AR Book Leveling
Several years ago Renaissance Learning, the creators of the Accelerated
Reader Program, changed the "readability formula" they used to provide grade
leveling of book. The new ATOS formula calculates readability from computer
scans of the full text of each book, rather than from sample passages. The
ATOS level for some books changed, in some cases to higher grade levels, and
in some cases to lower ones.
At Wildwood, we had already been using Accelerated Reader for over 5 years,
and had more than 4000 books in our library marked with their original
reading grade levels. We made a decision not to attempt the relabeling of
all of our AR books in the library. All books purchased in the last 4 years
have the new levels correctly labeled. The reading levels you will find for
all of our AR titles when you use the AR QuizList Online feature are the
correct levels.
AR QuizList Online
Wildwood School Site Council Library/Technology Grant money has
provided us with annual use of QuizList Interactive, an
online search tool for you to use to access our Accelerated
Reader list from your home or public library computer. Thanks,
Site Council!
Click the link below to search online for AR books. You can
search by Author, Title, Subject, and Reading Level. You can
make up a list of AR books together with your child and maintain
it on your computer at home, or print it out to take to the
library or bookstore with you. Happy reading!
Please note: When you type in a book title, do not
type the words "A," "An," or "The" at the beginning. For
example, if you want to find out if we have an AR test for The
Dragonslayers, just type in "Dragonslayers."
Once the book titles you want are displayed, you can click on a
book title to find out what the book is about, and to see the
book's Call Number (location) in our library. If you click on an
author name, a list of all other AR books by that author in our
collection will be displayed.
*Here's our AR link -
Wildwood Elementary AR List
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