The 100 BOOK CHALLENGE® partners with you to identify each student’s level using national standards. Ongoing assessment continually matches the right instruction and the right books to every child. With a system of instructional feedback loops, embedded professional development for teachers, and a parent support framework, each student makes adequate or accelerated yearly progress.
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For up to 30 students
Choose between medals, dogtags or bracelets
Up to 800 Steps
Prizes for first 200 Steps
1 day of professional development training is included (at no cost) with the purchase of 5-20 modules. (5-20 modules include 1 day, 21-40 modules include 2 days, 41-60 modules include 3 days, etc.)
10 Baskets/300 Titles
For up to 30 students
Choose between medals, dogtags or bracelets
Up to 800 Steps
Prizes for first 200 Steps
1 day of professional development training is included (at no cost) with the purchase of 5-20 modules. (5-20 modules include 1 day, 21-40 modules include 2 days, 41-60 modules include 3 days, etc.)
10 Baskets/250 Titles
The Teacher Resource Kit provides teachers with the tools they will need to get started with 100 Book Challenge®.
The IRLA is a unified standard-based framework for student assessment, text leveling, curriculum, and instruction. The IRLA ensures that grade level instruction in reading is appropriately rigorous and that differentiated support effectively meets the needs of all students.
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 while becoming an expert in reading instruction and the Common Core State Standards. The IRLA includes Cold Reads and questions used to assess student proficiency with the Common Core State Standards as well as Student Practice Pages to reinforce essential skills.
Have the entire range of 100 Book Challenge Skill Cards at your fingertips! This set includes all 100 Book Challenge Skill Cards making it easy to locate the skills necessary at any reading level. The set is laminated and collated onto a ring for quick reference.
Each 15 minutes of reading practice counts as one Step. Students are expected to read for 11 Steps a week, for a minimum of 800 Steps (200 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.
ARC’s standards-based color leveling system organizes all of your leveling tools into one simple standards-based gradient that students, teachers, and parents can understand and use. The leveling poster is a handy reference defining the text characteristics at every color level and providing the correlation to other popular leveling programs.
Teachers can keep track of students’ reading milestones. This 39" × 27" colorful glossy poster has spaces for the teacher to write in the students’ names and the dates on which they reached reading milestones—from 100–1000 Steps.
The Teacher Resource Kit provides teachers with the tools they will need to get started with 100 Book Challenge®.
American Reading Company’s ENIL provides core national standards for reading proficiency, grades PreK–8. The ENIL allows educators to determine a student’s current level of reading proficiency in Spanish, diagnose areas of strength and weakness, formulate an Action Plan for next steps, and track progress on a daily basis using books the students has chosen to read.
Students need to know where they stand in relation to grade-level expectations. The ENIL 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.
Have the entire range of 100 Book Challenge Skill Cards at your fingertips! This set includes all 100 Book Challenge Skill Cards making it easy to locate the skills necessary at any reading level. The set is laminated and collated onto a ring for quick reference.
Each 15 minutes of reading practice counts as one Step. Students are expected to read for 11 Steps a week, for a minimum of 800 Steps (200 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.
ARC’s standards-based color leveling system organizes all of your leveling tools into one simple standards-based gradient that students, teachers, and parents can understand and use. The leveling poster is a handy reference defining the text characteristics at every color level and providing the correlation to other popular leveling programs.
Teachers can keep track of students’ reading milestones. This 39" × 27" colorful glossy poster has spaces for the teacher to write in the students’ names and the dates on which they reached reading milestones—from 100–1000 Steps.
The Instructional Framework 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.
Tailored to the needs of students at each level of reading acquisition and color-coded to the standards-based leveling system, 100 BOOK CHALLENGE Reading Skills Cards help teachers and parents identify a student’s level and teach the appropriate reading strategies for that level. The Skill Cards make explicit what each student must practice in order to move on to the next level. A set of cards appropriate for Elementary 2-3 reading levels are included in the module.
Tailored to the needs of students at each level of reading acquisition and color-coded to the standards-based leveling system, 100 BOOK CHALLENGE Reading Skills Cards help teachers and parents identify a student’s level and teach the appropriate reading strategies for that level. The Skill Cards make explicit what each student must practice in order to move on to the next level. A set of cards appropriate for 1st Grade reading levels are included in the module.
Milestone Awards are presented to students by the school principal in recognition of effort-based achievements in reading. Each gold medal has the 100 Book Challenge logo on one side and the reading milestone on the other. Colorful ribbons represent which milestone the reader has reached.
100 Book Challenge Reading Folders keep your students organized for Independent Reading. Everything they need for reading practice travels with them throughout the day and goes home each night. Students start with the basic Blue folder. As each reader completes 100 Steps of reading, he or she is awarded a new 100-Step Red folder. Students who have not completed the requisite amount of reading practice continue with the aging Blue folders. Teachers and volunteers can see at a glance who needs extra reading practice time. The color folders provide a Karate Belt system for monitoring and rewarding student effort.
100 Book Challenge modules include folders to take 30 students from 0-800 Steps. Additional incentive folders up to 1,000 Steps are available à la carte.
Colorful refrigerator magnets will remind home coaches to support their students’ 100 BOOK CHALLENGE Reading, providing a fun way to encourage families to turn off the TV and make sure their child reads for 30 minutes.
The magnets are available in both English and Spanish.
Colorful refrigerator magnets will remind home coaches to support their students' 100 BOOK CHALLENGE Reading, providing a fun way to encourage families to turn off the TV and make sure their child reads for 30 minutes.
The magnets are available in both English and Spanish.
The Super Reader Cape is an incentive tool with which K-1 teachers can honor students' effort and achievements. The cape is intended to be awarded in the classroom for students who have hit either a step milestone or reached a new reading level.
Students who are unable to use the pattern in Yellow books to figure out how to “read” the rest of the book are working at the Read-To-Me (RTM) level. This indicates that they are not yet ready to read independently. Listening to massive amounts of books read aloud develops RTM students’ interest in reading. The 500-Book Kid Read-Aloud logbooks ensures that every RTM student experiences 500 read alouds.
Students who are unable to use the pattern in Yellow (Amarillo) books to figure out how to “read” the rest of the book are working at the Léeme-A-Mí (LAM) level. This indicates that they are not yet ready to read independently. Listening to massive amounts of books read aloud develops LAM students’ interest in reading. The 500-Book Kid Read-Aloud logbooks ensures that every LAM student experiences 500 read alouds.
Rewards for Readers Who Achieve
Research shows that extrinsic rewards help students sustain behavior that is initially challenging but with experience becomes intrinsically rewarding. Your avid readers don’t need the prizes, but students not used to reading at home every night on their own do. The 100 Book Challenge Module includes a package of small incentives to get all of your readers started on lots of reading every day.
Cool Bags for Smart Kids
Students in grades PreK–5 use these durable book bags to transport all their 100 Book Challenge materials to and from school. The elastic strap will allow the bags to hang over the backs of most classroom chairs. Teachers can easily check to be sure every child goes home with this reading practice kit every night. Parents and younger siblings look forward to the unpacking of this special bag every afternoon, full of new books to read.
ARC Professional Development is highly adaptable and flexible to meet the needs of the district and/or school. The total number of Professional Development days, time of year, and recommended service types of PD can all be modified to best serve the district and/or school.
Master educators hand-select only the best trade and reading company multicultural titles to include in the Kindergarten Libraries. Collections are balanced to include fiction (including best selling series) and nonfiction across multiple genres and come leveled, organized and ready to read. Each classroom receives ten baskets (30 books each), totaling 300 unique titles, and each classroom’s set is different. The baskets circulate among participating classrooms creating a continuous stream of up to 15,000 titles moving through participating classrooms.
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