Central PTA News

The PTA recently purchased an additional 64 AR quizzes which include all the Rebecca Caudill and Monarch nominees from the current school year and next year. Mrs. Durbin and Mrs. Bieschke supplied us with the quizzes this week and they were added to the website. You can access the Accelerated Reader information in a variety of ways:

You can use the online Accelerated Reader tool. Please let me know if you have any trouble using it.

You can download all 5823 AR tests as an Excel spreadsheet or as a PDF.

Here is a list of just the new titles:

Thanks,
Chris Hajer

Mrs. Loulousis supplied us with an additional 208 AR quizzes this week. You can access the Accelerated Reader information in a variety of ways:

You can use the online Accelerated Reader tool. Please let me know if you have any trouble using it.

You can download them as an Excel Spreadsheet:

• The whole list of 5759 quizzes
• Just the updates from 4-18-06

You can download them as a PDF:

• The whole list of 5759 quizzes
• Just the updates from 4-18-06

Thanks,
Chris

In case you are searching for the Accelerated Reader online, it can be found here. All previously posts were written before this was functional. Check it out.

http://www.centralptanews.org/AR/ar.php

The permanent link to it can be found on the lower right hand of the website, under Reference, and is called “Accelerated Reader”.

The Central School AR (accelerated reader) lists are also available on the Riverside Library computer. Check it out next time you’re at the library.

If you chair a PTA event, please remember to send any print material (fliers, notices, etc.) to Chris Hajer (chrishajer@gmail.com) to be posted on the Central PTA web page. Keep using the web page to keep track of what is happening in the school. http://www.centralptanews.org/

Mrs. Loulousis provided an updated list of AR quizzes which are now available.

If you’ve never downloaded a list of quizzes before, grab one of these complete documents:

Complete AR Quiz Lists:
Microsoft Excel format
Adobe PDF

If you already downloaded the version from 10/25/05, you can download just the new quizzes:

Updates Only (new since 10/25/05):
Microsoft Excel (new quizzes only)
Adobe PDF (new quizzes only)

In the near future, the quizzes will also be available for searching by author and title online. Until then, please download them and view them on your computer.

Thanks.

UPDATE: 2/18/06 The Accelerated Reader lists are also available online. This information was published before the online access was enabled. The following paragraphs are now old information.

The Accelerated Reader quiz list is now available online. It is currently available for download as an Excel spreadsheet or as a PDF. Please note: the Excel spreadsheet is 724KB and the PDF is 412KB (and 90 pages!), which means downloading either will take a long time. I would not recommend downloading either version unless you have a broadband connection (DSL or cable) or a lot of free time.

The PDF cannot be sorted or edited, so if you have Microsoft Excel, I would recommend downloading the Excel spreadsheet rather than the PDF. Either one can be searched.

wait a couple more days and the data will be available online with a variety of options for displaying and sorting it. If you have a request, please post a comment on this article below. For example, if you’d like to be able to sort the list by author, then reading level, please post a comment to that effect. If you want to be able to see all books with a reading level between 4.0 and 5.0, we can do that too. Just post a comment with your request. All comments are moderated, which means it won’t be published on the site until it is approved by someone.

p.s. Please thank Mrs. Loulousis for getting us this information when you see her.