Energize your after school programs and ignite real learning. After school programs are always a challenge. You need instructional solutions that enhance reading and writing proficiency on the path to improved high-stakes test results and AYP goals. You need after school assignments and activities that are integrated with instruction during the regular school day. You need to keep students' energy and attentiveness up during their extended school day.
Now, there's a new solution designed to meet all your after school program requirements: Achieve3000 After School Success from Achieve3000®, publisher of the acclaimed KidBiz3000™, TeenBiz3000® and Empower3000™. It's the first Web-based, differentiated reading and writing instruction solution that reaches every student at his or her individual Lexile® level…and that's proven to accelerate Lexile score growth and high-stakes test results.
How Achieve3000 After School Success works…wonders
With Achieve3000 After School Success, students' Lexile levels are assessed initially using LevelSet™, a proprietary assessment tool that determines each student's level of comprehension for informational text. This enables progress to be made immediately, without spending precious time identifying students' correct levels. Then, by providing level-appropriate, standards-aligned assignments via e-mail...and by providing real-time diagnostic data via ongoing assessments…Achieve3000 After School Success provides a clear path to continual improvement. Importantly, the solution follows a scientifically validated, five-step process to foster achievement:
- Set a schema. Students read and reply to a daily e-mail, which sets the stage for what they are about to read. Students start reading and writing in an informal environment that encourages them to make text-to-self connections.
- Read for information. The e-mail directs students to an appropriately leveled, nonfiction article at the Achieve3000 website that engages students via real-world topics.
- 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.
- Form an opinion. Students also participate in a poll about the article so they can demonstrate opinions – the real manifestation of reading comprehension.
Key Benefits
A highly effective extension of the school day
One of the most effective ways to deploy Achieve3000 After School Success is in combination with Achieve3000's differentiated instruction solutions, KidBiz®, TeenBiz® and Empower® during the regular school day. Th, during the regular school day. The continuum of language arts instruction and practice, using the same core system and instructional schema, is comfortable for kids. Best of all, it contributes to gains in reading and writing achievement.
- Connect regular classroom to extended classroom. Teachers in both classrooms see each student's work and share reports, so teaching is consistent and seamless.
- Purchase for extended day, but use it all day, every day. Once Achieve3000 After School Success is enabled for students, they can use the powerful reading and writing tools in their regular classroom, at home, in study hall…anywhere, 24/7.
- Makes after school absolutely great. Contests, polls and a stock market simulator make after school even more enjoyable. After a full day of school, Achieve3000 After School Success makes your program something that kids look forward to.
- Create a literacy initiative that begins at school, extends after school, and ends at home. Achieve3000 After School Success links student learning, extending reading and writing activity throughout the day.
Funding flexibility
Usage throughout the extended school day gives you tremendous funding flexibility. Fund Achieve3000 After School Success out of an after school budget, and you can also use the program during regular school hours as a supplement to your language arts curriculum. Fund KidBiz, TeenBiz or Empower from a different source or budgetfor example, Reading First or Title Iand you can also deploy Achieve3000 After School Success. Either way, your students win…and your budgets win.
Achieve3000 After School Success Fast Facts
- The only Web-based differentiated instruction solution designed for use in after school programs
- Scientifically proven to increase reading and writing proficiency
- Applicable to the entire student populationmainstream, Special needs, Title I and ELL students
- Differentiated assignments and formative assessments are state-standards based
- Powerful reporting package provides real-time diagnostic data
- Available in English, Spanish and Haitian-Creole
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