Some of you may be getting questions about completion of AR tests at home during the closure. AR testing will not be completed at home. Please see the information below from our Curriculum & Instruction Department to help you respond to any questions.
We will follow the same guidelines that I sent to you in an earlier email about “not requiring any tests, quizzes, work from students while we are under a state of emergency”. Programs like Dreambox that can be accessed at home and used for PRACTICE are fine….because we are not requiring that and it isn’t tied to a grade. We want students to continue to read while at home. I would encourage them to make notes, summarize, and discuss their readings from AR books with parents so that they will be ready to take AR tests when they return to school. I would even say utilizing these notes while taking the test at school would be appropriate. What a great time for our students to practice some of these skills that we teach them to do with their reading!
This link has some great question stems to help students in comprehension. These would be great conversation starters for parents when reading at home with students and they are aligned to standards.
https://www.scholastic.com/teachers/blog-posts/meghan-everette/17-18/Parent-Question-Stems-for-ELA/
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