Create Reading Snapshot Step 2, Select Achievements

When you create a reading snapshot, this page lets you select the student achievement that you want to share.

Reading Snapshots are a great way to share the reading achievements of the school group, a school, a year, or a class with parents or the community as a whole. Using Reading Snapshots, you can share either the amount of reading students have done or the percentage of students who are meeting their Accelerated Reader targets.

How to Get to This Page

1. First, do one of the following:
   • On the Home page, select Reading Snapshots under "Share Progress."
     
   • In the Record Book, select Reading Snapshots.
     
2. Then, on the Reading Snapshots page, select Create a Snapshot.
3. Select the student groups to include. Then, select Next to go to Achievements.

Choosing the Achievement to Include in the Reading Snapshot

First, choose the type of achievement to include in the reading snapshot: Student reading totals or Targets met. Student reading totals include the number of books and words students have read and how many minutes students are estimated to have read per day. Targets met shows you the percentage of students who have met their current reading targets.

After choosing the type of achievement, choose the settings.

Student Reading Totals

If you choose "Student reading totals," the reading snapshot will how many books and words your students have read during the time period based on the Reading Practice Quizzes and Article Quizzes students have passed. Next, you must choose whether to create a website counter or an image:

• Website counter: This option is available only to school network and school level administrators. A website counter displays total books read, words read, and estimated minutes of reading per day. After you create a website counter, you will go back to the Reading Snapshots page, where you can copy HTML for the website counter. Your website administrator can use the HTML to include the counter on the school website. Once you include the counter on your website, it updates the totals every day as long as you are in the time period that you selected for the Reading Snapshot.
  
  After you choose a website counter, you can choose whether to count for the current month or the current school year.
  
• Image: An image is a picture that includes the total books read, words read, and estimated minutes read per day for a specific month in the school year. The image is not updated once you have created it. You can download the images that you create as .png files on the Reading Snapshots page.
  
  After you choose the Image option, use the drop-down list to choose the month for which you want to display student achievements. (You cannot choose a month that has not started yet.)
  

Targets Met

If you choose "Targets met," tick the Accelerated Reader targets that you want to include. The reading snapshot will show the percentage of students who met those targets. This only applies to students using the two target models for older students; badge targets for young students are not included.

• Average percentage correct on quizzes: The average percentage correct target reflects students' overall average scores on Reading Practice Quizzes and Article Quizzes.
• Points earned: The points target represents the number of points that students earn by passing Reading Practice Quizzes and Article Quizzes. For more information about points, see Points in Accelerated Reader.

After selecting the target types to include, select the marking period for which the targets were set. Only targets set for that marking period will be reflected in the reading snapshot. For more about setting targets, see Accelerated Reader Targets (Record Book).

The % of targets met is calculated this way:

number of students meeting all ticked targets
total number of students

The preview to the right will reflect what you have chosen. If you see 0s for minutes read, a message will tell you that there is not enough Star data to display the minutes read per day. To go on to the next step, select Next.