WordFlight is a personalized reading intervention program that uses the science of reading and learning to bridge the gap between phonics and fluency.
Unlocking fluency and accelerating learning.
It’s estimated that up to 50% of U.S. students struggle with the foundational skills they need to become fluent readers. Even with high quality early instruction, for many of these students these foundational skills aren’t “sticking.”
Scientific evidence points to a common missing foundational skill and essential component of reading fluency: automatic word recognition. Automatic word recognition is the ability to apply decoding skills with ease. It is also the best predictor of fluency.
Educators need easy-to-implement literacy interventions to help these struggling readers, especially those in middle school and above, get on the path to fluency.
WordFlight helps move 90% of struggling middle school students to proficiency in foundational reading skills with just 60-80 minutes a week for one school year.
WordFlight takes a new approach to helping students achieve reading fluency and build their confidence in reading using evidence from the Science of Reading and the Science of Learning.
- The Science of Reading identifies what skills students need to become fluent.
- The Science of Learning reveals how to make decoding skills “stick” and become automatic using structured, varied practice.
How WordFlight works:
1. Identify
The quick, online WordFlight Screener identifies students who struggle with foundational reading skills.
2. Reveal
The powerful, patented WordFlight Diagnostic provides visibility into each student’s development of decoding, generalization and automatic word recognition skills, the best predictor of fluency.
3. Take Flight
The online Instructional Program enables students to receive structured, systematic and varied practice to build automatic word recognition in a game-like environment.
4. Soar
Teacher-directed lesson plans support explicit instruction in a multi-tiered system of support framework.
Reporting and management tools to monitor progress.
5.Support
WordFlight is an effective intervention for struggling readers in grades 3 and above.
Students who continue to struggle with reading in late elementary and beyond often have gaps in their foundational reading skills. This means they may:
- Read slowly, with great effort and difficulty
- Struggle with decoding
- Are unable to easily identify and distinguish vowels
- Do not understand how syllables work or have difficulty breaking words into syllables
- Cannot quickly and automatically apply and generalize knowledge of phonics to new words or to connected text
- Have difficulty spelling
Because WordFlight focuses on building foundational reading skills, it is an effective MTSS Interventions for Tiers 2 and 3.
Grade 2
For students in grade 2, WordFlight helps build foundational skills, including automatic word recognition, from the very start.
WordFlight is also effective for special populations, including:
Students with
dyslexia
Learners
special needs
Schedule a demo to experience WordFlight in action.
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