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How it Works
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Students preview and read the text silently, including listening to a model reading. After answering guided reading questions, students read the text aloud and take a quiz.
Reading Assistant guides students through a comprehensive instructional sequence to maximize fluency, vocabulary and comprehension growth. Students are automatically assigned content at the appropriate reading level. Once assigned, the student will progress through increasingly difficult content.
Each selection has been carefully evaluated for readability. Selections are leveled using the Lexile Framework for Reading® readability as well as Guided Reading and grade equivalent.
Once content is assigned, the student will follow a prescribed learning path to maximize learning:
Preview and Read Silently
Students are expected to read the selection silently, preview vocabulary through the interactive glossary tool and listen to a model reading. Read more about the interactive glossary tool.
The interactive glossary tool builds vocabulary in the context of the selection.Words that are critical to the meaning of the selection are defined. Glossary definitions include:
- Correct pronunciation, definition and contextual sentence
- Picture clue - Strong visuals to motivate learners.
- Spanish translation of academic vocabulary builds a bridge from Spanish to English definition
- “Did You Know?” adds depth to the vocabulary:
- Builds connections to other uses or contexts for the word
- Presents fun facts about the word
- Includes idioms and other expressions
- Reinforces cognate transfers from Spanish
- Highlights Greek and Latin roots to deepen understanding
Students must answer guided reading questions that scaffold their comprehension.
Reading Assistant supports the development of comprehension skills. Guided reading questions support reading strategy development and scaffold student understanding:
- Each selection contains a minimum of 1 guided reading question per selection and a maximum of 10.
- Guided reading questions use reading strategies to build comprehension skills including: using prior knowledge, identifying a reading purpose, prediction, making connections, visualization, monitoring and clarifying, retelling, summarizing, using context clues for meaning, think alouds that spur students to make connections and build mental models, asking questions.
- If a student does not answer the guided reading question correctly on the first attempt the student will be prompted with hints guiding them using reading strategies.
Preview and Read Silently
- The program fluently models the correct pronunciation, inflection and prosody of the text.
- The interactive glossary builds a vocabulary base in the context of the story including:
- Spanish translation builds a bridge from Spanish to English definitions
- Did You Know? Adds many layers of depth to the vocabulary including:
- Greek and Latin roots
- Fun facts
- Spanish cognate transfers
- Other uses and contexts
- Guided reading questions:
- Designed to support reading strategy development
- Include think alouds that spur students to make connections and build mental models
- Scaffold student understanding
Record My Reading
- Students record their reading
- Each selection is comprised of between 1 and 5 selection parts
- Each part is designed to be read orally in between 2 and 3 minutes. This is the optimal time for students to read aloud.
- Student re-read each selection part at least twice.
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Students read into a microphone headset. As the students read, the software:
- Provides immediate feedback from a supportive listener
- Lets students listen to their own reading to recognize trouble words and compare their reading to that modeled by a fluent reader
Reading aloud with help helps build fluency through repeated readings of the passage. The software highlights the words that the student needs to practice.
Take the Quiz
- Quiz questions focus on comprehension skills and assess overall understanding of the complete selection including level of thinking.
- Take the Quiz
- Take the Quiz is designed to assess comprehension for the entire selection.
- Quizzes assess the comprehension skills of inference, sequence, story events, theme, character traits, figurative language, important information, compare and contrast, author’s point of view, fact and opinion, diagrams, charts and graphs, cause and effect and main idea.
- The comprehension quiz also assesses student’s level of thinking in the following dimensions: literal, inferential, evaluation and analysis.
