myON

About myON

MyON has books from every genre to engage even the most reluctant readers including fiction, biographies, scientific texts, graphic novels and more. This will encourage our students to access the digital library of 7000 books and age-appropriate news articles all year round. The myON daily news articles can also be translated into French and Spanish to support the close reading skills of our students as well. Furthermore, the platform will also allow staff to remotely set reading and writing projects to develop pupil’s learning.

Whilst remote learning in these unprecedented circumstances, we understand the importance of pupils’ well-being and the benefits of reading upon this. It will not only relax pupils and give them an escape from reality, but it will ensure they are learning in a way they enjoy. Building on reading skills benefits all subject areas as well as general literacy.

The website is user-friendly with an app-like approach. We love how accessible it is. Pupils can access the reader through a web browser or using the myON app, which is available for iOS (better on an iPad than phone), Android, Chrome, and Kindle.

English teachers are able to track their classes and reward rewarding. This is both in quantity of words read but the challenges our pupils are setting themselves.

The digital books on myON’s online platform have optional scaffolds to support a child. With myON, you can have pages, sentences or words read to you. Moreover, you can also look up words you do not understand and highlight and annotate passages. Each book will contain discussion questions and writing prompts to support progress with reading and develop comprehension. This will encourage independence and expand vocabularies.