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Accelerate Learning with Achieve3000 Literacy: Success Guaranteed!
Accelerate learning growth for all students with Achieve3000 Literacy’s differentiated content and instruction. It is proven to double and even triple expected reading gains in a single school year.
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Accessing Prior Knowledge
This lesson plan is for teaching students to access their prior knowledge towards enhancing reading comprehension.
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Analyzing Student Data
You know the importance of progress monitoring in order to make data informed instructional decisons. Find out how Achieve3000 makes this task easier.
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Asking Questions for Information Lesson Plan
This lesson plan allows students to practice asking questions to get information and increase comprehension.
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CCS List of Physical Science Articles in Achieve3000
For Physical Science, use this list, created by the district Secondary Science Coordinator, to quickly identify articles and activities relevant to the content throughout the school year.
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CCS List of Social Studies Articles in Achieve3000
For Social Studies, use this list, created by the district Secondary Social Studies Coordinator, to quickly identify articles and activities relevant to the content throughout the school year.
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Context Analysis (Context Clues) Lesson Plan
This lesson plan instructs students to infer the meaning of unfamiliar words by using surrounding information in text.
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Figurative Language Lesson Plan
This lesson plan provides opportunities for students to identify examples of figurative language.
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General Lesson Plan Template
Use this succinct lesson plan template for any lesson instruction. It includes the "I Do, We Do, Two Do, You Do" model.
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Generating Questions Lesson Plan
This lesson plan teaches students how to generate questions to make connections, which increases comprehension.
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Instructional Planning Resources
Go here for a variety of best practice resources, including graphic organizers and rubrics.
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Introduction to Achieve3000
Are you just getting started with Achieve3000? Check out this module to become familiar with the Achieve3000 mission and processes to accelerate student literacy.
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Lesson Collections
Find out how to find and schedule lessons to align to what you are teaching, as well as the various was you can organize your lessons.
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Lesson Types
Achieve3000 has a variety of lesson types across content to reinforce literacy. Learn how to use a combination of lessons to accelerate student literacy gains by incorporating them into your instruction.
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LevelSet Assessment
Achieve3000 Literacy uses Lexile scores to measure student reading ability. To get started, students will complete the LevelSet assessment which provides that initial Lexile measure. This is used to provide differentiated text to students. The assessment may also be completed at the mid-point of the year and again at the end of the school year.
Learn more about Lexiles, the LevelSet assessment, and how Achieve3000 Literacy monitors and adjusts the level of text for each student as their skills progress.
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Making Inferences Lesson Plan
This lesson plan guides students in making inferences using text evidence and personal experiences towards better comprehension.
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Motivating Your Students
What are some ways to help your students get excited about their literacy growth? This module will share some resources you can use to reinforce positive reading behaviors in your students.
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Motivation and Goal Setting
Dive deeper into motivating and setting goals with your students.
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National Lexile Study
Get insight into how the pandemic impacted students
across race and ethnicity, reading level, and English learner status.This year's National Lexile Study examines student engagement and literacy growth across the last three school years to provide an extensive analysis of how the pandemic impacted reading growth for 750,000 students learning from home, in school, and everywhere in between.
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Note-Taking (Mapping) Lesson Plan
This short lesson plan guides students in identifying key ideas, supporting details, and making connections among ideas in text.
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Note-Taking (Outline) Lesson Plan
This two-page lesson plan guides students in identifying the main idea and supporting details.
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Rotation Model Guide
Achieve3000 can be used in a rotation model to allow students to move from whole group instruction with the teacher to independent and collaborative work among peers. See this one-page guide that models the process.
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Secondary Achieve3000 Planning Template
Use this template to incorporate Achieve articles and lessons into your weekly lesson plans.
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Summarizing Lesson Plan
This lesson plan provides student practice in summarizing an article.