WordFlight complements your literacy intervention programs.
WordFlight effectively supports your Multi-Tiered System of Supports (MTSS) literacy intervention programs
WordFlight supports all tiers of learners.
WordFlight is a personalized reading intervention program for grades 3+ that uses learning science to bridge the gap between phonics and fluency.
WordFlight is typically used as a Tier 2 or Tier 3 tool. But, it is also a good fit for Tier 1 instruction for students in grades 2-3. Learn more about WordFlight for grade 2.
Learn about Tier 3 Individual Instruction
Educators can pair the online learning experience with educator-facilitated one-on-one instruction for blended learning to extend, reinforce, and deepen the learning. We offer curriculum guides and lesson plans to support explicit instruction for up to five days per week of teacher-delivered sessions. In addition, online reports allow teachers to accurately monitor students and continue to target instruction.
Learn about Tier 2 Targeted Instruction
Teachers have flexibility in how they implement WordFlight. They can use the curriculum guides and lesson plans in small group settings in addition to the online learning.
Learn about Tier 1 Universal Instruction
Teachers can also use WordFlight for their whole class in grades 2-3. By differentiating and adapting to each student’s needs, WordFlight online instruction provides the right practice at the right time.
WordFlight fits into your Multi-Tiered System of Supports
WordFlight is an online assessment and literacy intervention solution for students in grades 2-8 who cannot achieve reading fluency and comprehension because of deficits in their foundational skills.
WordFlight has the necessary elements to work within your MTSS program:
Screening
The WordFlight Screener uncovers if students are lacking the critical foundational reading skills for fluency.
The 15-minute online screener identifies students who likely have deficits in foundational reading skills and qualify for literacy intervention programs.
To provide educators with even more information about students’ foundational reading skills, the detailed profile from the WordFlight Diagnostic provides visibility into each student’s development of decoding, generalization, and automatic word recognition.
The WordFlight Screener is available to schools at no charge. Enroll your students in the free screener.
Frequent monitoring of students’ progress
Educators have access to on-demand reports of students’ usage and progress on each activity. Educators can also use the reports to engage students and their families in understanding their child’s learning journey as they progress through WordFlight.
Increasing levels of targeted support for those who are struggling
The personalized and differentiated instruction meets the individual needs of both developing students and those struggling with foundational reading skills. Built on more than a decade of research and development, WordFlight fills gaps in students’ knowledge and use of phonics, systematically developing their ability to generalize and apply that knowledge to support automatic word recognition and fluency. Additionally, the online system provides diagnostic and ongoing formative assessment as the student progresses.
Professional development
WordFlight includes professional learning throughout the school year to:
- Examine obstacles many students face in becoming proficient readers.
- Help teachers and administrators make data-driven instructional decisions.
- Enable teachers to fully implement the program with fidelity.
The use of evidence-based processes and strategies at every tier of support
WordFlight is different from other personalized and adaptive solutions that just depend on an algorithm. It is built on the science of how students learn to become skilled readers from decades of research from cognitive science. WordFlight supports the needs of diverse learners in your literacy intervention programs.
Frequently Asked Questions
Does WordFlight support students with dyslexia?
Teachers using WordFlight are able to better support all students in their classrooms, including students who have been hard to reach in the past because of learning disabilities. Many students who have been diagnosed with dyslexia have benefitted from using WordFlight.
Learn more about the science of how WordFlight helps students with dyslexia.
What students could benefit from WordFlight?
WordFlight helps students in grades 3+ who:
- Struggle with comprehension and fluency because of deficits in foundational skills
- 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
Does WordFlight support English language learners?
In addition, the tens of thousands of oral and print experiences delivered privately allow students to repeatedly explore the language and the links between sound and print. This varied and systematic practice allows students to gain competence and confidence with the meaning and structure of English through varied and increasingly difficult experiences with words and their parts.
For students in early elementary school, WordFlight helps build foundational skills from the very start.
How long does it take to see results?
Wordflight is easy to use for both educators and students
Teachers have flexibility in how they implement WordFlight, enabling them to adjust how and when they use it.
- For example, some schools dedicate 20 minutes of class time for every student to use it while others have instructional coaches use it during their intervention time.
- WordFlight enables blended learning through teacher-facilitated instruction that supports and reinforces the online lessons.
References
Arciuli, J. (2018). Reading as Statistical Learning. Language Speech and Hearing Services in Schools, 49(3S): 634.