Our 1st grade students begin to take Accelerated Vocabulary Quizzes in late October. Here are a few details:

• Most importantly, Accelerated Vocabulary should be a celebration of the words your student has learned, and not an excessive focus on those they missed. 
• Vocabulary Practice Quizzes help maximize students' word acquisition through reading practice.
• Students take Vocabulary Practice Quizzes after they have passed the Reading Practice Quiz. Not every book that has a Reading Practice Quiz has a Vocabulary Practice Quiz. The computer will prompt the student to take the Vocabulary Quiz, if there is one. Books with Vocabulary Practice Quizzes have a "V" sticker on the AR label.
• Vocabulary Practice Quizzes contain 5, 10, or 15 questions covering the vocabulary words found in the books they've read. Students do not pass or fail Vocabulary Practice Quizzes; they simply learn words.
• When they learn a word, it's placed on their Words Learned List. These words appear on the TOPS report for the Vocabulary Practice Quiz. The TOPS report also lists those words missed. The student can then discuss the missed word with his or her teacher and parents, so they will know the meaning when the word comes up on a future quiz.
• Besides the regular Vocabulary Practice Quizzes, there's another kind called a Second-Try and Review Words Quiz. This type of quiz includes only second-try new words, first-try review words, and second-try review words. It doesn't include any first-try new words for a particular title. These are given automatically by the computer on future quizzes, after a period of time has passed.