Challenge level support
Amplify ensures that advanced students can work at their level through embedded Challenge supports and additional activities, while the Amplify Library, Archives, and Novel Guides provide support for more independent work.
Embedded Challenge level: Differentiated prompts in the Challenge level push advanced students beyond the core prompt by asking them to compare two texts, create counterarguments, or find evidence to support both sides of an argument.- Additional Challenge work: These extra activities at the end of many lessons challenge students to read a new text and independently apply lesson skills to a written analysis of this text.
- Novel Guides: The Novel Guides can also be a compelling resource for students needing additional challenge. The guided reading questions and writing prompts included with each Novel Guide can be printed and distributed to offer additional reading opportunities and further challenge students working at an advanced level.
- Amplify Library: For those advanced students able to pursue academic study independently, the Amplify Library offers an extensive resource of more than 650 books ranging in reading level from grades 3–12.
Archives: Within the Amplify Library, there are 17 curated Archives, each including 10–12 textual and multimedia sources, focused on a compelling topic for independent study. Archives cover topics closely related to the texts studied in the Amplify ELA units, and include two research questions to focus students’ exploration.
Archive topics include:
• Body Snatchers
• Cesar Chavez and Migrant Workers
• Chinese Cultural Revolution
• Edgar Allan Poe
• Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad
• Modern Day Romeo and Juliet
• Norse Mythology