mySciLEARN news

Each brand-new printable teacher manual includes exercise goals and objectives, task descriptions, progress monitoring tips, and more. We've also added some new exercise worksheets, available to both teachers and students, and updated interventions.

The Exercise Progress by Date Report shows when a student is struggling for 3 or more days by highlighting those exercise scores in red.

The Reading Comprehension component includes the following features:

• Fresh, engaging exercise designs provide the right blend of variety and predictability to maximize motivation for learners, while progress celebrations at consistent increments keep them involved.
• A consistent “heads-up display” in each exercise provides students with real-time feedback during their Reading Comprehension sessions, including progress details, streaks and points, and easy access to self help.

• Integrated, immediate, corrective feedback helps learners stay motivated and progress more quickly. Students have more autonomy in getting themselves “unstuck” and back on track with automated interventions that provide just-in-time support.
• Explicit instruction on language concepts, grammatical structures, and vocabulary helps English language learners and special education students.
• Increased adaptivity creates a more personalized experience, enabling learners to fast-track through content they find easy and slow down when the content gets challenging. Greater gains can be achieved when each learner spends more time working in the zone that’s the correct level of difficulty for them.
• Additional demo access points let teachers and students dig deeper when previewing tasks in an exercise.

To learn more see the following topics.

• Fast ForWord Reading Comprehension
• System requirements

We've also added student & teacher resources, including printable teacher manuals, worksheets, interventions, and more. Students can access worksheets from their dashboards.

How it works with mySciLEARN

Reading Comprehension is a component of the Fast ForWord product. Here’s a quick overview of how it integrates into the mySciLEARN platform:

• Licensing. Reading Comprehension is included in your Fast ForWord product license and support package. See About licenses.
• Auto Assign. Fast ForWord Auto Assign places students into Reading Comprehension as needed. See Fast ForWord Auto Assign.
• Manual assignments. To create your own Reading Comprehension assignments, follow the same steps as you would with any Fast ForWord component. See Create Fast ForWord assignments.
• Reading Progress Indicator. RPI works with Reading Comprehension as any other Fast ForWord component. See About Reading Progress Indicator (RPI).
• Starting student sessions. Students access and use the Reading Comprehension component in the same way they use other Fast ForWord components. See Start Fast ForWord sessions.
• Monitoring student sessions. You can monitor Reading Comprehension sessions the same way you monitor other Fast ForWord components. See Monitor student sessions from a browser.
• Demos. Both staff and students can access the Reading Comprehension demos. Additional access points let teachers and students preview more tasks in an exercise. See Fast ForWord demos.
• Student import. Reading Comprehension has been integrated into the student import feature. See Import new students from a file.
• iPad. Reading Comprehension works on iPad through the Safari browser. See iPad user guide.
• Reports. All Reading Comprehension reports are available. See About reports.