Resources to support your use of the program

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What is Boost Close Reading?

Boost Close Reading is a digital reading program that provides middle school students with rich instruction and practice around the critical work of close reading.

No matter the setting or core curriculum in place, Boost Close Reading offers a personalized, differentiated experience that helps students learn how to deeply analyze complex informational and literary texts, in just 45 minutes of independent practice a week.

 

How do I get started with Amplify Reading?

Good news! Amplify Reading has already been enabled within your mCLASS and Acadience Reading accounts. To get started with the program, you’ve got only two steps left: creating your class code and setting up your devices.

 

  • [Video] How to access Amplify Reading from within mCLASS and Acadience Reading
  • [Video] How to enable class login
  • [Video] How to create shortcuts on devices
  • [PDF] Amplify Reading launch packet

 

Note: Amplify Reading works on most classroom devices, including Windows Devices with Windows 7+, Chromebooks with Chrome OS, and Mac devices with OS 10.11+ or iOS 11+.

What else can you tell me about Amplify Reading?

As students engage in skill practice, their paths through the game world adapt to meet their unique learning needs. Amplify Reading includes more than 40 standards-aligned games that build language, foundational skills, and comprehension skills, while also developing:

  • Phonological awareness
  • Phonics
  • Vocabulary
  • Text analysis
  • Comprehension
  • Microcomprehension (i.e., the smaller aspects of comprehension that make up the reader’s mental model of a text)

 

Some additional resources that you might find helpful:

 

How do I get started with Boost Close Reading?

Good news! Boost Close Reading has already been enabled within your Amplify account. To get started with the program, you’ve got only two steps left: adjusting your students’ support levels (Core or Extra Support) and setting up your student devices. The video below will walk you through how to complete both steps.

 

What else can you tell me about Boost Close Reading?

Unlike other reading supplementals which rely solely on assessment questions and feedback, Boost Close Reading seamlessly weaves digital instruction with assessment within an immersive story where the analysis of text is a critical element in the plot. What’s more, with optional scaffolding designed specifically for EL students and struggling readers, every student can experience the same story from beginning to end.

 

What else can you tell me about Amplify Reading?

As students encounter a wide variety of complex texts, the program focuses them on specific close reading skills and provides many supports and scaffolds to aid them in deep analysis. Each unit or Chapter begins with an intro comic, which establishes a narrative drive for that chapter’s mission. After that, the chapter proceeds through three phases of instruction: interactive instruction, guided close reading, and creative application. Each of these three phases is broken into multiple blocks of instruction.

 

 

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Where to get support

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Getting started webinar

Everything you need to get started with the program is provided above. However, if you prefer learning through webinars, we have those too! A pre-recorded, on-demand webinar is available anytime at the link below. Live webinar dates are currently being scheduled. Check back for days and times!

 

Intercom chat

In addition to traditional lines of communication, our Intercom feature gives you the ability to chat with our customer support, technical support, and pedagogical support teams in real time directly from the digital platform. This ensures that issues that arise in the classroom can be addressed as quickly as possible.

 

Support teams can be reached from 4 a.m. to 4 p.m. PST, Monday through Friday.

Intercom chat

Our Intercom feature gives you the ability to chat with customer support, technical support, and pedagogical support teams in real time directly from the digital platform. This ensures that issues that arise in the classroom can be addressed as quickly as possible. Support teams can be reached from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. EDT, Monday through Friday.

Email

Our customer support, technical support, and pedagogical support teams can be reached by email at help@amplify.com from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. EDT, Monday through Friday.