New Teacher Tools and Career Options Added to Core Offerings
Lakewood, NJ - July 16, 2009 - Achieve3000, the leader in differentiated literacy instruction for students in grades 2-12, announced a new collection of science units designed to boost students' understanding of key science concepts. Echoing the recommendations from a recently released report by the Carnegie Corporation of New York Institute for Advanced Study Commission on Mathematics and Science Education, the new science offering uses nonfiction articles with real-world content to reinforce understanding of key science concepts and content-area literacy skills.
Achieve3000's proprietary system automatically differentiates reading and writing assignments for each student at his or her appropriate reading level. The science units include visual graphics, Web resources, videos and hands-on science activities that can be used along with the literacy materials to engage students and increase their knowledge of critical science concepts and frequently used science and technical terms. The new content engages students in activities that will improve their critical 21st century skills - research, critical thinking and digital literacy - while improving core reading, writing and comprehension skills.
Additional enhancements being launched for the 2009-10 school year include:
- Career Connections: a new set of career-focused feature articles highlight career opportunities within sixteen of the most popular vocational education career clusters recognized by vocational education experts. The articles and associated activities will introduce high school students to a wide range of possible career paths and help build the reading, math and literacy skills as outlined in the WorkKeys Foundational Skills assessment.
- Haitian-Creole Language Support: similar to the existing Spanish Support version of KidBiz3000™ and TeenBiz3000®, the Haitian-Creole Support version will provide text and audio support for Haitian-Creole speaking students as they transition towards English proficiency.
"As a company, we are highly focused on providing materials that promote real-world literacy skills that can translate to success in content-area classrooms and the workplace," said Laura Sammons, Vice President of Marketing for Achieve3000. "Connecting to critical content areas like science and to career opportunities and job skills is a natural extension of what we do."
Achieve3000 will also enhance its traditional offerings - KidBiz3000 and TeenBiz3000 - with new visual text features (e.g., graphs, charts, timelines, etc.) and functional documents (e.g., schedules, posters, recipes, etc) that are designed to improve students' ability to interpret and understand visual data, a critical skill for 21st century literacy. Research shows that exposure to graphs, charts and other functional documents - combined with the opportunity to use graph-specific vocabulary in writing- improves students' reading comprehension.
Achieve3000's Web-based solutions, KidBiz3000 and TeenBiz3000, provide research-based reading intervention and literacy acceleration solutions to districts across the country. In the 2008-09 school-year, Achieve3000 served more than a half-million students and 25,000 teachers, in more than 45 states and 525 districts. The solutions include extensive classroom resources. In addition, Achieve3000 educational advisors provide professional development, helping teachers use the differentiated curriculum to enhance individualize learning. Achieve3000 assists teachers in monitoring, diagnosing, intervening in and coaching student performance in reading, writing, critical thinking and technology.
About Achieve3000
Achieve3000, founded in New Jersey in 2000, is the leader in online differentiated instruction. Its solutions deliver online differentiated literacy curricula proven to increase reading comprehension, fluency, vocabulary and writing proficiency for students in grades 2 through 12 and also for adult learners. Through its proprietary software engine, the company uses the Internet to provide tailored assignments to each student in the class based on his or her reading level. The company's solutions are delivered in a nonfiction, current event format and are based on decades of scientific research. They include KidBiz3000 (a reading and writing program for grades 2 through 5), TeenBiz3000 (a reading and writing program for grades 6 through 12) and Spark3000® (a reading and writing program for adult learners). Achieve3000 is located in Lakewood, N.J., for more information, visit www.achieve3000.com or phone 800-838-8771.
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