Did you know you can.....

• Look up available quizzes
• Take AR quizzes during the summer months!
• Access your student's AR progress

All from the comfort of your own home!

Summer Reading Newsletter

Summer Reading Goals - Grades 1-8

AR Book Quiz Click the link to take a quiz. (Grades 1-8)

During the summer months your student can participate in the Summer Reading Program by using this link to take AR quizzes from home! Please click Summer-Reading to ask questions regarding our summer reading program.

Using AR for the Summer

AR BookFinder

AR Book Finder allows you to look up the availability of a quiz for any book, as well as the reading level, interest level, and point value of any book. This site is available year round.

AR HomeConnect

Login here to see a record of what your child has read and how he or she has performed on AR quizzes, you will also see a link from this site to AR Book Finder. User your student's AR login to access the site.

Review Sites

The following sites provide reviews to help you in selecting appropriate reading material for your child.

Focus On the Family

This site from Focus on the Family provides a limited number of book reviews. While the site is primarily reviewing secular books, Focus on the Family provides a Christian perspective in determining the appropriateness of the content.

Common Sense Media

This secular site reviews a large selection of books, providing plot summaries and analyses of potentially inappropriate content.

Christian Reviewer

This site specifically reviews Christian literature.

Public Library Book Hive

This public library site provides reviews and plot summaries of many children’s and young adults’ books.

ODCS Summer 2011 Reading - Grades 1-8

Reading during the summer is critical for students to prepare for academic success the next school year. Elementary and Middle School students will participate again this summer in an incentive-based reading program through our Accelerated Reader (AR) program.

Grades 1 – 8

Beginning June 13, AR will be available for home use during the summer, allowing students to take AR quizzes on the books they are reading from any computer with internet access. By using AR, students and parents can easily keep track of reading progress, and the school will have a record for awarding the incentives for reaching reading goals.

We have established three different reading targets for our students:

• Good
  • Typically achieved by reading 30 – 60 minutes per week.
  • Students earn a pizza party with their current teacher at the start of school.

• Better
  • Typically achieved by reading 90 – 120 minutes per week.
  • Students also earn a dress down pass and a homework pass.

• Best
  • Typically achieved by reading 3 hours per week
  • Students earn an additional dress down pass and homework pass.
  • Any points earned in excess of the “Better” level may be used in the end-of-summer AR store (see school website under the library link for details).
  • Top readers in each grade level are eligible for bonus prizes.
     

NOTE: To count a book for the “Good” level, students must still take the AR quiz. If a book does not have an AR quiz, please contact the office to discuss how to apply the book to the summer reading goals.

See the librarian for a password to access these sites from home.

Thousands of essays on major topics and issues in science, math and technology, along with illustrations, experiments, activities and biographies.

Articles about more than a half-million people, most in full text, from around the world, both living and dead.

A collection of full-text newspapers available online. More than 15 titles are Ohio publications.

See the librarian for a password to access these sites from home.

This fun, lively interface lets young researchers explore various subjects and interesting sources of information

Searchasaurus is an exciting and easy way for young researchers to  search Ebsco resources. 

This extensive database provides students with thousands of easy-to-read entries about mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish, dinosaurs and prehistoric animals.

Classroom Displays and Bulletin Boards

INFOhio's Core Collection provides resources free to all Ohio K-12 students and educators for the 2008-2009 school year.

The Ohio Area Instructional Media Centers Digital Video Collection includes hundreds of digital videos that have been made available at no cost to Ohio K-12 districts.

Thousands of K-12 Web sites to explore! Links to magazine and newspaper articles, encyclopedia articles and more from the Core Collection.