We at Watkins Glen Middle School are using the Accelerated Reader and Math Program. The program is incentive based and is meant to jump start a child’s love for reading. At the start of the 2010 school year we have enhanced the program so that is will cover a greater span of the school year and give parents more access to their child’s progress.   Although there is a use of a variety of classroom and school wide incentives that go along with the program to help with student motivation, the real incentive for everyone involved with the program is to build a love of reading and math in every student.

 The Accelerated Reader program has two tools for parents and students to view information about their progress from home or to see if a book is one of the thousands in their collection of quizzes.  AR Home Connect is a website that you and your child can log into using your child's Accelerated Reader account information to view the books your child have read and see their progress.  The AR Bookfinder website is a web portal that you and your child can use to search the library of book quizzes available when students access the Accelerated Reader program at school.