Reading+Comprehension

=**AMP (Accelerating Maximum Potential) Reading Intervention** =  The AMP Reading Intervention System is an intensive reading program designed to close reading gaps for students in middle and high school who read three or more years below grade level. The program focuses on comprehension strategies, vocabulary, and building fluency through the use of explicit instruction and highly engaging student materials. The AMP system is appropriate for school and after-school settings. There are additional components that are designed specifically for use in after-school, summer school, or community-based programs.

 The AMP Reading Intervention comes in three levels, including seven units containing 18 lessons each. All levels are geared toward middle or high school age students reading below grade level: Level 1 is for those reading on a 3rd or 4th grade reading level, Level 2 is for those on a 4th or 5th grade reading level, and Level 3 is for those on a 5th or 6th grade reading level. Each level includes a student guide, teacher's edition, AMP library books, assessment masters, and customized reading strategies (for use by other content area teachers). Also included is the Power Start CD to orient teachers to program materials and their intended use.

Content
In the AMP Reading Program, lessons alternate between vocabulary and comprehension with structured writing exercises at the end of each unit. Vocabulary is also found throughout the AMP library books and used to teach basics of word usage. Content is high interest and compelling, including such topics as extreme sports, space exploration, making movies, pyramids and skyscrapers, ancient lives and medical miracles. Graphics are bright and create a magazine-like feel, and would likely be very attractive to students up to 7th and 8th grade. Stories deal with specific incidents, helping to make content feel more genuine and immediate.

**Academic Skills** Comprehension strategies explored in the AMP Reading Intervention units are summarizing, questioning, previewing, text structure, visualizing, inferencing, and metacognition. Lessons are built in throughout the program to develop vocabulary acquisition and correct usage. As for writing skills, there are lessons on sentence and paragraph types as well as various essay styles. Language skills that are developed through the program include: recognition of parts of speech, punctuation, self-editing, and spelling.

Assessment
Blackline Masters are included for both mid-unit and end-of-unit assessment. Students reflect on their progress toward unit goals both at mid-unit and at end-of-unit. Informal assessment is included in the teacher script.

**Developmental level** Content seems to be high-interest for early adolescents and provides cyclical reinforcement of skills that is effective with this age group. Students are asked to express their own opinions and relate topics to own lives in lessons that are chunked into sections of 30 minutes or less with 15 minutes of independent reading. Teacher’s guide includes suggestions on how to model socially appropriate ways to communicate. =**AMP Yellow Book Vocabulary Words with Pictures by Unit and Lesson** =
 * [[file:Unit 1 Lesson 1 Student Guide p. 2 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || [[file:Unit 2 Lesson 1 Student Guide p. 58 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || [[file:Unit 3 Lesson 1 Student Guide p. 114 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || [[file:Unit 4 Lesson 1 Student Guide p. 2 Vocab. with pics.doc]] ||
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 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif; font-size: 130%;">[[file:Unit 1 Lesson 10 Student Guide p. 29 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[[file:Unit 2 Lesson 10 Student Guide p. 85 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[[file:Unit 3 Lesson 10 Student Guide p. 141 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[[file:Unit 4 Lesson 10 Student Guide p. 29 Vocab. with pics..doc]] ||
 * <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[[file:Unit 1 Lesson 15 Student Guide p. 44 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[[file:Unit 2 Lesson 15 Student Guide p. 100 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[[file:Unit 3 Lesson 15 Student Guide p. 156 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || <span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif;">[[file:Unit 4 Lesson 15 Student Guide p. 44 Vocab. with pics..doc]] ||


 * [[file:Unit 4 Lesson 1 Student Guide p. 2 Vocab. with pics.doc]] || [[file:Unit 5 Lesson 1 Student Guide p. 58 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || [[file:Unit 6 Lesson 1 Student Guide p. 114 Vocab. with pics..doc]] ||
 * [[file:Unit 4 Lesson 5 Student Guide p. 14 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || [[file:Unit 5 Lesson 5 Student Guide p. 70 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || [[file:Unit 6 Lesson 5 Student Guide p. 126 Vocab. with pics..doc]] ||
 * [[file:Unit 4 Lesson 10 Student Guide p. 29 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || [[file:Unit 5 Lesson 10 Student Guide p. 85 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || [[file:Unit 6 Lesson 10 Student Guide p. 141 Vocab. with pics..doc]] ||
 * [[file:Unit 4 Lesson 15 Student Guide p. 44 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || [[file:Unit 5 Lesson 15 Student Guide p. 100 Vocab. with pics..doc]] || [[file:Unit 6 Lesson 15 Student Guide p. 156 Vocab. with pics..doc]] ||