Student Personalized Learning Support Helps Students Who Struggle With Reading
Pearson’s iLit core reading program for struggling readers is designed to meet the national crisis of students who simply cannot read at the appropriate grade level and who, by the time they reach high school, are dropping out, checking out, or acting out. iLit engages students like no other reading program. The first and only complete instructional solution built and delivered on the iPad, iLit can offer each student personalized learning support based on their own instructional needs, engaging interactivities, and built-in reward systems that motivate students and track their progress. (We began this program this school year and have seen phenomenal success with the most struggling readers!)
Issues this Best Practice Addresses:
This program was developed to address students who were 200 lexile points below average; high tier 2/low tier 3 on acuity; and ISTEP bubble kids in language arts
Major Challenges to Implementation:
Some of the challenges were the technology challenges inherent with the implementation of iPads with grade 6 students as well as the teacher learning the new curriculum
Benefits Derived from Implementing this Best Practice:
Lexile growth on average of over 100 points, average students of reading over 300,000 words, over a years growth in reading, great gains in writing ability, stronger identity of selves as readers and writers
Evidence Illustrating Success:
increased student achievement
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Submitted by: Milissa Crum, Highland Middle School