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We have added 260 quizzes to the Australian AR Store this week.
There are so many new quizzes, I am struggling to find the highlights due to there being so many, but let’s go with these as a starter:
- The Diary of a Whimpy Kid Series
- Lots and lots of books by Erin Hunter
- A few more of Colin Thompson’s stuff
The highlights of this month’s release are the following authors
| Pierce, Tamora |
| Pilkey, Dav |
| Pratchett, Terry |
| Simon, Francesca |
| Stine, R.L. |
| Usher, Frances |
| Wilson, Jacqueline |
2010 will see us fill the gaps that have been created over the years. During Term 1 2010 we will release 4,500+ quizzes. Most of them have been written are in the final stages of approval for realse. I hope that we will release all of these quizzes during February, March and April. So by the end of April 2010 we will have 15,000+ quizzes available in the Australian market.
Our planned quiz release for October actually slipped over to November, so this month we have a bumper 311 quizzes in the release and cover a huge range of books that many schools have requested.
Some of the authors in this list include:
| Arena, Felice |
| Colfer, Eoin |
| Cresswell, Helen |
| Deary, Terry |
| DiTerlizzi, Tony |
| Fensham, Elizabeth |
| Hartnet, Sonya |
| Horowitz, Anthony |
| Johnson, Pete |
| Jonsberg, Barry |
| Masters, Anthony |
| Mayhew, James |
| Muchamore, Robert |
The Judy Moody series of books were released in this month also.
Sorry that I have been so late in getting this notification added to the website. I have just been all over the place trying to get a few things in place with the AR Advantage product we have launched this year.
This month we release 170 quizzes with the balance of the Geronimo Stilton released. We really tried to focus on the requests of customers, thank you for sending through to us.
This is the first month using our new quiz writing and release process. We collated all the quiz requests over the past few months and ranked them by the number of requests. Quizzes were written on the highest ranked books whilst trying to ensure that we did all the books in a series. We’ll be refining this process over the coming months.
From your feed back about the order this release list was presented in, we have now changed it from title to author order. I am working on releasing these quiz lists in series order also once we have a consistent method of generating that data.
So over to the books… This month really is about filling gaps, patching holes and responding to a series of requests. There wasn’t a great deal of science in this list but we tried to respond to AR users who requested these books.
A couple of things I that I think are worth mentioning:
- Cassandra Claire’s – City of … series has been started and the first two released this month
- Francesca Simon’s Horrid Henry series has been started and most released here
- And a few graphic novels that might motivate some reluctant readers
Coming Up Next Month….
The Scott Westerfeld series of books….
About 50 -odd Geronimo Stilton quizzes…
A few series requested specifically for girls, lots about fairies and ponies – sorry if this sounds stereotypical but I am just reporting on the the quiz team’s feedback!
If you have any quiz requests we would love to hear about them. You can send through a list to David.Linke@EdAlliance.com.au or use this form http://www.accreader.com.au/suggest_titles/
There may be times when you just can’t wait for a quiz to be written by us, or the book you want quizzed is specialist to your school needs. You may also want to consider having students write quizzes as an extension exercise. With AR you can write your own quizzes called Teacher made quizzes.
Teacher made quizzes are Reading Practice Quizzes that teachers, librarians or other staff members add to Accelerated Reader. The software allows the creation of 500 teacher made Reading Practice Quizzes per school. The quiz numbers 900–1399 are reserved for these quizzes.
As preparation for creating a quiz, read several books written at the same readability level as the book for which you plan to write a quiz. Then take the matching Accelerated Reader Reading Practice Quizzes.
When writing a quiz think about these points:
You need to do a bit of research before writing your quiz:
To help determine the book level and word count, search for the book details on www.Amazon.com, you might just find the exact ATOS level and the number of words in the book. The AR software will automatically calculate the number of points a quiz is worth based on the word count and book level.
You will need to decide how long your quiz will be. It can be 5, 10 or 20 questions long. Consider book level and length when deciding how many questions to include.
Creating the Actual Quiz:
If you have any questions call EdAlliance on 1800 655 359 0r email at Sales@EdAlliance.com.au
The attached PDF details the step-by-step instructions for the downloading of AR Quizzes in a MAC environment.
The attached PDF details the step-by-step instructions for the downloading of AR Quizzes in a Windows environment.
A huge number of customers have requested these quizzes. It has taken a little longer than it should have, but here are some older books that lots of students are reading:
Matthew Rielly
Ruins of Gorlan by John Flanagan
And a few more to round out this month of releases.
