Action 100 RtI Accountability System

100 Book Challenge® Teacher Handbook

The Teacher Handbook is a vital and comprehensive resource for any teacher using 100 Book Challenge. The handbook provides blackline masters, instructions for implementation of every aspect of the program, tips for addressing common concerns, detailed descriptions of the book leveling system, and materials to encourage parent participation. Spanish translations of many of the materials for students and parents are also included.

IRLA: Independent Reading Level Assessment®

American Reading Company’s IRLA provides core national standards for reading proficiency, grades PreK–12. The IRLA allows educators to determine a student’s current level of reading proficiency, diagnose areas of strength and weakness, formulate an Action Plan for next steps, and track progress on a daily basis using books the students have chosen to read because they want to read them.

Students need to know where they stand in relation to grade-level expectations. The IRLA will help teachers show students where they are, where they should be, and what skills and behaviors lie in between. Through regular conferences, teachers and students outline and track a course of correction, acceleration, or maintenance for each student and his or her family.

KidPace 3

Kidpace 3 enables teachers to manage 100 Book Challenge progress—with ease and accuracy. Teachers can track reading progress, analyze results, identify struggling readers, and celebrate successes. KidPace requires teachers to spend just ten minutes per marketing period to update progress for their classrooms, and KidPace does the rest.

Reading Skills Cards

Identify what a student needs to know and be able to do at each reading level

Written in student and parent friendly language, the Reading Skills Cards travel between school and home daily providing guidelines for teachers, parents and students as to the skills and strategies (standards) that must be mastered at each level. Comprehension questions are keyed to the higher order thinking skills required by high stakes tests.

100 Book Challenge Smart Start modules include 250–340 cards reflecting the reading levels of your students.

On-Target Badge

Each 15 minutes of reading practice counts as one Step. Students are expected to read for 11 Steps a week, for a minimum of 400 Steps (100 hours) per year. Teachers, administrators, and office staff, wear the weekly target number of Reading Steps around their necks. This simple gesture makes it clear that every student in the school is expected to do enough reading practice every day to get good at it. It is soon very clear which students in the school are not getting enough reading practice in time to do something about it.

100 Book Challenge® Conference Notebook

The Conference Notebook is the heart of the 100 Book Challenge standards-based formative assessment system. The teacher maintains a standards-based assessment/coaching guide appropriate to that student’s current level of reading proficiency. Teachers learn to assess, diagnose, and instruct each student using a standards-based formative assessment framework while the student reads books he or she has chosen and wants to read.

Student progress is monitored, coached, and documented as they increase their mastery of the reading standards required by state testing. All instruction is differentiated to match individual student needs and interests. Teachers learn to be diagnosticians, expert coaches, and reading friends to their students. The Conference Notebook supports both student and teacher learning through daily classroom practice.

Action 100 Professional Development

Action 100 includes 30 professional development sessions throughout the school year.

Step-by-Step Professional Development

• Principals learn to be instructional leaders.
• Teachers learn to be reading specialists.
• Parents learn to be home coaches.
• Students learn to be readers.