This year, our Tier 1 curriculum is Imagine Learning's Guidebooks. We will work through these units:
Flowers For Algernon
Sugar Changed the World
The Tell-Tale Heart
Achieve 3000 lessons
In addition to the Guidebooks units, students will be working independently on Achieve 3000 lessons. These lessons are articles that students read, and then answer questions about the articles.
For my class, students are required to complete 3 Achieve 3000 lessons at 75% or higher per week.
Students maycomplete as many lessons beyond the required 3 that they wish. I give rewards to my students for completing more than 3, and there are prizes for those who complete the most lessons.
Students may access Achieve 3000 from Launchpad and do lessons at home.
Each term, students receive an Achieve 3000 grade, which is the average of all the Achieve 3000 tests they've taken for that term.
Accelerated Reader
Accelerated Reader (AR) is a website where students take quizzes on books they've read, and they earn points for correct answers.
Students are required to earn 9 AR points per term.
There is an AR grade every term, based on the points earned and the scores students made on their quizzes.
Students may only take AR quizzes at school.
To find out how many AR points a book is worth, go to Accelerated Reader Bookfinder US athttps://www.arbookfind.com .