How can a teacher of older students adequately cater to wildly diverse needs in their classroom?
How can a parent easily support a student at home?
Some students need many, many hours of intervention to begin to participate in the curriculum. Others are coping but are far from their potential. Agility with Sound provides structured literacy for older students at every stage – building their skills, extending those ready for more, and staving off boredom
Our core resources, Wordchain and Comprehendit, provide the solution for both teacher and parent.
Both are solidly grounded in the Science of Reading; both are compatible with any structured literacy programme.
Some students need many, many hours of intervention to begin to participate in the curriculum. Others are coping but are far from their potential. Agility with Sound provides structured literacy for older students at every stage – building their skills, extending those ready for more, and staving off boredom
Our core resources, Wordchain and Comprehendit, provide the solution for both teacher and parent.
Both are solidly grounded in the Science of Reading; both are compatible with any structured literacy programme.
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Comprehendit
The Comprehendit programme combines a series of interactive digital books with a recorded New Zealand voice that asks questions, modelling the thinking of good comprehenders. Then instead of boring school work, i.e. book reviews and summaries, each book asks the students to write from a different perspective than is presented in the book.
Components
(Physical) Letter tiles, sheets, levelled kits etc.
While students learn through WordChain, it can help to have other ways to build their skills. Our fluency sheets, letter tiles, sliders and puzzles teach students to recognise the repeating patterns in words. Students learn to look for those familiar patterns and then add up the components quickly.
Free Assessment Tool for Teachers and Parents
Our free assessment tools take the guesswork out of knowing where to start your students. They tell you most of what you need to know about where reading and spelling are breaking down, and indicate the best route forward for your students. track using the Agility with Sound system.
Free Assessment Tool for Teachers and Parents
What is yet to learn?
What can they do now?
What can be developed?
Identify exactly where literacy skills are missing. Our assessment tools take the guesswork out of knowing where to start your students. They tell you most of what you need to know about where reading and spelling are breaking down, and indicate the best route forward for your students. track using the Agility with Sound system.
Wordchain Game
Wordchain is more than phonics. It builds the skills students need to apply phonics knowledge to their reading and spelling: segmenting and blending words, discriminating between similar sounds, such as p/b, or sh/ch, and phonological awareness (thinking in the sounds of words) to an instinctive, automatic way of thinking. Some students need a great many hours of practice to achieve this, and Wordchain delivers it.
Choose from our senior version designed with students in Years 5-10 in mind or our Junior version features graphics and rewards suitable for younger students.
Comprehendit
The Comprehendit program combines a series of interactive digital books with a recorded New Zealand voice that asks questions, modelling the thinking of good comprehenders.
Then instead of boring school work, i.e. book reviews and summaries, each book asks the students to write from a different perspective than is presented in the book. The students are guided, mostly sentence by sentence, how to write a report from a scientist explaining the issue to a government agency, or a reporter at the scene… Stuff that is relevant and empowering.
And, they really respond. You can almost hear their voices getting deeper as their confidence in comprehension and literacy grows.
Free Assessment Tool for Teachers and Parents
What is yet to learn?
What can they do now?
What can be developed?
Identify exactly whereliteracy skills are missing. Our assessment tools take the guesswork out of knowing where to start your students. They tell you most of what you need to know about where reading and spelling are breaking down, and indicate the best route forward for your students. Track using the Agility with Sound system.
Wordchain Game
It builds the skills students need to apply phonics knowledge to their reading and spelling: segmenting and blending words, discriminating between similar sounds, such as p/b, or sh/ch, and phonological awareness (thinking in the sounds of words) to an instinctive, automatic way of thinking. Some students need a great many hours of practice to achieve this, and Wordchain delivers it.
Choose from our senior version designed with students in Years 5-10 in mind or our Junior version features graphics and rewards suitable for younger students.
Comprehendit
The Comprehendit programme combines a series of interactive digital books with a recorded New Zealand voice that asks questions, modelling the thinking of good comprehenders.
Then instead of boring school work, i.e. book reviews and summaries, most books ask the students to write from a different perspective than is presented in the book. The students are guided, mostly sentence by sentence, how to write a report from a scientist explaining the issue to a government agency, or a reporter at the scene… Stuff that is relevant and empowering.
And, they really respond. You can almost hear their voices getting deeper as their confidence in comprehension and literacy grows.
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