What if your students read 30 minutes a day in their just right zone?
LightSail Supports Growing Readers
Writing Modules, Vocabulary Assignments, Fluency Assessments and so much more!
WRITING MODULES
Engage students in a comprehensive and diverse digital writing experience
ESSAY WRITING
Essay Writing is appropriate for students of all ages. The teacher supports the student writing process by engaging them in deliberate planning that includes a feedback cycle. Students then apply their improved/approved plan to write their best essay draft. Students use feedback in the recursive process to grow!
BOOK REPORT
Teachers can choose from a variety of templates to support student writing. Teachers can assign or allow free choice books to be read. Students engage with the book by taking notes and filling in the supportive template. Grow student writing by engaging in a rubric-structured feedback cycle.
WRITING SKILLS BUILDER
Using the Writing Skills Builder, parents can choose from a variety of grade-level appropriate questions and create customized language practice assignments for their student.
INFORMAL WRITING BURSTS
Informal Writing Bursts are no-risk writing opportunities to foster a love of language, creativity, fun, and 21st century writing. A few well-loved Burst formats include Tweets, social media posts, conversations, and hashtags.
WRITING SKILLS BUILDER
Using the Writing Skills Builder, parents can choose from a variety of grade-level appropriate questions and create customized language practice assignments for their student.
VOCABULARY ASSIGNMENTS
Grow student vocabulary and comprehension with Cloze and Spelling Bee embedded assessments
VOCABULARY ASSESSMENTS
The teacher can create personal vocabulary assessments from words their child spelled incorrectly in Spelling Bee, asked for the definition of while reading, and/or missed while answering a Cloze assessment. The teacher can also choose what questions the child is asked about each word. What’s better than differentiation? Customization.
SPELLING BEE
Using a Lexile-aligned word list from the most recently read Power Texts, students receive 5 Spelling Bee words to practice before an assessment. To celebrate student growth, Badges are awarded for a strong Spelling Bee score.
WORD WORK
Students receive a second chance on Cloze (fill-in-the-blank) assessments they missed. Word Work serves as a personalized vocbulary acquisition tool.
FLUENCY ASSESSMENTS
Fluency Assessments grow student reading speed, accuracy and prosody with performance feedback
READ ALOUD
Help students develop their oral fluency skills by assigning a passage for them to read aloud showing their ability to decode, retell the story and track their words correct per minute (WCPM) rate.
SPEAKING ASSIGNMENT
Extend student speaking skills using Speaking Assignments. Teacher instructions and students’ responses are supported in multi-modal writing and audio options. Feedback is provided using template or custom rubric criteria.
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