Blended Learning Programme
A Grade Ahead Online
A proprietary blended learning programme that combines online interactive activities with paper-and-pencil worksheets — designed to keep your child engaged and learning, anywhere.
What It Is
Learn More About A Grade Ahead Blended Learning
A Grade Ahead has implemented a proprietary blended learning programme that offers our students the best of both worlds: paper and pencil lessons of academic content combined with online content and adaptive activities, all with immediate explanation and automatic grading. The cornerstone of A Grade Ahead has always been our outstanding curriculum — we are proud to continue that tradition as we embrace technology and offer our students a more efficient way of learning.
Participating Grade Levels
- 2nd (math & English)
- 3rd (math & English)
- 4th (math & English)
- 5th (math & English)
- 6th (English)
- 7th (English)
- 8th (English)
- Pre-Algebra 1
- Pre-Algebra 2
- Algebra 1
- Geometry
How It Works
How Does A Grade Ahead Blended Learning Work?
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As in the past, your student’s weekly lesson will be available in a paper booklet. Academy students will go to their weekly class and an educated teacher will present the lesson, Enrichment at Home families will have the option to either teach the lesson independently, as they do now, or add an online instructor who will present the lesson via virtual classes.
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Each weekly lesson includes one day of practice questions for students to complete with pencil and paper. The helps ensure that they have a good understanding of the lesson.
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To reinforce the lesson, your student will complete online content and interactive activities at A Grade Ahead Online’s website—online.agradeahead.com. Each student will have a unique log-in and password and can complete the activities at his or her leisure. (The amount of homework is the same as it has been in the past, the open equivalent of three days of homework exercises.)
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Your student’s work will be automatically graded. The online activities also have a rationale for all questions, so students can see why they got the question correct or incorrect.
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You can log in to check your student’s progress, look at reports, view the badges your student has earned, and more! Just use your student’s log in and password to access his or her dashboard.
What’s Included
A Grade Ahead Blended Learning Components
Monthly Blended Learning Lesson Booklet
Your child should use the monthly lesson booklet throughout the month until he or she receives a new booklet the following month. Each math and English booklet consists of four sections, one for each week of the month.
Weekly Lessons: A lesson with new topics is introduced every week to keep students from getting bored.
Practice Questions: Paper and pencil questions help students learn the lesson of the week. Answers are provided to check your work.
Interactive and Adaptive Activities
After learning the weekly lesson and completing paper and pencil worksheets, your student will log in to A Grade Ahead Online to complete up to three more days of online activities within the week. These activities are colorful and have fun features like drag and drop questions, matching games, as well as traditional word problems. It’s best to complete these activities on either a computer or tablet. Mobile phones are not optimal and make it difficult to perform effectively.
Numerical Drills
If your child is enrolled in math and is in 2nd grade through Pre-Algebra I, he or she will complete numerical drills through our A Grade Ahead Online program. These drills will help your child improve his or her arithmetic skills, like addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, etc. If your student performs well on the first set of numerical drills, they will be challenged to more difficult drills, adapting to your student’s skill level.
Quizzes
At the end of each week, your student will take an electronic quiz to demonstrate his or her knowledge. The fourth quiz of the month will have a standardized testing format so that your student gains confidence and has practice preparing for these important tests.
Performance Reports
A series of reports are available on your student’s A Grade Ahead Online dashboard. To access, use your student’s login and password. You will be able to drill down into all of your student’s activities to spot his or her scores, the amount of time each set of activities took, how many activities were completed and more.
Inside the Programme
A Grade Ahead Online Activities
After learning the lesson of the week and completing practice problems in their curriculum booklets, students will then complete the remainder of their course online. There are many different types of activities including drag and drop, multiple choice, matching, fill in the blank, and more. See sample activities from our math and English curriculum below.
Note: Students complete multiple activities per day per subject and have three days of activities to complete in a week, similar to the traditional A Grade Ahead structure.
For Parents
A Grade Ahead Blended Learning Terminology
A quick glossary of terms you’ll see in the booklet, on the dashboard, and in conversations with your child’s teacher.
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A course is all online activities that need to be completed in one week. The activities will be broken into 3 Days of work.
Math: All the curriculum-related/punctuation facts and word-problems activities for 1 week.
Numericals: All numerical online activities for 1 week.
English: All Vocabulary, Grammar, and Comprehension activities for 1 week.
The name of the course (displayed below the image) specifies the subject. Topic-sheet numbers (in the image alongside): Math, Place Value — Tens/Hundreds (M3).
- Day of Homework (also referred to as an Adventure)
Online students have three “Days” of online activities to complete over one week.
- Activity
An activity is a set of exercises within a course that students complete. Three sets of online activities should be completed each week.
Math: Curriculum facts and word problems.
Numerical Drills: Online numerical drills.
English: Vocabulary, Grammar, and Comprehension.
- Adaptive Learning
The student is presented with challenging or easier questions based on his/her performance in the initial exercises of a course.
Our normal path is “intermediate” for Activities 1 and 2.
Numerical Drills: If a student scores greater than 85% in Activity 1 and Activity 2, the student is given an “Advanced” track in Activity 3.
If the student scores < 75% in both exercises, he/she is given an easier set of questions under Activity 3. These are called “Standard.” Math: If a student scores greater than 85% in Activity 1 and 2, the student is put on an “Advanced” track for Word Problems under Activity 3. Otherwise, the student remains on the “Intermediate” track.
English: If a student scores greater than 85% in Activity 1 and 2 of Comprehension, the student is put on the “Advanced” track under Activity 3. Otherwise, the student remains on the “Intermediate” track.
- A Grade Ahead Online
The website at online.agradeahead.com that students will use to complete their online interactive activities.
- Badges
A digital “badge” is awarded to a student who completes one full month’s course of either Math or English. The badge displays on the dashboard.
- Blended Learning
Incorporating both traditional and electronic methods to teach students. A Grade Ahead is using lessons taught by teachers in person that include practice problems on paper along with a website using interactive online activities.
- Dashboard
The main screen where the courses that are assigned to a student will show. Each student has a unique dashboard.
First-Time Setup
Logging In for the First Time
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An email with a unique login and password for each of your students will be mailed to you. Please go to online.agradeahead.com and log in. You may change your password to something you will remember.
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Before your student begins working online, you will need to login and approve the COPPA agreement acknowledging that your child will be using an online interactive activity-based website.
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As the first season, a tour of A Grade Ahead Online will begin. We suggest watching this with your child so it shows how to maneuver through the website.
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A record video for parents is available under the Tips and Resources tab on your student’s dashboard. This will walk you and your student through the online activities and provides tips on how to successfully complete various tasks.
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Your student is ready to start completing online activities after learning the weekly lesson in the blended learning lesson paper booklet!
Need help getting set up?
Our Enrichment Specialists are available 9am–5:30pm EST, Monday through Friday, by calling 866.628.4628. Prefer chat? Use the chat feature on our website any time.
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