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In the Sandifer Elementary Library, students in the 2nd - 5th grades participate in the Accelerated Reader Program. They read special A.R. books, take computerized tests, earn points and win prizes! Students in the 1st grade do not take part at the beginning of school but will begin later in the school year.


Students are encouraged to begin at their individual "comfort levels" and to challenge themselves to progress to more difficult reading levels. Participation is encouraged in a variety of ways. Each year special readers are honored by having their pictures added to the Accelerated Reader Wall of Fame. If students accumulate 100 points during the school year their photos join others from past years. As different goals are met, prizes are awarded. Each month, a list of the "Top Ten Point Earners" is posted. We have contests and rewards given throughout the year to promote individual and class participation.

A.R. test reports are usually taken home weekly. These reports show the tests each student has taken since the beginning of the school year. The total number of points acquired so far is also shown. Points are removed (or "used") at the end of each school year in order for all students to begin the new school year with 0 points.

Students can take two different types of Accelerated Reader tests:

   1. Reading Practice Quizzes (on library books) which award points on passed tests.
   2. Other Reading Quizzes (on selected stories from the classroom reading textbooks) which do not award points but may be used by the classroom teacher to check reading comprehension.
      *Another type of A.R test (Literacy Skills) is not being used by our school.


 

 
 

Wall of Fame

If a student acquires 100 points during the school year,
he/she becomes a member of the Wall of Fame in the
Sandifer Memorial Library.

          Arushi Thakur              Jacob Lawes               Caroline Brock

   
Eli Jones                 Christopher Winter                Sunjay Chawla

   
 Hunter Taylor              Ann Warner Bond                Steele Mims 


Abbie Gillespie              Conner Bready                     Lillian Harvey


Britt Reichle                    Carver O'Neal


 

 

 

Top Ten Point Earners
January 31, 2012

 

     

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  2nd Grade     3rd Grade  
  Christopher Winter 242.5   Arushi Thakur 348.4
  Jacob Lawes 234.5   Caroline Brock 180.2
  Eli Jones 164.9   Carver O'Neal 101.6
  Ann Warner Bond 121.6   Carson Bensley 76.0
  Connor Bready 108.3   Nolan Marshall 73.4
  Steele Mims 106.4   Michael Jefcoat 71.1
  Lillian Harvey 103.9   Hannah Favara 64.8
  Britt Reichle 100.7   Madeline Kelly 63.8
  Dia Chawla 96.7   Havee Johnson 58.6
  Nelson Hodges 87.2   Bella Graham 43.0
        Taylor Giesbrecht 43.0
           
  ***  

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  4th Grade     5th Grade  
  Hunter Taylor 123.9   Sunjay Chawla 122.1
  Pierce Cole 80.4   Abbie Gillespie 100.3
  Shane H. Stephens 70.5   Julia Sharpe 84.5
  Jeffrey Bready 63.6   Mari-Brian Crick 74.0
  Asa Hausner 62.3   Nored Hardin 68.5
  Cavitt Cookston 55.1   John Hollis Tackett 54.9
  Powell Scates 35.1   Kate Harding Mattox 49.7
  Austin Alderman 34.2   Dwayne Jones 37.3
  Payne Hobbs 34.0   Claire Coleman 30.4
  Jonathan Barnes 29.4   William Braswell 28.4
           
           
           
   

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