SUPPORTING FRECKLE USE AT HOME
What is Freckle?
Freckle is an online learning platform that allows students to practice Math and English Language Arts at their own level. Freckle continuously adapts to each student’s individual skills, so each student receives the appropriate challenge, whether they are working at, above, or below grade level.
English Language Arts
Accelerate literacy equitably with differentiated resources.
K-12 coverage of standards and skills
Over 1,000 nonfiction and fiction passages that adapt to each student’s level
Teachers can assign a specific standard for some or all students to practice
How does my student log in to Freckle?
SDUHSD students use the Clever single sign-on to access Freckle.
Students will start on my.sduhsd.net.
Select the Clever tile on the left side menu
Click "sign in with Google"
Sign in the same way they do for their district email
Select the Renaissance tile, it's the blue and green R.
Click on the Freckle tile.
Once in Freckle, students will choose a teacher's name and then select whether they want to practice ELA or Math.
*Note: Incoming 7th grade students accessing Freckle over the summer will log in through the Renaissance site directly. Please refer to these instructions for logging in.
How can I support my student's use of Freckle at home?
General Recommendations
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.
English Language Arts Practice Recommendations
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.