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🔖 New year, new goal-setting bookmark!
We hope you enjoyed a restful winter break and that your 2024 is off to a great start! We’d love to kick off the new year with some reflection.
Do you know educators who are empowering their students and transforming their classrooms, schools, or districts with true Science of Reading instruction? Celebrate these rockstars by nominating them for a Science of Reading Star Award! Check out our categories and list of prizes—and nominate before Feb. 15.
Here's to another year of remarkable achievements and memorable moments!
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⬇️ Monthly downloadable
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We partnered with Amplify Ambassador Allie Appel to create these goal-setting bookmarks! Allie works with her students to set goals, then checks in on their progress and places a sticker or star in the box below a goal once they’ve completed it. Once one goal is met, the students set another!
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💬 Advice and answers
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How can I prepare students for the Boost Reading Benchmark Assessment?
Beginning Jan. 15, your students will see the Boost Reading Benchmark Assessment when they log in (if your school does not use mCLASS®). Review guidance on how to best support your students with this assessment—such as ensuring they’re prepared to read out loud and have access to headphones.
Please note that if your school has purchased mCLASS, students will be re-placed into Boost Reading with their updated mCLASS assessment score or the Automatic Placement Tool.
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How can I confirm that students successfully completed the MOY Boost Reading Benchmark Assessment?
Head to the Benchmark pane on your Insights page for a summary of students' performance on the MOY Boost Reading Benchmark Assessment. For any students with Invalidated or Skipped scores, you can select the Reset Benchmark button to re-administer the assessment for them the next time they log on!
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What assessment will my students encounter this time of year in Boost Lectura?
If there is no mCLASS Lectura student data available, Boost Lectura students will take the Boost Lectura Automatic Placement Tool for their MOY re-placement beginning Jan. 15. As part of the assessment, students complete a series of Phonological Awareness, Letter-Sound Correspondence, Syllable Decoding, and Word-Decoding tasks.
Note: If your students use both Boost Reading and Boost Lectura, they will be re-placed into each program separately.
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🗓️ Calendar
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It All Starts With Data: Charting Your Course With the Science of Reading
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Join us for five consecutive days of FREE one-hour webinars focused on the evidence-based stages of a Science of Reading implementation and the critical role data plays throughout a Science of Reading journey!
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🤓 Podcast & blog
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New episode
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Science of Reading: The Podcast
Vocabulary is unconstrained, with Tanya S. Wright
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Listen now ›
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Amplify Blog
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Amplify Blog
From full operation to lasting change with the Science of Reading: Phase 3
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Read now ›
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🔗 Let’s connect
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The Boost Reading and mCLASS Facebook community is a great place to get ideas and collaborate with other educators from around the country. Join the group today to empower each other while shaping the lives and minds of your students.
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✏️ Tell us your story!
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Educators like you do amazing things with Amplify programs every day. We want to showcase those moments. Help us shine a light on the future of learning by contributing a testimonial.
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⭐ Spotlight
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Elizabeth Sillies
District Literacy Coach and Title 1 Supervisor, Three Rivers Local School District, Ohio
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This month we asked one of our amazing Amplify Ambassadors, Elizabeth Sillies, to share some helpful program advice that she shares with her teachers. She said:
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“ I encouraged teachers to walk through both levels of the demo account offered, to preview the student experience in Boost. This allowed them to see the progression of skills and expectations to know the base of what is being developed, and what they are working toward in the more advanced components. ”
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We want to hear from you!
Have helpful program advice, or an educator you’d like to nominate?
Submit your spotlight ›
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Are you receiving more than one newsletter?
If so, it’s because we have the pleasure of providing you with more than one Amplify program. Each month we’ll share the most important information you need to know based on the program(s) you use.
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