All students in grades 9 to 12, through the English classes, participate in the Accelerated Reader program which is designed to build a reading culture in our school and make reading practice more effective. Students read books at their own level and answer content-based quizzes.
The Accelerated Reader program will help: advance reading, comprehension and critical-thinking skills; encourage the love of reading; inculcate independent reading and provide more opportunities for reading books of interest outside the class list; encourage students to read more carefully; build a sense of achievement; and generally prepare students for literacy tests.
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How does it work? |
The process is very easy. |
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Step 1 |
The teacher-librarian and the class teacher conduct an orientation for each participating class. |
| Step 2 |
Each student chooses his or her own book to read. |
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The student reads the book independently |
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After completely reading the book, the student takes a computer-generated multiple choice quiz under a teacher’s supervision. |
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The computer generates feedback on the test for the student. Students are to share the test results with their teacher and parents. |
All students are required to read books from our school library collection.
ARP is a point system. The number of points required depends on the grade and level of the student. Each student must acquire desired points for his or her grade and course level to earn 8% of the student's final grade in English. Students are giving some class time during their English class to read their ARP books.
Accommodations Available for Students with IEP
- Teacher-librarian available for extra help
- Assistance with book selection
- Reading with Kurzweil
- Use preventative prompts
- Extensions (extra time for reading and processing)
- Memory aids such as crib notes allowed during testing
- Open book testing
- Use of dictionary during testing
- Teacher explanation during testing
- Other accommodations based on the Admin/ARD/Student Success advise.
Other situations will be attended to case by case. Our students' success is our priority. Therefore, all necessary efforts will be made to assist our students succeed in this program.
NOTE: The essence of this program is to expose our students to more books and to encourage them to read beyond class prescribed texts. Therefore, students can only be tested on books they read within the semester.
Our library collection is of diverse genre and interest. Our staff and students are welcome to suggest titles, series and authors to be added to our consideration list.
If you have any questions about ARP, please ask Mrs. Odozor (Teacher-Librarian) or any of our English subject teachers.