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One View of the Whole Child

Amira Adventures for
PreK - Grade 2

Amira Adventures brings together three essential sources of evidence to capture and understand the whole child:

Teacher Observation: Structured insights from daily classroom interactions, capturing what only educators can see.
Student Portfolio: Authentic work over time that shows growth, thinking, and application in real contexts.
Direct Assessment with Amira: Interactive, adaptive tasks that provide precise, objective measures of skill development.
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Amira’s AI engine will synthesize all three into a single, psychometrically validated profile — ensuring every insight is balanced, reliable, and instructionally meaningful.

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Built on the Great First Eight Foundation

Amira Adventures is built on the research foundations of Great First Eight (GF8)—a PK–2 curriculum designed to create coherence across curriculum, instruction, and assessment. GF8 is directly embedded in Adventures so assessment and instruction stay connected as students grow.‍

Coherent by design: Adventures organizes evidence around a consistent PK–2 progression, so insights map to what comes next, not just a score.
Curriculum-aligned: Assessment evidence connects to instruction and helps educators identify specific instructional targets.

‍Built for real classrooms: Combines teacher observation, portfolios, and direct child tasks so early learning is measured authentically.
Designed for the whole child: Addresses not only math and literacy, but science, engineering, social studies, social and emotional learning, and more.
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WHAT IS AMIRA ADVENTURES?

Holistic, Authentic and Built for Little Learners

Young children deserve assessment that meets them where they are — through play, observation, and genuine engagement, not standardized testing pressure.

Three ways to know every child

Adventures incorporates teacher observation, portfolio, and direct child assessments, honoring how early childhood educators already understand their students while adding powerful, structured data.

Playful by design, rigorous by nature

Every assessment task is built specifically for young children, using developmentally appropriate approaches that feel like adventures — not tests. Children engage; teachers learn.

Actionable, not just categorical

Amira Adventures goes beyond labels to understand the whole learner. It identifies specific instructional targets — giving teachers the precise information they need to move every child forward.

Smarter use of assessment time

Formative data continuously collected based on what has been taught feeds into summative scores, dramatically reducing the assessment burden on teachers and children alike.

KEY ADVANTAGES

Assessment Designed for How Children Learn

Adventures solves structural failures of traditional PreK–2 assessment: episodic snapshots, curriculum disconnect, and narrow focus on only a fraction of development.

Continuous, Not Episodic

Adventures moves beyond three benchmark windows a year. Continuous formative measurement reflects how children actually develop — in the daily flow of learning, not just on test day.

Curriculum-Coherent

Powered by Amira’s Coherence AI, Adventures aligns assessments to state standards, your specific curriculum’s scope and sequence, and instructional calendars — assessing what has actually been taught.

Equity-Forward Design

Multiple methods of evidence collection means every child has a way to show what they know. Adventures is designed so no single format disadvantages any learner.

Technology That Works for Teachers

Cutting-edge technology reduces assessment burden, not increases it. Formative data feeds into summative scores automatically — so teachers spend their time teaching, not testing.

Bridges PreK to K–2

A seamless system spanning PreK through Grade 2 means children’s growth is tracked across the critical early years — giving schools a coherent picture from first day to third grade readiness.

Authentic Evidence

For Pre-K through Grade 2 students, teacher observations and portfolio evidence count as real assessment data — not an afterthought. Adventures integrates authentic evidence alongside direct child assessments for a fuller, fairer picture.

BUILT ON AMIRA’S PROVEN FOUNDATION

Teacher Insight. Student Work. Direct Assessment.

Amira weaves these together into a coherent, trusted understanding of each child — capturing learning as it naturally unfolds, not in isolated testing moments.

Authentic Observation

Adventures builds on the power of teacher observation while extending it through Amira’s ability to listen, respond, and engage children in new ways.

Interactive experiences like oral retelling and spoken response reveal authentic evidence of language, comprehension, and thinking — capturing learning as it naturally unfolds.

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Curriculum Coherence

Amira’s Coherence AI maps standards, curricula, and instructional calendars so children are assessed on what they’ve been taught — not on content they haven’t seen.

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Continuous Measurement

Growth doesn’t happen three times a year. Adventures reflects development the way it actually occurs — continuously, across every learning interaction.

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From Evidence to Insight, Effortlessly

Capture What Matters

Assessment lives seamlessly within the flow of learning where teachers observe and collect student work, and children engage with Amira in playful, interactive tasks.

See the Whole Child

Amira combines evidence from every domain and source into one comprehensive, reliable picture of each child’s development.

Act With Clarity

Insight arrives in real time, paired with meaningful outcomes and clear direction — empowering confident decisions for every child’s next step.

Amira is State-Validated

Amira Adventures is built on Amira's proven foundation.

Amira has earned approval in states across the country — from being the only unanimously approved screener in California to mandated assessment status in Idaho, New Mexico and more.

Amira is Trusted by Districts Focused on Early Learning

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Amira State-Wide Contracts

Seamless Coverage

PreK-2

Every Child Deserves to be Seen Fully

Amira Adventures is available for pilot programs. Join curriculum partners and early adopters shaping the future of PreK–2 assessment.

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