare for us.The library was in a bit of mess and was in need of a system which everyone used and understood.Year 3s coming back to class clutching War and Peace) Children in KS2 were making poor book choices which didn’t match their reading ability (e.g.Each book has an online “quiz” linked to it to assess children’s comprehension of the text.Īs a school we chose to go for Accelerated Reader because:.It has an assessment element:children are assessed and given a range in which to read across.It provides you with a method of banding your library fiction stock (and some non-fiction).For those of you unfamiliar with Accelerated Reader, it has three main elements to it: In a few days time, my school will be launching Accelerated Reader.
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