My favorite features
Amira
Serves as universal screener, dyslexia screener, progress monitor, and individual tutor
Running records are built automatically with AI, saving tons and tons of time for teachers
AI talks to students and provides microinterventions as they read
Aligned with Scarborough's Reading Rope
Definitions, sounding out, videos of pronunciations, rhyming, contextual information, slow down, morpheme awareness, riddles, predictions, Elkonin box, and more!
1,200+ texts
Supports all 5 reading pillars
Phonemic awareness
Phonics
Fluency
Vocabulary
Comprehension
Spanish reading support
Spanish dyslexia assessment helps staff avoid overqualifying students who have language barriers rather than a disability
Writable
Easily integrate with Ed
Higher engagement with interesting writing prompts, student-friendly rubrics
Prompts are customizable with a variety of prompt levels, Lexile levels, graphic organizers, Spanish-language support, and even college and career essay writing
Three levels of scaffolds available for each task (graphic organizers, sentence starters, fill-in-the-blank scaffolds)
Students earn points for revising and helping others make edits
Stems pop up for students and teachers to use in feedback!
Students can see their writing before and after revisions - side by side
Feedback can be audio, video, or written
Waggle
It's adaptive!
Learning paths
Enrich (fast)
Extend (long)
Transadapted Spanish support
EL and vocabulary support can be turned on
Practice activities trigger a Learn activity after multiple wrong answers
Teacher can track assignments by student, status, and content
Easily reposition the order of assignments by priority of completion
Questions for the practitioner
How can you use the data gathered from these solutions with your students?
Consider how each solution motivates students - how are students viewing and understanding points, badges, etc.?
Are families aware of the way mindset is a focal point in these solutions?
How can you work with students to understand their progress?
How are you using data to pivot in your planning?
Find out which standards have lower success and think about why. Then, determine how you will address those standards and skills. Could you grab a resource from Weekly Practice Bundles to do at your table with a small group? Does a larger group (maybe half the class) need a reteach while other students do other work?
What metrics are most important for you?