LevelUp is designed to help budding learners grow into full-fledged readers. When frustrations or sources of reading difficulty are overcome, students’ natural love of learning is allowed to flourish.
When a student requires intervention, take advantage of the LevelUp features. Students reading with difficulty can benefit from the audio support in LevelUp. LevelUp books contain professionally recorded audio that models fluency, helping students to become smoother and more expressive readers. To hear book audio, click the play button in the bottom toolbar when a book is open. The book highlights each word so students can follow along as the narrator reads aloud.
For other learners, key reading skills may be reinforced with resources like activity sheets and graphic organizers or with the activities found in lesson plans. These instructional aids help students practice useful strategies and break down what they read.
Young readers may benefit from using the LevelUp interactive phonics ebooks, giving them valuable, individualized practice in decoding and other foundational skills. A full
scope and sequence helps ensure this phonics practice is systematic and effective.
Frequency of reading practice is crucial for growth. LevelUp affords teachers flexibility: they can guide students to texts by assigning books, or they can simply monitor progress as students engage on their own. LevelUp is designed to engage with a simple, friendly interface and content crafted for young readers. No matter what students’ interests are, they are likely to find something to love in the extensive offerings of authentic texts in LevelUp.
The motivation to read comes from more than just the high-interest offerings in LevelUp. An incentive system is built into the platform. For every assessment, book, and quiz completed, the site provides positive feedback while noting that the student has earned a number of credits. These credits are used in LevelUp Land, creating opportunities to purchase characters and objects and to explore fantastic worlds. The more students read, the more they get out of their creative time in the open-world gaming environment of LevelUp Land. Setting limits on game access during class hours allows students to exercise their imaginations without distracting from learning goals.