SUPPORTING FRECKLE USE AT HOME

You can support your student by encouraging them to work in the program regularly, monitoring their progress using the Tracker feature, and celebrating their growth. 

• Research shows that students who work in the Freckle program 30-minutes each day, five days per week, in a given subject area show significant growth. 

• Use the “Tracker” feature (the little backpack at the top of the screen) to monitor progress each day and over time. From the Tracker screen, select “Done” or “Progress and Growth” to review your student’s activity and growth in each skill area. 

Students can choose from a variety of practice options in Freckle ELA.  

ELA Skills Practice - This is where students gain the most from practicing in Freckle ELA!

• Freckle's Adaptive ELA Skills Practice provides students (grades 1–8) with leveled and scaffolded practice. 

• They will be able to choose from seven core informational text skills as well as four core fictional text skills.

• As students work on skills, Freckle is constantly adjusting to them. If students demonstrate proficiency on the skill, they continue to build on and develop that skill by answering increasingly difficult questions about texts at higher grade levels. If students struggle on a given skill, they are provided with scaffolded remediation questions that build the sub-skills required to then master the skill.

⭐ Encourage your student to watch the introductory videos and definitions of underlined words. 

⭐ Encourage your student to focus on a couple of skills at a time instead of jumping around to different skills. 

Articles and Stories

• Freckle's ELA Library contains nonfiction articles and fiction stories that cover a wide variety of high-interest topics and genres.

• Each article/story is available at 3 to 5 reading levels from early reader through high school, and contains reading comprehension practice and writing prompts for your students at those levels.

⭐ Encourage your student to select materials that are of interest to them.

Word Study

• Freckle's Word Study program is a systematic approach to phonics, vocabulary, and spelling instruction. It focuses on students' growing knowledge of spelling patterns, rather than their ability to memorize words. It provides students with opportunities to practice with word patterns that help them learn to spell, read, and write words.

⭐Word study is great for a quick activity or a break between other Freckle Practice sessions. 

Sight Words

• Some students will have access to Sight Words which teaches students more than 300 of the most commonly used words in the English language. While on Freckle, students will be able to hear, see, spell, and identify sight words as an exercise in boosting fluency.