Literacy

OPRFHS offers a range of opportunities to develop and enhance students' reading abilities. Instruction and intervention are matched to students' demonstrated needs and academic skill sets. The goal of our reading program is for students to be college and career ready readers.

Freshman Humanities Accelerate Program

The Humanities Accelerate Program is a three-class experience designed to help students build strong reading, writing, and thinking skills while completing their freshman English and World History requirements. In this program, students take English I, World History, and a Literacy Seminar course that provides additional support in reading and comprehension.

What makes this program unique is how the three classes work together as an integrated learning experience—students practice the literacy strategies they learn in the Literacy Seminar directly within their English and History coursework. This alignment allows students to strengthen vocabulary, improve reading comprehension, decode complex words, and build reading fluency in meaningful, connected ways across subjects.

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Literacy Seminar II

Literacy Seminar provides strategic instruction to increase students' ability to read academic content area text in their English I A, World History A, and Physics-Chemistry A courses. It teaches students to read for different purposes with a variety of texts. LS II also develops executive functioning habits in the areas of organization, note-taking, annotating, and study strategies. Literacy Seminar II strives to build pro-students skills academically and behaviorally to provide a strong foundation of success freshmen year and beyond. View the instructional planning form here.

Literacy Connections

The goal of Literacy Connections is to develop reading proficiency and academic competencies for students who continue to demonstrate need beyond their first year of reading intervention. LC reinforces students' skills from their previous literacy class while building academic content reading skills at the student's grade level. Developing positive student habits such as decision making, organization, goal-setting, and study habits are emphasized. Students explore interest inventories and career options. View the instructional planning form here.

College & Career Literacy

College & Career Literacy helps students apply strategies that directly support content area reading. The focus of this class is informational, non-fiction texts. Executive functioning lessons enable students to monitor their own progress and set goals. Students engage in post-secondary planning and what it will take to get them to their goals.  This class supports students who continue to need literacy skills to be college and career ready.  View the instructional planning form here.