Boost Reading Review for Scottsdale
On its surface, Boost Reading (formerly Amplify Reading) is a K–5 digital literacy program designed to help students rebuild, develop, and strengthen foundational skills as they play their way through an imaginative and personalized game world. But don’t let its simple and playful nature fool you. Look under the hood and you’ll find an unparalleled adaptive algorithm, powerful analytics, and robust instruction that links back to our assessment system and core instruction.
What is Boost Reading?
Boost Reading is a K–5 student-driven literacy program that provides both enrichment and remediation for all students, leveraging the power of compelling storytelling to engage students in personalized reading instruction and practice. It features:
- High quality, research-based instruction based on the Science of Reading.
- Unparalleled personalized learning pathways.
- Compelling and imaginative storylines.
- Growth mindset.
- Insightful reports tied to actionable next steps.
How does Boost Reading work?
Boost Reading uses students’ latest reading assessment data to ensure they practice the right skills at the right time. In cases where no student assessment data is available, our embedded placement tool ensures students receive the content and skill practice most appropriate for their current reading level.
From there, students move through our curriculum along their own learning pathway where they encounter personalized content tailored to their evolving skill and grade levels.
Summary of games
With over 40 adaptive games, Boost Reading helps students of all levels grow across 13 critical skills areas, including explicit instruction in comprehension processes.
- Phonological awareness
- Letter sound correspondence
- Letter combinations
- Early decoding
- Advanced decoding
- Comprehension processes
- Key ideas and details
- Craft and structure
- Integration of knowledge and ideas
- Vocabulary
- Connected texts
- Fluency
- Close reading
See pages 16-78 of this guide for a detailed explanation of every game in the program.
What makes Boost Reading different?
Multiple dimensions
Boost Reading features full adaptivity. That means students progress along a pathway that adapts on multiple dimensions, not just one. For example, a student can work on early first-grade decoding in one game while building more advanced vocabulary knowledge in another.
Always-positive feedback
Boost Reading supports positive participation by giving students immediate and clear feedback. These results are never punitive. Instead our always-positive feedback is delivered in the context of the game world and is designed to motivate students to keep trying.
Ready-to-teach mini-lessons
Boost Reading turns data into action with reports that help educators know exactly who needs support and ready-to-teach mini-lessons that deliver targeted reinforcement and remediation.
Accelerated growth
Boost Reading accelerates student growth at all reading levels and reduces the number of students at risk of reading difficulty. In one study of 3rd graders in a large urban district who used Boost Reading for only one semester:
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- 54% of students who used Boost Reading made above average progress, whereas only 44% of students in the comparison group made above average progress.
- 54% of English learners in that same study made above average growth, whereas only 45% of English learners in the comparison group made above average growth.
Check out the above results and more in this efficacy paper.
How does Boost Reading integrate with the other parts of the literacy system?
Boost Reading + mCLASS® with DIBELS® 8th Edition
mCLASS automatically places students on an adaptive path within Boost Reading, which provides them the exact practice–both remediation and acceleration–that they need.
Click here to learn more about how Boost Reading and the mCLASS Assessment System work together.
Boost Reading + Amplify CKLA
Boost Reading extends core instruction with Amplify CKLA with personalized practice that follows the same scope and sequence.
Click here to learn more about how Boost Reading and Amplify CKLA work together.
Sample materials and demo access
Explore as a teacher
Ready to explore as a teacher? Follow these instructions:
- Click the Boost Reading Teacher Platform button below.
- Select Log in with Amplify.
- Enter the student username: t1.scottsdaleunified@demo.tryamplify.net
- Enter the password: Amplify1-scottsdaleunified
- Click the CKLA icon.
- Select a grade level from the drop-down menu at the top of the page.
Explore as a student
Ready to explore as a student? Follow these instructions:
- Click the Boost Reading Student Hub button below.
- Select Log in with Amplify.
- Enter the student username: s1.scottsdaleunified@demo.tryamplify.net
- Enter the password: Amplify1-scottsdaleunified
- Click the Hub icon
- Select a grade level.
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