As educators, we know that environment influences learning, and in particular, that classroom environments influence literacy development (Wolfersberger, Reutzel, Sudweeks, & Fawson, 2004). We also know this to be true for grades Pre-K to12...
With students of all ages and in almost every classroom in U.S. schools not on-track for literacy at grade-appropriate levels (as per the National Assessment of Educational Progress 2015 and 2017), the need for accelerated literacy growth is abundantly clear...
Teachers everywhere describe how tough it can be to engage every student around the same knowledge and ideas without spending tons of time customizing materials, since the learners they serve possess such varying skills and interests...
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream! Swimming and reading are not just summer indulgences. Learning to swim and learning to read require the same amount of patience, endurance, and curiosity...
Here are some of the newest products and services we spotted at ISTE 2019
To further engage K-8 students and accelerate literacy growth, Achieve3000 adds precision-differentiated fiction
One of the great (albeit exhausting) things about working for a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) company like Achieve3000 is that we exist in a state of continuous improvement. Our product is never done. We don't manufacture and roll out a car...
Like many educators, Christy Stanley wants her students to practice close reading and deep learning. But she is up against a far more seductive habit.
Achieve3000, the leader in differentiated literacy instruction, and Successful Practices Network, a non-profit membership organization committed to improving student education, have partnered to present the National Literacy Summit.
When Tiffany Hicks would read with her son Jaxson before he entered kindergarten at McKinley Elementary School, he would sometimes struggle to follow along with her.
Hicks said he had difficulty understanding some words and concepts, which would cause him to second-guess himself and get anxious when it came time for him to do some reading. Sometimes the anxiety of not knowing a word would bring Jaxson to the point of tears.
