1. How to Meet Your AR Goals
For the 2nd Nine Weeks

2. 5 Steps to Meeting Your AR Goals
Know Your Goals
Understand Your Goals
Choose books on your level
Read, Read, Read (a Little Each Day)
Monitor Yourself

3. 1. Know Your Goals
You can’t meet your goals if you don’t know what they are.
Meet with your teacher to set
your goals.
Sign your goal sheet for this
nine weeks.
Write down your goals in your
agenda to help you
remember them.
Check your goals in Home
Connect.

4. 2. Understand Your Goals
It’s important to know your goals, but you also have to understand what your goals are so that you will be able to meet them.
You have 3 AR Goals each 9 Weeks:
Quiz Average Goal
Points Goal
Book Level Goal

5. Quiz Average Goal Your quiz goal average is usually 85% 83 86 90 80
The Quiz Average Goal is the AVERAGE grade you need to make on AR quizzes. Think of it like your AR Report Card grade.
Your quiz goal average is usually 85% 90
100 95 80 65 85 80
100 85 90 65 83 86

6. Points Goal
The Points Goal is probably the easiest goal to achieve. You just have to earn a certain number of points.
Although points are easy to earn, it is also important to read and quiz on books that are within your book level range so that you can meet your Book Level Goal, too.

7. Book Level Goal
The Book Level Goal is probably the most difficult goal to achieve. You must read books within your book level to reach this goal.
Your Book Level Goal is based on your STAR Reading test. It is the average of your low and high book level.
For example, if your reading level is , then your book level average will be 3.6.

8. 3.1-4.1 Reading Level, Example Goal = 3.6
Book Level Goal
To reach your Book Level Goal, you need to read books more on the high end of your book level. If you read too many books on the low end, your average book level will be low.
Reading Level, Example Goal = 3.6
3.1
3.2
3.9
4.1
4.0
3.8
3.7
3.2
3.1
3.3
3.5
3.8
3.9
4.0
3.7
4.1
3.2
3.7
3.9

9. 3. Choose Books on Your Level

11. Look for book level and points under the book title.
Locating Books
Look for book level and points under the book title.

12. F means upper Fiction. Adl is the first 3 letters of the author’s last name.
E means Easy Fiction. CUS is the first 3 letters of the author’s last name.

16. Another way to search Destiny

17. To Get to Destiny Quest

18. Type in your search in the “Find” box and then click Go!

23. Find out more information about a book by holding the mouse over the picture of the book.

24. To find out even more, click on the picture of the book.

25. To login to Destiny Quest
User Name: library number
Password: library number

26. Login to add titles to your list.

27. Don’t forget to LOGOUT when you’re finished.

28. If you didn’t login, still be sure to click Exit Quest when finished.

29. New AR Labels
ATOS

30. Locating Books on the Shelf

31. Level and Points

32. 4. Read, Read, Read (a little each day)
You can’t meet your goals if you aren’t reading.
Make time each day to read so that you can reach your goals.
Just 20 minutes a day of reading can help you meet your goals.

33. 5. Monitor Yourself
Check your AR progress online at least once a week to see how you’re doing. If you’re not on track, make some changes.

34. How to Get to Home Connect
On the Destiny homepage, click on the AR Home Connect link. You can check Home Connect at home or at school.

35. Log in the same way you do for AR
Log in to Home Connect
Log in the same way you do for AR
First initial of first name, first 4 initials of last name, all capitals, no spaces
Lunch number

39. 5 Steps to Meeting Your AR Goals
Know Your Goals
Understand Your Goals
Choose books on your level
Read, Read, Read (a Little Each Day)
Monitor Yourself

40. Any questions?