Reading Playgrounds
When the Spanish Support feature is available, how will this support work?
Teachers will need to activate it either upon creating their class or by navigating to the Manage Class page and editing the student. It will allow students to choose whether to hear directions in English or Spanish. Remember, if a student is in multiple classes – once one teacher turns it on, the support will be turned on for all...not just that one teacher’s class!
What are the teaching games in the vocabulary playgrounds?
Deep Teach, Teach Light, Click It, Teach Related
What makes a word be considered a “learned” word vs. “mastered”?
A learned word is a word answered correctly 3 times. A mastered word means the word was answered correctly 5 times.
What report would you go to if you were looking for Reading Playground formative assessment scores?
Activity Report
Where would you go, outside of News & Resources in the Teacher Dashboard, to find helpful Reading Playground materials?
Navigate to the Teacher Presentation Tool --> Supply Room --> Reading Playground tab
Describe the purpose of the Live Activity and how teachers & students access it.
Replaces physical phonics kits, provides report of the activity for the teacher to view later, immediate feedback; teachers deploy this from their teacher dashboard by clicking the “live activity button” in the left widget of the main dashboard page; students access by logging into their student dashboard
How can teachers unlock units in the vocabulary playgrounds?
Vocabulary units are automatically unlocked when a reading unit is unlocked; OR they can navigate to the vocabulary dashboard and unlock the unit (reading units will also unlock)
What are the names of the three games?
Basecamp, Ascent, and Expedition
Name the Reading Playground report that allows you to see how students are performing with a specific subskill.
Skills Analysis
Where would you go, outside of News & Resources in the Teacher Dashboard, to find helpful Vocabulary Playground materials?
Navigate to the Teacher Presentation Tool --> Supply Room --> Vocabulary tab --> Vocabulary Playground tab
How are assessments, diagnostics, and progress monitoring check-ins given to students? Make sure to include oral decoding information in your description.
Teachers navigate to the My Assignments page and create an assignment for the desired task. If the activity has oral decoding with it, teachers need to choose whether students should complete it with voice recording or 1:1 with them. Once an assignment is created, it will be released to students at a specific date and time. Students will be prompted on their dashboard with a pop-up. If it is mandatory, they cannot work on anything, other than a Live Activity, until it is done.
The Vocabulary Playground mimics the act of __________
Wide reading
Describe the purpose of the Word Extractor and how it works.
The Word Extractor allows teachers to either paste some text or upload a screenshot of text their students will be working with. The system runs the text through the database to pull great vocabulary words out for the students to learn.
Next year, where will teachers go to find this year’s (the 2023-2024 school year) data?
Student Activity --> Click the year drop-down at the top of the report section (right side)
Describe the process for finding all resources associated with assessments in News & Resources.
Navigate to News & Resources. Use the filter drop-down to select the “assessment” tag. Click from tab to tab to see the available posts associated with that tag. You can also use the search bar and type in the name of a specific assessment, or just type the word “assessment” to pull up associated resources.
How is the student Playgrounds dashboard organized?
If students have multiple programs assigned to them, upon logging in they will need to select the program they wish to work in. After that the program’s unit navigation screen will load. Each icon represents one unit and corresponds to the unit in the Teacher Guide. Clicking into a unit then loads the game navigation screen with games 1-3 being highlighted because they are formative assessment games. Ebooks are available by clicking the icon in the lower right corner of the unit navigation screen and LTFP is available in same location but on the game navigation screen.
The words in each unit of the Vocabulary Playground are taught in which unit?
The following unit
How does the time tracking work?
Students are only accumulating time when they are participating in meaningful engagement, not non-educational activities such as logging in, games loading, or having the webpage open but navigating to another tab to surf the web. Time is tracked only while actively participating in Basecamp and Ascent games. The timer begins when they start the first game and stops when they navigate back to their dashboard.
At the moment InferCabulary only has one report. Describe the information that can be found in it.
Number of Basecamp and Ascent games that were attempted over the number completed, number of words a student encountered for the chosen time frame, number of learned words for the chosen time frame, active time, and accuracy percentage.
Who has access to the “Printables” section of News & Resources?
Any teacher who has a Reading Playground license for the associated program. Co-teachers who are unlicensed will not have access to these resources.
How do students log in?
Students can log in using a three word password, OR by typing in their school code and then using their secret code (picture password)
Which vocab game requires students to select the sentence where the vocabulary word is being used correctly?
Vocab Scenario
What is the purpose of starring words and where do you star words at?
Starring words ensures that those words are prioritized during independent climbing mountain game play. The filter bar allows teachers to find words based on various criteria such as book references, grade level, simple meanings, or category labels. This feature is available on the All Words page.
On the Skills Analysis report, how are the percentages calculated?
Scores are calculated based off the most recent 20 attempts in games associated with those skills or subskills. This could be based off 1 game if a student is really struggling, or several games if a student is proficient.
Which section of News & Resources houses a post discussing the role and access level of co-teachers?
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