After a little break last month the Quiz Writers have started off with a small 130-odd quizzes released this month.
I had a quick look down the list and noticed a couple of Christmas type books.
2011 – October Release
6 December 2011 By Leave a Comment
Due to holidays and a change of systems we didn’t release any quizzes into the Australian market in October this year.
The normal production schedule will resume in November
2011 – September Release
6 October 2011 By Leave a Comment
This month sees us release 139 quizzes into the Australian market.
As I was looking down the list of quizzes released these things just popped into my head:
- Even more quizzes on Daisy Meadows books – how can there be any more of these fairy books to quiz
- Even more quizzes on Adam Blade books – this has to be getting to the end of this Beast Quest series
A series that stood out for me in the list was the Oliver Moon series.
You can download the list here –
2011 – August Release
9 September 2011 By Leave a Comment
The month of August sees more than 400 quizzes released.
You can download the PDF of the list here
2011 – June and July Release
2 August 2011 By Leave a Comment
The releases for June and July reflect our move from filling gaps in the collections to a focus on recent books. I hope to keep this focus going over the remainder of 2011 and into 2012. The latest quiz releases have been updated on the AR Advantage sites and into the Desktop Quiz Store.
The combined June and July releases included 700+ new quizzes in the Australian AR system now.
You can download the PDF’s here:
2011 – May Release
14 June 2011 By Leave a Comment
The Quiz Writers have been very busy throughout May this year, this month sees more than 400 quizzes released.
The biggest news, for me anyway, is that Diary of a Whimpy Kid – The Ugly Truth has finally been released as a quiz. Can you let all those students who have been emailing me each month that this quiz is now available. It is always exciting to hear from students, and even more exciting when I can deliver on the requests.
The other big highlights are the additions to the Artemis Fowl, Young Samurai and Alex Rider Series…
2011 – April Quiz Release
4 May 2011 By Leave a Comment
Our quiz writers have focused on filling some gaps in collections, this might be a series or an author’s collection, so these 280+ Reading Practice quizzes might be a little older than we normally release. But I think filling in the gaps is a really useful idea – I hope you do too.
We also continued our release of Vocabulary Practice Quizzes this month, with another 200+ VP quizzes released into the Australian market. This latest Vocabulary Practice quiz release takes us over the 800 quizzes in this exciting new category.
Just a reminder that all the VP quizzes already have an RP quiz on the system
2011 – March Release
21 March 2011 By Leave a Comment
This month our quiz writers have split their efforts between the standard Reading Practice Quizzes and the new Vocabulary Practice Quizzes. We released in total 500+ quizzes this month. Now before I get 100+ emails, the latest book in the Diary of a Whimpy Kid series is coming in April.
This is the Reading Practice Quiz list:
The Vocabulary Practice Quizzes are here:
Just a reminder that all the VP quizzes already have an RP quiz on the system
2011 – February Release
12 February 2011 By Leave a Comment
This month we have 350+ quizzes added to the Reading Practice list for Australia.
2011 – January Release
12 February 2011 By Leave a Comment
The quiz writing and release team have been busy over the summer with another 750 quizzes released this month
2010 – December Release
12 February 2011 By Leave a Comment
We added 750 Reading Practice Quizzes this month
2010 – November Release
2 December 2010 By Leave a Comment
This month we have added another 112 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes.
If you missed the information on the release of Vocabulary Practice Quizzes and how to use them, the article can be read here.
Explicitly Develop Students’ Vocabulary
3 November 2010 By 1 Comment
Accelerated Reader Advantage now includes Vocabulary Practice Quizzes to explicitly develop and assess students’ vocabulary from the books they read. Students regularly using Accelerated Reader complete lots of reading practice which can now be extended to explicitly teach new vocabulary.
Over the coming months we will release more than 1000 Vocabulary Practice quizzes. The first 216 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes are active now, you can download the list here
The Basic Facts that you need to know
- There will 1000 Vocabulary Practice Quizzes released over the coming 6 months
- 216 VP Quizzes in this batch
- If a student passes a Reading Practice Quiz on a book with a VP Quiz they will be prompted by the software to do the VP Quiz
- Teachers can also setup routines to use VP Quizzes which explicitly develop vocabulary in their students
I have put together these details instructions on using VP Quizzes. You can download and email to your teaching staff.
This presentation will also explain the details on the VP Quiz structure and how to use them.
Explicitly Develop Student Vocabulary
View more presentations from David Linke.
2010 – September
12 October 2010 By Leave a Comment
I think this is the last of the Gap-Filling project that began this year, meaning this is a strange group of quiz releases. Look out for the latest Conspiracy 365 books, even the September one was released this month.
2010 – June July and August Releases
8 September 2010 By Leave a Comment
I have been really slow in getting these PDF’s put up on the website, sorry for the delay.
The really big Gap-Filling process started this year has been hugely successful. We have over 17,000+ quizzes in the Australian store now. We have released so many quizzes each month that I have had to separate them into Lower Years (LY – for K through Year 4), Middle Years (MY – for Year 5 through Year 8 ) and Upper Years (UY – for Year 9+).
The June Releases:
Lower Years (K- Year 4) –
Middle Years – (Year 5-8) –
Upper Years – (Year 9+) –
The July Releases:
Lower Years (K- Year 4) –
Middle Years – (Year 5-8) –
Upper Years – (Year 9+) –
The August Releases:
Lower Years (K- Year 4) –
Middle and Upper Years –
2010 – May and June Release
23 June 2010 By Leave a Comment
The massive “gap-filling” task that we embarked on at the beginning of this 2010 is now really taking off. We have release more than 2,000 quizzes in the past 6 weeks. These quizzes are all gaps in series that were started over the years and not completed. There are also lots of new titles in amongst this all to.
Considering the number of pages this release has stretched to, I contemplated the different ways I can make it more readable. So the end result is splitting it into the various sections based on Interest Level of the quizzes.
So here are the quiz release PDF’s for this month:
The Lower Years (K-4) –
The Middle Years (5-8) –
The Upper Years (9+) –
Free Quiz Matching Service
5 May 2010 By 1 Comment
There have been more than 2,000 quizzes released into the Australian AR quiz store this year. I feel like we are really accelerating the filling of the gaps and I hope that you see this too. There have been a few little hiccups like the odd duplicate or the wrong jacket image appearing on www.ARBookFind.com.au, but all of these are been fixed right now.
With all these new quizzes I have been thinking about how a school matches their library collection to the available quizzes. AR Advantage customers can access AR Bookguide as part of their annual subscription. AR Desktop customers can access the AR Quiz Manager tool developed, sold and supported by Libcode Library Systems. But what about a simple service to help schools just do a one off match of their libraries to the AR Quiz list…
I am not sure that anyone really wants this service, but it might make things very much easier to find quizzes in these new big releases.
So I am offering you a one off free quiz match!
All you need to do is send me an export from your library management system. If you send me a US MARC or MARC21 format file of your library collection, and your reading resources if you want, I will match that to the current quiz list and email you back a spreadsheet detailing the books in your school that matches a current AR Quiz.
You can email me at david.linke@edalliance.com.au
2010 – April Release #2
3 May 2010 By Leave a Comment
April has seen us release 1000+ quizzes into the Australian market. I had originally added the release, then heard that we had one more batch to publish, so here is the 2nd release for the month.
I am getting very excited about this release process, we are really moving ahead in filling the gaps created over the years.
2010 – April Release
22 April 2010 By Leave a Comment
This process of filling in the gaps is series that I flagged a few months ago is really producing some great material.
This month we have released 700+ quizzes. There are such great series represented here:
- We start the Conspiracy 365 Series, January and February out now, then the others should come out each month from here
- All the Mystery Mob series
- The Oxford Reading Tree series sees some 100+ titles added
- All the Lionboy series have been finished and relased
- All the Max Axiom books have been quizzed and released
- A series of classic books abridged and targetted for the middle years
Lots of good things happening with quizzes this month and over the next few months to.
2010 – March Release
6 April 2010 By 1 Comment
A heap of great authors and some exciting new books released this month.
The highlights of the authors might be:
| Author |
| Abela, Deborah |
| Aiken, Joan |
| Bradman, Tony |
| Brown, Dan |
| Dahl, Roald |
| Deary, Terry |
| Dhami, Narinder |
| d’Lacey, Chris |
| Gaiman, Neil |
| Hawes, Alison |
| Horowitz, Anthony |
| Meadows, Daisy |
| Meyer, Stephenie |
| Muchamore, Robert |
| Powling, Chris |
| Rowling, J.K. |
| Sparkes, Ali |
| Waddell, Martin |
| Zucker, Jonny |
You will see some new books from Anthony Horowitz, the completion of the Twilight Series and the Daisy Meadows books.
2010 – February Release
5 March 2010 By 2 Comments
The process that I highlighed last month of filling in the gaps that have been created over the years has started. This month we have relase 300+ quizzes, as the first installment of our planned Term 1 2010 relase of thousands of quizzes.
I can’t really pick the highlights in this list. So I will let the release speak for its self.
2010 – January Release
5 February 2010 By Leave a Comment
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
2009 – December Release
15 December 2009 By Leave a Comment
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.
2009 – October and November Release
1 December 2009 By Leave a Comment
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.
2009 – September Quiz Release
1 October 2009 By Leave a Comment
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.
2009 – August Quiz Release
9 September 2009 By
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/
2009 – July
7 August 2009 By
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.
2009 – April
15 July 2009 By
This month we release 35 new quizzes, including the first of the Hank Zipper Series of books by Henry Winkler.
