Brookesmith ISD recently celebrated the accomplishments of its students in the Accelerated Reader Program. Brookesmith began using the Accelerated Reader program at the beginning of this school year. Accelerated Reader is a supplementary reading program that provides guided instruction for students up to 12^th grade. The goal is to improve students’ reading ability through incentivizing their reading activities. The more they read, along with the quizzes they take, the better readers they become.  All grades, PK-12 are involved with it. Categories for competition are Pre-K thru 2^nd grade; 3^rd thru 5th grade; 6^th thru 8th grade; and 9^th thru 12^th.

Librarian Teresa Contreras manages the program. She presented the following individual and class awards:

·         Highest Points for Pre-K, 1^st and 2^nd grades, awarded to – Ms. Nelson’s 2^nd grade class and wins the Spirit Stick!

·         Highest earned points PK-2,  awarded to Second grader Annabel Land.

·         Highest Points for 3^rd-5^th grade, awarded to – Ms. Walls’ 5^th grade class and wins the Spirit Stick!

·         Highest earned points 3^rd-5^th  grade, awarded to  5^th grader Katie Bates!

·         Highest Points for 6^th -8^th grade, awarded to – Ms. Moreno’s 8^th grade class and wins the Spirit Stick!

·         Highest earned points 6^th-8^th grade, awarded to 8^th grader Shelby Church.

·         Highest Points for high school, awarded to Ms. Graves’ class and  and wins the Spirit Stick!

·         Highest earned points for high school, awarded to Freshman Aryn Ribble

Reading accomplishments are celebrated every six weeks.