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What is the role of background knowledge, and how can we support students who lack background knowledge in the topic?

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What learning objectives are associated to reading success?

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What learning objectives are associated to reading success?

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Can we consult with scholars in our partner university to explore equity issues?

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How will we help students fill in decoding gaps while also allowing them to access grade-appropriate text?

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Can we get a large and diverse set of students to inform this question, rather than just local Boston kids?

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Look at research critically - did it only focus on a small, homogenous group of participants?

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How do we know what engages students?

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- from UX team, from iReady data
- interviews with teachers & students

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Does reading "success" look different for different kids? Based on how they and their skills relate to the passage? (e.g. reading success of a passage that is 4 grade levels above your placement might look different than success with on-level.)

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Can students with many different abilities be able to complete the task at hand? Visual auditory, cognitive, motor, etc?

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Should the question really be: What factors allow students to successfully read a text?

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Each factor needs to be associated with specifications/expectations.

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What is the role of design/functionality?

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What basic reading abilities/skills will we assume (or make sure) students have?

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What basic reading abilities/skills will we assume (or make sure) students have?

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The texts have to be engaging to the students. Also it would be a plus if students can relate to or somehow see themselves in the texts they read.

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What can we learn from non-educational technologies? E.g. fitness/wellness apps that have proven to be motivational and engaging

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Do images engage but also importantly support and amplify the text

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Do the "successful factors" apply to non-fiction and fiction the same way?

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Do the "successful factors" apply to non-fiction and fiction the same way?

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How do we define success? What are our goals?

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What foundational skills might be lacking?

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What foundational skills might be lacking?

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- "greatest hits" of phonics/foundational/decoding skills that students may be lacking

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To remind oneself that this is student on machine solo (if iReady DSN), and consider what support is needed in sans teacher envio

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What prevents reading success?

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How much authentic and organic interaction can we provide students with, as opposed to perceived choice

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Do I WANT to interact with this thing? And what makes me come back for more?

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What can we do to help readers create the space to focus on the meanings of passages and words.

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How do we teach reading skills without inducing learning-related shame for OSR?

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Make sure our own research includes kids of all different backgrounds and ability levels.

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What worked best in the past?

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How can we help support students who already have given up?

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Is there any way we can build in a feature that will allow students to interact with each other about a specific passage/topic/unit?

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Investigate any critical responses to the theories we're basing our decisions off of - has anyone criticized it as being inequitable? If not, can we analyze it to be sure?

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Can there be a rubric to help us identify the success factors?

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What "factors" or elements of "success" can be shown digitally, vs what just happens in the user's head and has to be assumed?

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How to do we reconcile the need to give students passages that aren't too hard (to decode) with the research-backed principal that students will excel if you expect them to reach higher?

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Do the visual and interactive design allow a student to understand the task at hand?

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poll middle school students for topics of interest

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User testing!

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Have a pool of example texts and topics that we can use to help assess engagement and interest

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Making sure there are many opportunities to "show what you know" or learn in a meaningful way.

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We can present it to various stakeholders and get feedback

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We can present it to various stakeholders and get feedback

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Is whatever we build feasible with the technology we have at hand?

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research schools, districts that have seen great improvement in overall reading scores in middle school. Examine the formula for success, what approaches worked

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let the student choose a text they are interested in

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Analyze our student testing results to weed out inequities.

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Analyze our student testing results to weed out inequities.

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What new guidelines will we need to develop for writing passages?

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Do the passages reflect the students that read it?

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Can we learn anything from our survey question that could help us create engaging passages?