The goal is simple. Bridger Elementary’s community council wants students reading at home for 20 minutes. Now they need to find out if kids are doing it. The community council has created a survey to find out if students are reading at home.
“We know that reading at home makes a big impact on if they’re reading in their zone of proximal development,” said Jed Grunig, the principal of Bridger. “So it’s just hard enough to challenge them, but not too hard that they can’t be successful independently reading it.”
The survey asks for the students’ grade, amount of days they read at home, the minutes they read each day and if they met their AR, accelerated reading goal. The students AR determines what difficulty of books they should read.
“It’s based on their STAR assessment,” said Carrie Curtis, the literacy coach for Bridger.
STAR used to stand for Standardized Testing for the Assessment of Reading, but has created tests for other subjects. This is the first year Bridger Elementary has given the STAR assessments monthly. It breaks students into four different categories to show them how close to grade level in a certain subject they are.
“With their STAR assessment they take what grade level they are at and how many minutes they are supposed to read each night and then there is a formula that calculates how many points they need for a given amount of time,” Curtis said.
Grunig is interested to see if there are any correlations between reading at home and how students do on their STAR reading assessments.
“It might be good to share with parents too,” Grunig said.
After each STAR test the student is immediately given feedback.
“They’re so excited to take it again to see what they’ve learned in the last month,” Curtis said.
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