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Achieve3000 Literacy - Suggested Gradebook Component Guidelines

Learn about how to incorporate Achieve3000 Literacy grades into your gradebook for student overall grades.

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Achieve3000® Literacy is pleased to offer differentiated instruction to support your existing ELA literacy, social studies, or science curriculum. These solutions can be implemented alongside your other lesson resources and formative assessment tools. To help motivate and encourage students, teachers and schools often want to incorporate Achieve3000 Literacy student work into their grade book calculations in the form of a project or effort score.

Due to the differentiated nature of our lessons, we do not recommend using Achieve3000 Literacy activity scores alone as a grade book component*. We do, however, support the following guidelines for incorporating Achieve3000 Literacy lessons into your comprehensive collection of student work considered for grading.

*It is not optimal for students to always score 100% in Achieve3000 Literacy Respond step questions. Scoring this high on a consistent basis means that students are not being challenged enough to maximize their literacy development. Research shows that students gain the most when they work within their “instructional zone”—a range that is challenging but not frustrating. In our literacy solution, this zone is a level of text difficulty at which students are able to score at least 75% on the multiple-choice activities. When students consistently score above 75%, the system automatically increases the Lexile difficulty of the text, so they stay in their instructional zone.

These guidelines are provided as suggestions for integrating Achieve3000 Literacy into your grading system. Grading decisions are solely the responsibility of each school.

 

Achieve3000 Literacy Student Work > 80% of Achieve3000 Literacy Grade

  • (40%) Read two lessons weekly, each including at least one note/annotation.
  • (15%) Scores from lesson Respond steps with first-try scores of 75% or higher receive full credit.
  • (15%) Grad the Write step response using provided rubrics.
  • (10%) Student participation in vocabulary building activities, completing appropriate graphic organizers (4-Corner Vocabulary, Word Web, etc.) and applying/using vocabulary.

 

Student Participation in Collaborative Activities > 20% of Achieve3000 Literacy Grade

  • (10%) Student participation in small-group instruction.
  • (10%) Participation in classroom discussion and debate around lesson topics.

 

Teacher Resources to Support Grading

  • Student work in Achieve3000 Literacy only gives a partial picture of student achievement. You should consider all other forms of student work and assessment used in your classroom alongside with student work in Achieve3000.
  • Achieve3000's lessons are highly differentiated for each student based on their Lexile level. To gain a better understanding of the larger issue of college and career readiness, be sure to review the student Lexiles chart, looking for the target Lexile range for your grade and comparing it to each student in your class.
  • Help motivate students to track their own progress towards their Lexile goals using our motivation and goal setting tools such as providing trackers and certificates. These documents support many of the student work components listed in this article and provide students with the tools to take ownership of their learning.
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