“We’ve been using A+ this year in our interventions in our mornings and after-school. It’s been very effective because we’ve been able to assign students different assessments on their reading level. For example, we have a 6th grader but they’re reading on a 3rd grade reading level. We’re able to assign them an adaptive assessment to test where they are and the skills will go up and down depending on how they answer the questions and then it will prescribe exercises for the kids to use. So that’s been very effective with the kids.
The studies; we found that the kids enjoy the studies because they’re more in-depth than other programs. We also found that if we sit down and work with the kids some when they’re not understanding, we’re able to take them through the study and help them with practice tests and then they are able to do the mastery test.
So how A+ works: The kids have a “study”, then they take a “practice test”, and then they have a “mastery test”.
And with A+, we’re able to go in, and since it’s based on the State Core Curriculum, it’s updated with the Language Arts and Math, we can take core objectives that the students are working on by grade level and then assign mastery tests from those.
I’m working with Dan Reid from A+ (Backbone Communications) and he’s developing benchmark assessments the kids will be taking from the different grade levels in the fall and spring or the fall, winter and spring.
We’ll be able to replace the weekly CBM’s with A+.”
- Carol Lowe, Title 1 Director
Student Comments:
“With A+, we learn how to read and I really like it because when I was doing my PB I went up 1 month in just 1 month, but in A+ in just 3 months I went up 2 grades…and we learn summarizing stories and I learn how to pronounce words the right way and how to tell the difference between nonfiction and fiction…and we do cause and effect.”
“A+ has been helping me in reading and it’s a program for kids like us and it’s really good.”
“A+ is good because it helps me read better and I’ve improved more by reading because it helps me a lot.”
“I think A+ is good because before I started this program I was under my level and now I’m back up. I’ve been improving just from this website.”
“I think A+ is awesome!”
Franklin Elementary School, Provo School District, Utah – A+ Intervention Success!
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