MyOn at The Halley
The Halley Academy has joined forces with MyON - a new online reading platform that will allow our students access to thousands of enhanced digital books. MyON provides essential support and resources, as well as promoting a love of reading and literacy. As new students joining the academy in September, we are providing login details to all Year 6 Transition students. This will allow them to activate their accounts and take part in our exciting Summer Reading Challenge!
MyON will form part of our Academy literacy strategy, allowing students to have access to a personalised literacy platform which will match students with books that will compliment their interests and reading level. Our students will have access to over 7000 digital books and curated news articles all year round. MyON also features an audio function, so words, sentences, or pages can be read to them. Also, the MyOn daily news can be translated into French or Spanish, to support students with English as an additional language and those studying Languages at GCSE. Let's get reading!
NB - Login information will be sent in due course.
Getting Started with MyON
Did you know that reading is one of the greatest skills anyone can possess? You don’t believe me? Well reading is the key that can open doors for you. The more doors you go through, the stronger your reading will become. But to get to the first door you need to enter the world of myON...
1. Open up the internet: Safari, Google Chrome
2. Type the following in the address bar: https://myON.co.uk
3. Your screen should now look like this:
4. Type in our school: The Halley Academy (Leigh Academies Trust)
5. Type in your username and password (ALL LOWER CASE)
Your username is the first letter of your first name and the first four letters of your last name. E.g. John Smith = jsmit (if your username matches someone else, you will need to add a 1 to the end of your username).
Your password is: abc.
6. Complete the ‘Interests’ page by selecting the type of books you prefer reading and click ‘save’.
7. If you scroll further down the page you will begin to see book recommendations.
8. To find out more information about a book, hover over the book and click on the blue info tab.
9. Now you will be able to see details about your chosen book.
10. You can now either choose to read the book or continue to browse.
11. It may be the case that you wish to search or browse the entire myON library to look for a book.
12. Click on ‘Library’ at the top of your screen:
13. You should now see the following on your screen:
14. If you click on ‘Recommended’ you can browse all the books myON recommends for you based on your preferences and level.
15. If you click on ‘Browse’ your screen will look like this:
16. Browsing is just like looking for a book in the library. You can click on any of the categories to look at the books. Sometimes a category will have a sub-category.
17. If you click on the blue filter icon on the left you can select a particular genre of book like fiction, non-fiction or graphic novel.
18. A quick and easy way to search for books at your reading level is to use the ‘Search’ tab at the top of the screen. It’s on the left hand side.
Your screen should now look like this:
19. MyON has so many other tools for you to use including a dictionary, highlighter and drawing tools. You can also choose whether or not to have the book read to you with the audio feature.
20. There is also myON News for you to check out where daily articles can be translated into French and Spanish.
So now you are able to browse and search for books on myON, you have the key to open different doors available to you to improve your reading skills.
Go on... open the door, see what’s inside!