{"id":12855,"date":"2025-09-04T20:56:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T20:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mpsschoolwebsi.wpenginepowered.com\/honeycreek\/?page_id=12855"},"modified":"2026-01-27T16:20:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T16:20:23","slug":"ar-program-description","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/honeycreek\/ar-program-description\/","title":{"rendered":"Accelerated Reading Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

Honey Creek is very proud of our Accelerated Reading Program. This reading program combines our computers with reading. Our CP2 through CP5 students participate (CP1 students typically will begin the program their second semester).\u00a0 Here is how the Accelerated Reading Program works…<\/p>\n

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  1. We have access to over 185,000 book titles. Most popular children\u2019s literature will have an Accelerated Reading quiz available.\u00a0\u00a0 All Accelerated Reading Books at Honey Creek School have been identified with a green label.<\/li>\n
  2. Your child can obtain most of these books from local library, Honey Creek\u2019s library, his\/her classroom library, bookstore, or perhaps borrow from a friend.<\/li>\n
  3. Your child should carefully read the book at home or at school.<\/li>\n
  4. When he\/she has successfully completed the book, your child can take a 3-20 question multiple choice comprehension test. Your child’s teacher will allow them to take AR quizzes on their computer device at appropriate times during the school day.<\/li>\n
  5. Students may NOT retake a test on a book title, so they must be very prepared the first time they take the test.<\/li>\n
  6. The computer will score the test; based on the correct answers, the student will be awarded points.<\/li>\n
  7. The points accumulated can then be used by the students to periodically obtain prizes by \u201ccashing\u201d in their points at the Honey Creek Accelerated Reading Store (our store is open one Tuesday each month from 1:00-2:00pm).<\/li>\n
  8. Events are held periodically throughout the school year to encourage students to meet reading goals.\u00a0 Students must pass a pre-determined number of quizzes during a set time-frame to attend these events. Examples are Ice Cream Sandwich Party, Root Beer Float Party, and a Spring Picnic.<\/li>\n
  9. Each month Ms. Biesterveld sets a point goal. September\u2019s goal is 12 points, October\u2019s is 25 points, etc.\u00a0 If students\u2019 meet these goals they can attend the AR Goals Lunch held at the end of each month, and receive a special treat.\u00a0 These monthly goals help the students stay on track to earn 100 points for the year and become a member of the \u201cAR 100 Point Club\u201d,\u00a0 this entitles them to attend a Special Lunch with the Principal in June.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    We have received many prizes for this reading program from our fund raisers, local businesses such as Rocky Rococo, Discount Liquor, AMF Bowling Center, Burger King and our PAC.\u00a0 We need your help in obtaining more prizes for this worthwhile program.\u00a0 We will accept donations; monetary or otherwise.\u00a0 Perhaps your employer or someone you know would be willing to donate items we could use as incentive prizes.\u00a0 If you have any questions about how our program works, or your child\u2019s participation in it, please contact your child\u2019s teacher at 604-7900.\u00a0 We are in need of parent volunteers to help in setting up our Accelerated Reading Store the second Tuesday of each month from 1:00-2:00. Contact Pat Larsen at 414-477-5662 if you can spare 2 hours each month.<\/p>\n

    If you would like to view your child\u2019s progress in this program you can log in to the AR Home Connect Website: https:\/\/global-zone08.renaissance-go.com\/studentprogress\/homeconnect<\/a>.\u00a0 (Renaissance ID: MPS-08TI).\u00a0 User name and password are your child\u2019s student ID (no \u201cs\u201d) and birth date (mm\/dd\/yy).<\/p>\n

    You can determine whether a quiz exists for a particular book by going to:\u00a0https:\/\/www.arbookfind.com<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0If a quiz is found your child will be able to take that quiz at Honey Creek.<\/p>\n

    Reading is fundamental to our children\u2019s education.\u00a0 Please encourage your child to use this wonderful program to increase their reading skills.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Honey Creek is very proud of our Accelerated Reading Program. This reading program combines our computers with reading. Our CP2 through CP5 students participate (CP1 students typically will begin the program their second semester).\u00a0 Here is how the Accelerated Reading Program works… We have access to over 185,000 book titles. Most popular children\u2019s literature will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":139,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-12855","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/honeycreek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/honeycreek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/honeycreek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/honeycreek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/139"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/honeycreek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/honeycreek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/k12.mps.school\/honeycreek\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}