This is an adaptive credit recovery course, in which students will complete a pretest for each module, and will be exempted from activities for topics where mastery is demonstrated. This type of credit recovery course targets individual areas of need in the curriculum and minimizes repetition of content where students have demonstrated their understanding.
Students will complete lessons in multiple domains: reading and the study of literature, reading informational text, writing, and language study, which includes word knowledge and grammar skills. Writing assignments include narrative, expository, and persuasive/argumentative modes and emphasize the use of and details and reasoning to support ideas. Vocabulary development instruction is integrated into literature and informational text lessons. Each unit ends with an assessment based on skills they learned in the unit.
Major topics include:
- Reading skills and strategies
- Literary elements and devices
- Reading informational text
- Text structures
- Writing narratives and informational texts
- Vocabulary
Students learn through online lesson activities, videos, and interactive activities. Each module begins with a pretest, proceeds to lessons that conclude with a brief self-check, and wraps with a module exam. The course concludes with a cumulative exam.
This course uses content from Accelerate Education taught by a VHS Learning instructor who is certified in their content area and who follows VHS Learning policies. The course will be hosted in the Buzz learning management system. Students may spend 60 hours completing this course, though actual time-spent will vary based on individual student performance in module pretests.
Credit recovery courses do not meet initial eligibility requirements for NCAA. Students who require flexible courses meeting initial eligibility requirements should consider VHS Learning self-paced courses, which can be found in the VHS Learning Catalog.