The Archbold Area Schools are committed to the development of literacy skills in their students in order for every student to become a confident, successful, and motivated reader and writer. To live and prosper in society, it is essential that everyone be lifelong learners, with access to knowledge and skills that can sustain our lives at work, at home, and in our communities. Strong literacy skills are imperative in order to become lifelong learners.

Archbold Area Schools recognize reading and writing are the keys to all learning. Through the cooperative efforts of school administrators, teachers, parents, students and community members, the highest quality of literacy services will be available to our students.

• Students will communicate effectively for a variety of audiences, situations and purposes.
• Students will know how to translate letter patterns into spoken language, using phonics, syllables and word parts, and apply this knowledge for fluent oral and silent reading.
• Students will use their knowledge of word parts, word relationships, word origins and context clues to determine the meaning of specialized vocabulary and new words encountered in reading.
• Students will apply a wide range of strategies to comprehend, interpret and evaluate texts, representing a variety of authors, cultures and eras.
• Students will compose texts that exhibit English language conventions of mechanics, grammar, usage and spelling appropriate to the audience, purpose and topic across the curriculum.
• Students will be able to write several kinds of texts including narrative and persuasive, as well as a variety of expository texts. They will demonstrate an awareness of audience, purpose and form, using the stages of the writing process.
• Archbold Area Schools will emphasize the importance of being literate, in order to be successful, by encouraging and expecting all of the teaching staff to provide the highest quality of reading and writing instruction.
• Archbold Area Schools will provide opportunities for professional improvement in order to adequately equip all teachers so that reading and writing can be taught, through integration, across the curriculum, not only within language arts classes.
• Archbold Area Schools will provide the materials and tools necessary to implement the highest quality of literacy instruction.