Put your Spanish-speaking and Haitian-Creole speaking students on the path to reading and writing achievement
The new Achieve3000 ELL Success differentiated instruction solution gives you a powerful, proven means to enable reading and writing proficiency for your Spanish-speaking and Haitian-Creole speaking students. It's the first Web-based, differentiated reading and writing instruction program that reaches every student at his or her individual reading level in English, Spanish, or Haitian-Creole – and that provides appropriate instructional support in each language.
With Achieve3000 ELL Success, students' Lexile® levels in English are assessed initially using LevelSet™, a proprietary assessment tool that determines each student's level of comprehension for informational text. Then, by providing level-appropriate, standards-aligned nonfiction assignments via e-mail…and by providing real-time diagnostic data via ongoing assessments…Achieve3000 ELL Success provides a clear path to continual improvement.
How Achieve3000 ELL Success works . . . wonders
Achieve3000 ELL Success follows a proven process to propel ELL student achievement. With Achieve3000 ELL Success, the students' native language is used to support the growth of proficiency in English. By providing all instructional materials in Spanish or Haitian-Creole, a schema is set in the native language that supports the development of English language skills.
- Set a schema. A Spanish or Haitian-Creole e-mail customized to students' reading levels sets the schema for the topic to come. Students start reading and writing in an informal environment that helps prepare students for the daily reading/writing assignment.
- Read for information. The e-mail directs students to a native-language summary, again supplying the framework to help them read and comprehend a nonfiction article delivered in English at their English-language reading level.
- Demonstrate mastery. After reading the article, students answer questions that monitor comprehension, vocabulary mastery and higher-order thinking skills.
- Construct meaning. Students build critical cognitive skills by writing responses to open-ended questions presented in their native language.
- Form an opinion. Students also participate in a poll written in their native language so they can demonstrate opinions – the real manifestation of reading comprehension.
Key Benefits: Breaking Down the Barriers
What makes Achieve3000 ELL Success a particularly effective instructional solution is its use of students' native language to promote the growth of their English Lexile levels. What's more, Achieve3000 ELL Success brings all students together – English Language Learners and English proficient students – by giving them all access to the same content. Achieve3000 ELL Success breaks down the barriers to a true classroom community.
At most schools, there are simply not enough teachers who speak Spanish or Haitian-Creole well enough to serve a mixed-language student population. Achieve3000 ELL Success can play a major role in supporting your teachers in this regard. Simple as it is to use, the solution works at a sophisticated level to give ELL students precisely the instruction they need…with little or no teacher preparation or intervention required. Assignments are administered via e-mail automatically. Formative assessments are administered and graded automatically. Prescriptive assignments are administered automatically. Diagnostic data and reports are provided automatically.
ELL Success Fast Facts
- The only Web-based differentiated instruction solution designed for English Language Learners
- Instructional materials are in Spanish and Haitian-Creole as well as English, supporting students as they gradually improve their English reading skills
- Students' Lexile levels are assessed and monitored over time
- Applicable to the entire student population - mainstream, Special Needs, Title I, as well as ELL students
- Powerful reporting package provides real-time diagnostic data
- Engages and involves students - in fact, 70% of students continue to use the solution outside the school...after hours...even on the weekend
- Views native language use as a resource, not a liability
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