Learning at Home
Virtual Family Resources for Learning at Home
Learning at home is key to successful school-family-community partnerships. Learning at home is involving families with their children in learning activities at home, including homework, other curriculum-related activities, and individual course and program decisions.
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HOME EDITION SETUP & WELCOME LETTER (FOR TEACHERS)
Achieve 3000 provides a Home Edition to encourage family involvement in the literacy development of the students. Parents/guardians can access three types of reports for their children:
Program Work - This section allows parents and guardians to review the work that their child has submitted to the teacher.
Usage Reports - These reports help parents and guardians to see how often their children are using Achieve 3000 and to see which features are being used most often.
Performance Reports - These reports help track children's Lexile performance and college and career readiness throughout the year.
To help introduce the product to families and to help them create their Home Edition accounts, we provide two specific resources:
HOME EDITION SETUP INSTRUCTIONS
To help families create their own Home Edition account, print and send home the Setup Instructions. This document provides an overview of the Home Edition resources and suggestions for families to reinforce essential literacy skills at home. To print the Setup Instructions:
1. Open the menu (≡) and select Home Communications from the Reports section.
2. Select Home Edition Setup Instructions.
3. Select the report options from the screen provided and click View Report.
4. Print customized set of instructions for each student which includes the student’s name, username, and password, as well as a security code and the instructions which parents will need to set up their accounts.
WELCOME LETTER
Print this letter and distribute to families to help them understand how Achieve 3000 will be used in your class to strengthen student reading abilities. It provides an overview of the 5-Step Literacy Routine and their child's username and password. To access the Welcome Letter:
1. Open the menu (≡) and select Home Communications from the Reports section.
2. Select Welcome Letter.
3. Select the report options from the screen provided and click View Report.
PROGRAM WORK REPORTS (FOR PARENTS)
Parents/guardians can review work that their children have submitted to their teachers.
1. From the Home Edition main page, open the menu (≡) and select “Reports”
2. Click to expand Program Work.
3. Locate the program area and use the drop down provided to select the desired activity type.
4. The page that appears has a series of drop-down boxes. Use them to customize your report as desired.
5. Click View Report.
6. A list of activities appears on the screen. By default, the activities are sorted by the ones that were completed most recently. Click the appropriate header to sort the activities by User Name, Activity name, or Date, or Class Completed.
7. Click the title of an Activitiy to review the actual test items. This will show you which questions were answered correctly and incorrectly.
8. To export the report into an Excel spreadsheet, click Export to Excel at the top of the screen. If you are prompted to open or save, click the desired option.
9. To print the report, click Send to Printer a the top of the screen.
USAGE REPORTS (FOR PARENTS)
Parents/guardians can run reports to see how much time their children have been spending on the various areas of the program. To access Usage Reports:
Log in to the Achieve 3000 Home Edition.
From the Home Edition main page, open the menu (≡) and select “Reports”
3. Click to expand Usage Reports and select the desired report.
4. The page that appears has a series of drop-down boxes. Use them to customize your report as desired.
5. Click View Report.
6. A list of your children appears.
7. To export the report into an Excel spreadsheet, click Export to Excel at the top of the screen.
8. To print the report, click Send to Printer at the top of the screen
PERFORMANCE REPORTS (FOR PARENTS)
Achieve 3000 includes LevelSet, a Lexile placement test that is administered at least two times yearly.
Research shows that children must complete a minimum of 40 Activities in order to make significant academic progress. Achieve 3000 recommends completing at least two Activities per week, for a total of 80 Activities over the course of a ten-month school year. Since children do not usually achieve significant gains until they have completed 40 Activities, we do not advise you to analyze Lexile gains before your children have met the 40-Activitiy usage goal.
To help track Lexile gains through the year and to monitor children's progress towards college and career readiness, parents can access the Performance Reports:
1. From the Home Edition main page, open the menu (≡) and select “Reports”
2. Click to expand Performance Reports:
3. Select the desired report.
4. The page that appears has a series of drop-down boxes. Use them to customize your report as desired.
5. Click View Report.
6. To export the report into an Excel spreadsheet, click Export to Excel at the top of the screen. If you are prompted to open or save, click the desired option.
7. To print the report, click Send to Printer at the top of the screen.
LEXILE INFORMATION FOR PARENTS & STUDENTS
https://metametricsinc.com/parents-and-students/lexile-for-parents-and-students/lexile-for-reading/
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i-Ready Family Center: Link
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Microsoft Teams for Parents: Link
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National Center for Families Learning (NCFL): Link
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NOAA: NOS Education | Just for Kids
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STEM Rising: Link
Storyline Online: Link
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