MindPlay Virtual Reading Coach (MVRC): Reading Intervention
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Curriculum Requirements
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How Criteria is Met |
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• Meets the National Reading Panel® (NRP) key components of effective reading instruction. |
✓ MVRC meets critical components of scientifically established reading programs identified by the NRP: Phonemic Awareness, Phonics, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. In addition, Grammar is also instructed. |
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• Correlated to Common Core Standards (CCS). |
✓ MVRC has been correlated to the CCS for grades K to 12. |
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• Provides media rich content that represents a diverse population, (i.e., struggling learners, English Language Learners (ELL), Special Education and Regular Education students.) |
✓MVRC provides differentiated instruction and practice based on each student’s initial placement test. MVRC is a multimedia program intended for use by a broad range of students. |
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• Computer-Assisted Instructional Reading Intervention Program for any student reading at or below grade level.
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✓ MVRC accommodates students with diverse skills and reading needs. It has been highly effective for students of all ages and in disparate categories, including: adult education, GED preparation, ELL (English Language Learner), bilingual education, and those with disabilities such as ADD/ADHD or dyslexia. MVRC recognizes the distinctive needs of these learners: relevance, privacy, control and success. The program supplements any reading program from K to 12. |
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• Provides multicultural content. |
✓ Stories embedded in the program are varied themes from many different cultures. ✓ Virtual coaches are male and female and from diverse ethnic backgrounds. |
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• Meets varied learning styles of students. |
✓ Practice activities offer multiple modalities of learning that help students keep motivated. Examples include: auditory/visual discrimination, blending sounds, decoding, spelling, memory improvement (mnemonic strategy), and more. |
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• Provides scaffolded support for struggling readers. |
✓ Adaptive, automatically assigned instruction based on student performance. The virtual digital coaches model the desired learning strategy and then gradually shift the responsibility to the students. |
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• Provides content that is supported by research and utilizes high-yield ‘best practice’ strategies. |
✓ Research documents based on legacy product are available at www.mindplay.com. Example 1. multi-state, multi-site randomized control study initiated during the 2006-2008 school years included both My Reading Coach and the newly completed FLRT®-a fluent reading trainer. Significant gains were made by the experimental group vs. control group students. “Best Practices” used include setting objectives and providing feedback along with direct, explicit, and systematic instruction. |
| • Provides a personal reading specialist and speech pathologist for every student.
• Self-paced and mastery based instruction. |
✓ One-on-one student access to an experienced reading teacher and speech pathologist ensures no miss-learning. MindPlay’s unique Embedded Teacher Intelligence™ works interactively with each student. Each student works at his or her own pace. |
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• Provides explicit feedback. |
✓ Immediate positive reinforcement; certificates awarded. ✓ Immediate corrective feedback; error feedback table of more than 20,000 entries based on a student’s specific errors. ✓ Creates a safe learning environment free from embarrassment. |
| • Placement Test.
• Review Test. |
✓ Automatically assigns lessons based on student performance and review tests. ✓ Identifies specific problem areas for individual students and provides summary reporting for group remediation. ✓ Ensures students are retaining information from the program. Review tests are reassigned until mastery (70-90% mastery) is achieved. No miss-learning since student gets immediate remediation. ✓ Students get consistent instruction and remediation. ✓ Provides equality of instruction to all students. |
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• Student Accountability. |
✓ Students receive results for testing or activities that are accessible from a link that is in-view at all times. ✓ Certificates of Achievement are automatically displayed and printable when benchmark goals are met. ✓ Students becomes aware of how each lesson improves the application of their reading skills. |
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• Interactive lessons with direct, explicit, and systematic instruction.
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✓ Initial video instruction is followed by several practice activities. ✓ Lesson instruction may be replayed until students feels comfortable with the lesson. ✓ During each activity, students are given instant remediation that stresses the skills learned in the lesson, helping them to succeed. |
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• Detailed Reports provide the Student, Teacher, School, and District with up to the minute information on each student. |
✓ Maintains progress records for each student, by lesson, activity, and error through the management system. ✓ Reports can be easily generated for the district, school, class, or student. |
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• Teaches phonemic awareness utilizing the alphabetic principal to help student transition to letter-sound correspondence and other phonics lessons. |
✓ Sound production and blending of sounds are practiced. No graphemes are used for this level of instruction. The 44 sound-based lessons are instructed. |
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• Teaches phonics. |
✓ 61 Unique lessons assigned based on initial placement test results. Lessons include basic letter sound correspondence and go up to open and closed syllabication strategies, spelling rules, compound words, diagraphs, diphthongs, vowel teams, prefix, suffix, Greek and Latin roots. |
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• Teaches high-frequency words. |
✓ Lesson in both phonics and fluency components reinforce high frequency word lists. |
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• High levels of text complexity. |
✓ MVRC provides more than 1,000 authentic literature stories including decodable, high–interest stories for grade levels K to 12. ✓ Both expository and narrative texts at all grade levels. ✓ All stories have been assigned a Text Measure using the Lexile® Framework Lexile®-to-Grade correspondence (MetaMetrics). ✓ Over 50% of text Lexile measures are in the “stretch band” for CCS. |
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• Teaches grammar as a tool for improving comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. |
✓ Includes 62 grammar lessons containing not only the 8 parts of speech, but also basic sentence structure, capitalization and punctuation, simple and complex sentences, pause points and inflection, visualization strategies – all of which support vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency |
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• Silent Reading Fluency. |
✓ MVRC teaches students grammar appropriate for improved oral reading prosody. It teaches students about rhythm, stress, and speech intonation. ✓ The program works very simply by having students read stories. The program is adaptive and automated based on student performance. Story genre is selected randomly; however, a teacher may use the management system to select the type of questions asked or type of story text. The program also aims to keep students challenged while reading at their own pace by providing assignments that are individualized to match each student’s unique abilities. ✓ Each passage is designed to be read quickly – in six minutes or less. |
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• Off-the Computer lessons. |
✓ MVRC provides supplemental “White Board” lessons, which teachers may utilize as a resource to engage students in interactive lessons that align with CCS. ✓ Each White Board lesson spans multiple grade levels. |
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• Professional Development school personnel required training from MindPlay certified trainer. |
✓ One and two day staff development (6 hours each is recommended with follow-up support). |
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