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Each ELL student will be given a choice between one of the five stories I am using to assess our English speakers, or one of five traditional  Spanish children’s stories. If an ELL student chooses an story in English, I will allow them a bit more time on their answers. If they choose a story in Spanish, the guidelines will be the same as they are for the English speakers.

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Our teacher will assess each student individually. Students will choose one story from the several stories I have read and discussed with them this school year. After reading I will ask 5 questions pertaining to the story. I will consider 4 correct answers as a success.

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Our class activity will consist of two groups of 8 students per group. I will read a story of my choosing, something we are well familiar with. After reading the story, one of the groups will come up with 4 questions. The other group will attempt to answer those questions. We will then switch roles and the questioners will become the questioned.

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* Covers everything from letters and sounds to reading full sentences.

* Designed in collaboration with leading academics.

* Complements all synthetic phonics programmes used in schools.

* Computer version is 100% free.

The kids absolutely love this game - and they're learning!

John Hole, Phase 1 Leader, Wray Common Primary School

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The game has been funded by the Usborne Foundation, a charity set up to support initiatives to develop early literacy.

Our mission is to help as many children learn to read as possible. The computer version is 100% free and we put profits from the app back into the Usborne Foundation, to continue to create new and exciting ways for children to learn.

The charity was founded by Peter Usborne MBE and his children, Nicola and Martin, one of the world's leading children's book publishing companies and Children's Publisher of the Year 2012. He was previously one of the founders of the magazine Private Eye.

The game is for children in the first stages of learning to read, or for older children who need a bit more practice. Read more details about the three games.

The game takes children on a magical journey, meeting colourful characters along the way and collecting fantastic rewards. When children are engaged, they're motivated to learn.

As they progress, they rehearse a range of essential reading skills; matching letters to sounds, blending, segmenting, tricky words and reading full sentences.

Find out exactly what the game covers.

The game runs on any normal laptop or desktop computer (including Apple Macs) and the app works on iPhone, iPad, Android and Kindle tablets.

Peter Usborne is the founder and Managing Director of Usborne Publishing, one of the world's leading children's book publishing companies and Children's Publisher of the Year 2012. He was previously one of the founders of the magazine Private Eye, and was recently awarded an MBE for services to publishing.

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Create a monster and take it on an adventure through a magical world. Travel to exciting places, meet fun characters, play games and win prizes as your monster learns the first steps of reading.

Minigames help children to develop speed and accuracy of letter recognition.

Lots of blending, segmenting and tricky words.

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I was stunned to see how much they enjoyed this. It blew me away.

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Complements existing learning

For young children in the first stages of learning to read; both those who are on track and those who need extra support and motivation.

The series complements Phases 2-5 of Letters and Sounds and other major systematic synthetic phonics programmes.

Keeps children focused on rehearsing and consolidating what they learn in school.

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The series takes children on a journey through the graphemes; rehearsing recognition, blending and segmenting with each one.

Children rehearse tricky words, plus reading whole sentences and captions.

Can be played independently by children either in school or at home.

Each child has their own login so the game can track their progress over time.

This is a fun and engaging way to help your child learn to read. My son warmed to the game quickly and didn't want to stop playing it!

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Our assessments both formal and those given as we teach and observe the students, will ultimately determine the effectiveness of our planned instruction. The modeling we have chosen, the guidance we give our students will all have been decided during our planning stage. If students are able to demonstrate that they have understood, and have achieved a level of mastery that meet the standards then our planning has been a success. However, it is more likely than not that there will be some students who will need to go over parts of our instruction. Some students may need to review the entire lesson again. At this point we will need to understand where our instruction has not satisfied our objectives. We then should re-examine all of our strategies in order to reevaluate the modeling we chose to use, guidance we gave, the amount of time we allotted to the various sections or our plan. How much time we gave our students to complete tasks. Equally as important as all of these factors is also the issue of UDL, and how we can best serve each individual student.