Amplify’s approach to standards

Amplify ELA has an integrated approach to standards instruction. Lessons target the most compelling aspects of selected text passages, and instruction focuses on one or two standards that best support that work. These standards are identified as a lesson’s focus standard(s). To ensure that students are working toward the level of rigor demanded by the standard, Amplify uses qualitative and quantitative measures, reader and task analysis, and Depth of Knowledge assessments. At the same time, working with complex text demands that readers work across standards. Amplify ELA lessons support this inclusive type of text exploration, rather than offering isolated standards practice. Those standards less central to the lesson are identified as coverage standards.

Amplify ELA makes it easy for teachers to identify and evaluate students’ work with standards:

• The focus standard(s) are identified in the Instructional Guide and called out within the activities that provide practice and instruction aligned with those standards, allowing teachers to plan or adapt instruction accordingly.
• The Exit Ticket at the end of each lesson aligns to a lesson focus standard. Exit Ticket reporting provides teachers with a quick gauge of students’ ability to work with that standard.
• Each lesson also lists the coverage standards that students work with, allowing teachers to see full standards coverage throughout the program.