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Accelerated Learning

When it comes to literacy gains, accelerated growth happens when a student’s actual growth goes beyond expectations based on their current reading level and the time they participate in learning.


Accelerate Learning with Achieve3000 Literacy

With the right reading intervention programs, students have been shown to boost their Lexile reading levels beyond expectations. 2022-23 National Lexile Study Shows Accelerated Lexile Growth for Every Type of Student, Including Struggling Readers

A graph called “Expected Versus Actual Growth by School Level” showing lexile growth on a range between 0 and 300. For elementary school (grades 1 to 5), expected growth is at 115, high usage of Achieve3000 Literacy (40-79 lessons) is at 203 (1.8 times more than expected growth) and highest usage of Achieve3000 Literacy(80+ activities) is at 242 (2.1 times more than expected growth). For middle school (grades 6 to 8), expected growth is at 74, high usage of Achieve3000 Literacy (40-79 lessons) is at 188 (2.6 times more than expected growth) and highest usage of Achieve3000 Literacy (80+ activities) is at 233 (3.2 times more than expected growth). For high school (grades 9 to 12), expected growth is at 61, high usage of Achieve3000 (40-79 lessons) is at 201 (3.1 times more than expected growth) and highest usage (80+ activities) is at 255 (4.2 times more than expected growth).

Reading intervention strategies such as differentiated content, learning scaffolds, and ongoing assessments can help keep your students engaged and progressing.

Differentiated content: Every student has different needs. That means you’ll see more learning gains if you adapt instruction and content to meet their abilities, interests, styles, and preferences. You can do this by first getting to know your students’ reading levels, so you have a benchmark to measure progress against throughout the year. Then, provide each student with differentiated content that matches those individual Lexile levels, so that every student has a chance to succeed.

Learning scaffolds: As students progress in their literacy journey, they should be given the support or enrichment they need to move to the next reading level based on their strengths and needs. This is where scaffolding comes in. For struggling readers, scaffolding could include vocabulary or concept previews, extra time to complete activities, access to Spanish translation for English learners, or audio support for articles. For more advanced readers, you might provide extension activities or more advanced Lexile assessments.

Ongoing assessments: To keep readers advancing through their Lexile levels, it’s important to conduct regular assessments for comprehension, and then adjust instruction based on performance. When students are able to see their progress, they can celebrate their wins and better understand where they need to improve. And educators can see where students need more help. Education technology like Achieve3000 Literacy can help make this process easier, automating steps so educators can ensure no one falls through the cracks.

To accelerate learning, students need to be able to relate to what is being taught. That means getting to know your students and providing culturally responsive literacy instruction to every child. Here’s how:

Aim for Equity: Equity means meeting the needs of all children, including their academic, physical, social, and emotional needs. When we understand the needs and interests of the whole student, we can find ways to make education meaningful and increase learning gains.

By overcoming complacency and bias, including racial, cultural, and linguistic bias, schools and districts can create the conditions to meet the needs of our students.

Go Beyond Teaching Skills: To keep instruction culturally relevant, educators need to supplement skills instruction with more intellectually stimulating teaching. In her book, Cultivating Genius: An Equity Framework for Culturally and Historically Responsive Literacy, Dr. Gholdy Muhammad draws on the work of black literacy societies, which had five central goals for learning or “pursuits” that she says every student should have:

  • Identity: Helping students learn about who they are and who they want to become, as well as about others who aren’t like them
  • Skill: Literacy skills like decoding and vocabulary, and how students can use these skills to elevate their intellect
  • Intellectualism: Teaching about new histories, people, and places to expose students to a world of ideas outside their own thinking
  • Criticality: Helping students learn about anti-racism, power, privilege, inequities, oppression, and anti-sexism, so we can cultivate children who don’t contribute to harming others
  • Joy: Finding ways to “animate” your students’ souls through literacy

Build Better Relationships with Students: Getting through to your students starts with building strong relationships. That means knowing the answers to three important questions:

  1. Who am I?
  2. Who are my students?
  3. Who are we together?

Educators who share their own experiences provide students with more opportunities to relate. They should also get to know more about students’ fears, hopes, and dreams, and talk about what they know during instruction so students will feel like their learning is relevant.

2022-2023 National Lexile Study Shows Accelerated Lexile Growth Across All Participating Racial and Ethnic Groups

While many secondary educators might not be familiar with teaching foundational literacy skills, they still need to be able to help students struggling in this area. Often, these students’ foundational reading skills are not strong enough to successfully navigate the increased rigor of academic content in grades 6-12. Without targeted intervention, these students will continue to fall behind, lose confidence, and are likely to eventually drop out of school.

Achieve3000 Literacy WordStudio makes it easy for teachers to provide instruction in phonics, decoding and word recognition through teacher-led instructional videos that can be used to support individual or group instruction. This foundational literacy collection provides many opportunities for guided and independent practice, as well as engaging lessons to test skills. It also includes extensive support materials for teachers.

To determine the most impactful skills for inclusion in the WordStudio lessons, Achieve3000 completed a literature review that included some of the most recognized experts in foundational literacy, such as Foorman and Torgesen, Beck, Denton, and Slavin. Achieve3000 also worked with licensed reading intervention specialists to identify the key foundational skills that challenge secondary students who have difficulty with reading comprehension and fluency. Each skill is addressed individually and comprehensively, offering students opportunities to apply their knowledge of the skill in various ways throughout each lesson.

How Acceleration Is Measured

There’s only one way to know if reading intervention strategies are actually working: measure student reading growth on an ongoing basis. In order to do that, you need a scientific approach that places both the reader and the text on the same developmental scale. That’s why MetaMetrics®, an educational measurement and research organization, developed a framework for calculating expected, actual, and accelerated growth.

I’ve seen growth across the board with Achieve3000 Literacy, from our most struggling to our most advanced readers, which is really incredible.

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