At The Lammas School, developing our studentsā reading skills is an absolute priority for us for many reasons:
- Reading for pleasure benefits a childās education, social and cognitive development, wellbeing, communication skills and mental health.
- Reading helps children become more successful within and beyond the classroom.
- Studies have proven that reading for pleasure enhances the ability to understand oneās own and othersā identities.
We use the Accelerated Reader (AR) programme to motivate and monitor students’ independent reading. Ā Accelerated Reader helps create a culture of reading through choice, with over 220,000 titles there is something for everyone.
Students complete a Star Reading test (an online multiple-choice reading test) four times each school year. This identifies an approximate reading age and reading level for books that students should be reading to make the most progress. Students can access books through AR online or books within the school library are marked with colours to show what AR level they are. There is a wealth of fiction and non-fiction books to choose from along with a plethora of articles and extracts to encourage reading. Students complete regular online quizzes to show their understanding of the texts they have read.
The Griffin Schools Trust looked at the statistics from Term 1 and noted some mammoth achievements. Based on how many words were logged by each student in AR, GST awarded a Kindle to the top four readers across the Trust. We are super excited to announce that a year 9 Lammas student won one for reading 1,559,033 words in a term. Congratulations!
