How to embed literacy across the curriculum Implementing Accelerated Reader and focusing on daily reading When Accelerated Reader was first brought in, we were both fairly new to the academy. We received initial online training but also invited the English team, literacy and library teams, and Teaching Assistants to an onsite training session. This was a useful introduction and we covered a great deal of ground, looking at topics including intervention targets and growth tracking, while examining the variety of reports and quizzes. We also discussed initial ways to use the programme to motivate students to read and how to inform rewards and guide book choices. We began by allocating one weekly 45-minute library lesson to Accelerated Reader, which combined quiz-taking, silent rea

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