Transition to High School
Reading Ahead High School offers students a place to meet online before high school. Students can visit each other's virtual lockers, send notes, post their ideas on the forum and read and respond to relevant articles.School Boards can use Reading Ahead’s transition to high school program to make the move to high school easier for students.
Here’s how it works:
Students planning to attend a specific high school can be grouped together in a virtual environment where they can meet their future classmates from other feeder schools. Through this interaction, they are able to build literacy skills in reading and writing.
Option #1: Skill Building
Each student is assigned a locker with a journal, dictionary and yearbook. Students can send locker notes to each other, add their favourite things into the yearbook and write their thoughts in their journal.
During an 8-week program, students use the daily and weekly activities to learn and grow together. Each day a new forum is posted and students are encouraged to write their ideas and opinions. Students can write sentences in their dictionary, using the word of the day to gain points and decorate their lockers. Students have the opportunity to respond in their online journals to weekly articles sent via email.
Option #2: Novel Studies
Students receive all the features of our Skill Build Program as well as 2 four-week novel studies. This program includes two novels delivered to the school district or directly to the student's home. Students are expected to read approximately 30 pages a week and do 4 lessons per novel. Each lesson includes comprehension and vocabulary activities, as well as journal and forum entries.
This program is beneficial for both avid and reluctant readers. Our online virtual environment allows students to work at their own pace, gaining points to decorate their lockers as they complete the activities included in the study.
