1. Adairsville Middle School TIGERS READING Program

2. What we’re doing, and things you might be able to use...

3. Why it works: Collaboration Collaboration Administrative Support Administrative Support Time Time Perseverance Perseverance

4. Components of the program: Scholastic Reading Inventory Scholastic Reading Inventory Scholastic Reading Counts! Scholastic Reading Counts! Reading Tigers Reading Tigers

5. SRI uses Lexile measurement. Interpreted as a book level that a student can read with 75% comprehension 75% comprehension is the level identified by experts as offering the reader a certain amount of comfort and yet still offering a challenge

6. Lexile Equivalents AMS Targets Grade 6 – 1000L Grade 7 – 1100L Grade 8 – 1200L

7. SRI determines Lexile level and range. 920L 820 - 970

8. AMS students who are currently at or above Target: 6 th : 56 of 239 7 th : 57 of 242 8 th : 75 of 237

9. Reading Counts! RC can be configured to allow student to take a quiz more than once. RC has a bank of 30 questions for each quiz, so each quiz taken is a little different. Why do we use RC rather than AR? FLEXIBILITY!

10. Reading Counts!

12. Reading Tigers Originated and designed by the teachers. AMS ELA

13. Some Statistics... Number of quizzes passed/books read last year: 6-1 1,147 = 15.5 books per student 6-2 1,490 = 18.2 6-3 1,251 = 16.5 7-1 1,626 = 22 7-2 1,068 = 14.4 7-3 718 = 10 8-1 1,324 = 17 8-2 1,158 = 15 8-3 669 = 8.8 Total 10,451 books read (quizzes passed) Average 15.3 books per student read this year. (Some have read none, some have read far more, of course.)

14. Some Statistics... Students who read 25 books last year: 6-1 23 6-2 25 6-3 20 7-1 25 7-2 30 7-3 11 8-1 15 8-2 19 8-3 25 TOTAL 191 out of 689 students

15. Some Statistics... Lexile goals met (or maintained grade target) at end of second semester: 6-1 28 6-2 32 6-3 33 7-1 40 7-2 60 7-3 31 8-1 29 8-2 24 8-3 46 Gateway 64 Henderson 7 TOTAL 394 out of 689 students

16. How it all works, from four perspectives: ELA Teacher ELA Teacher Student Support Teacher Student Support Teacher Media Specialist Media Specialist Administration Administration

17. Marie Carney ELA Teacher

18. Elizabeth Henderson Student Support ELA Teacher

19. Tommy Tatum Media Specialist

20. Suzi Lance Assistant Principal

21. Adairsville Middle School

28. Some final thoughts...

29. Adairsville Middle School TIGERS READING