Research

When designing the Smarty Ants program, the developers relied upon the findings of landmark intervention studies and the most influential reading studies of the past 50 years. Whether Smarty Ants is used with typically developing readers or at-risk readers, it provides a curriculum and pedagogy consistent with what top researchers have discovered about how children learn to read.

Achieve3000 partnered with MetaMetrics®, developers of the Lexile Framework for Reading, to help educators gain a deeper understanding of how to use the data and reports within our core literacy platform to understand the new challenges presented by college and career readiness standards, identify strategies for setting growth targets, and analyze student gains.

Achieve3000 provides any International Baccalaureate program with the support needed to reach every learner through embedded reading intervention, critical thinking supports, argumentative writing and speaking practice, and an inquiry-based approach.

Want to have a better understanding of how Lexile levels are identified, and growth is predicted with Achieve3000’s core literacy platform? This paper is a key resource for anyone looking to increase their understanding about how and why Lexile measures are such an effective tool for measuring and accelerating students’ literacy growth.

Achieve3000’s literacy solutions are built on decades of scientific research into how learners develop essential reading and writing skills. KidBiz3000®, TeenBiz3000®, Empower3000® and Spark3000® are based on the findings of widely respected researchers in the field of reading, including Dr. Robert Marzano, Dr. R.C. Anderson, Dr. Carol Ann Tomlinson,

Dr. Michael Kamil and more. In addition, the programs build upon the key findings of Reading Next and Writing Next as well as support the objectives set forth by today's college and career readiness standards.

Achieve3000®, the leading literacy platform in today’s blended learning programs, offers two differentiated instruction solutions for young learners: Smarty Ants® for Grades PreK-1 and KidBiz3000® for Grades 2-5. Smarty Ants was specifically developed to help young children build the phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension skills they need to become strong readers. With its focus on these foundational reading skills, Smarty Ants is a natural complement to Achieve3000’s patented nonfiction literacy programs, which serve students in Grades 2 through 12. One of these programs, KidBiz3000, provides elementary students with cross-disciplinary reading passages and activities matched to their individual Lexile® reading levels as part of a 5-Step Literacy Routine that builds their reading, vocabulary, discussion, and writing skills.

The Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL®), part of the Educational Testing Service (ETS) product line, is widely regarded as one of the most respected assessments of English language skills. The family of TOEFL tests

is used by more than 9,000 colleges, universities, and agencies in more than 130 countries, including Australia, Canada, the U.K., and the United States, who accept and rely on TOEFL scores.

Educators often ask the question, “How will this student likely do on the state assessment at the end of the school year?” They ask the question for many reasons including the need to inform instruction that will occur between now and the end of the school year and also to determine who needs intervention and who needs enrichment.

In brief, achieving depth in reading means getting beyond the gist and making the text one's own. Depth entails understanding the reading thoroughly and being able to discuss it, analyze it, and question it in a sophisticated way.