WordFlight uses evidence-based strategies for reading.
WordFlight follows proven, evidence-based strategies for reading to diagnose and provide targeted instruction to improve decoding and automatic word recognition, creating a path to reading fluency and comprehension.
What type of instruction do many students need after systematic phonics instruction?
Research shows that systematic phonics is not enough for struggling readers. That is, students may learn the rules of phonics but can not generalize or apply them to new words or text. To succeed as fluent readers for comprehension, students must be able to quickly recognize words.
Only when word recognition skills become automatic can readers focus on comprehending the meaning of the text—the goal of reading.
What makes WordFlight unique and effective at making word recognition automatic?
WordFlight is the only solution that brings the science underlying the development of automatic skills to reading assessment and instruction. Through systematic structured practice, WordFlight uses the Varied Practice Model to train the brain to recognize words automatically.
Activating the gateway skill of automatic word recognition is the on-ramp to fluency and reading to learn. WordFlight’s fully digital, online program can quickly identify, diagnose, and help developing and struggling readers get their academic careers on track.
Explore the research that supports WordFlight’s approach:
Automaticity of Word Recognition Is a Unique Predictor of Reading Fluency in Middle-School Students
WordFlight follows proven, evidence-based strategies for reading to diagnose and provide targeted instruction to improve decoding and automatic word recognition, creating a path to reading fluency and comprehension.
Why We Need a New Approach to Reading Assessment and Intervention
K-12 leaders who oversee literacy programs face two parallel challenges: developing the foundational skills of all young elementary readers while at the same time remediating the skills of struggling readers in middle and high school.
This white paper discusses a better approach that focuses on foundational reading skills like decoding and automatic word recognition to address chronic reading deficits.
The Science of Reading Fluently:
What Comes After Systematic Phonics Instruction?
Systematic phonics instruction is important to an effective literacy program, but often not enough. Evidence shows that a different form of structured practice that builds automatic word recognition is the next step in preparing students to read fluently for comprehension.
Dr. Carolyn Brown breaks down the latest science of reading evidence on how to help students read fluently for comprehension in this webinar.