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KEY COMPONENTS OF THE LIGHTSAIL LITERACY SOLUTION
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ADAPTIVE LEXILE®-CENTRIC E-READER
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WRITING SOLUTIONS
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ORAL READING FLUENCY - RUNNING RECORD
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PERSONALIZED READER - SPED TOOLS
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10,000 HIGH-INTEREST BOOKS - INCLUDED
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TEAM READING & LITERACY CIRCLES
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CONTENT BUILDER & SHARED LIBRARIES
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VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR TOOLS
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READING TOURNAMENTS
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ANALYTICS 150+ DATA POINTS
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BLENDED LEARNING TOOLS
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ADAPTIVE LEXILE®-CENTRIC E-READER & E-BOOK LIBRARY
- Students take a benchmark assessment before starting to read on the platform
- The system automatically assesses comprehension & Lexile® growth with embedded vocabulary cloze items
- Every 15 days, LightSail assesses each student's reading level, expressed as a Lexile® value
- Based on the student’s Lexile® level, the system automatically personalizes the recommended books in their library
- Student literacy-skills growth — and love for reading — is fostered as they alternate between Power Texts within their Zone of Proximal Development and free reading time
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WRITING SOLUTIONS
- Students engage in comprehensive digital writing experiences
- Authentic Writing — 21st-century writing skills development with creative options for real-world content creation
- Student-Authored Books — Students publish fiction & non-fiction books with multimedia options, including embedded images & YouTube videos
- Teacher-Authored Books — Teachers publish books & resources to support classroom learning for specific student needs, also with multimedia options to enhance learning
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ORAL READING FLUENCY - RUNNING RECORD
- Create class & personalized read-aloud, retelling, listening, and writing assignments with LightSail’s Fluency Builder
- Generate continuous records and effortlessly identify omission, insertion, mispronunciation, substitution, repetition, or self-correction errors
- The LightSail system auto-calculates accurate WCPM (words correct per minute)
- Results are stored online for effortless tracking and monitoring of progress over time
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PERSONALIZED READER - SPED TOOLS
- Personalized Reader - supporting individualized accommodations for struggling readers, especially those challenged with dyslexia, ADHD, & visual impairments
- 60 different tools to customize the Personalized Reader and adapt it to each student's needs with options to save in individual templates
- Teachers can begin by selecting specialized templates developed by expert SPED educators for specific learning needs & then adjust to support individual needs
- WCAG 2.1 Accessibility features compatible with JAWS® & NVDA accessible reader
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10,000 HIGH-INTEREST BOOKS - INCLUDED
- 10,000 Lexiled, authentic, diverse, high-interest fiction and nonfiction English and Spanish titles included with LS-10,000 student license
- More than 40,000 US-educator developed, standards-aligned question items embedded within books
- Included e-book library for every student valued at $110,000
- 4,500 titles from the award-winning Rosen Publishing Group
- 1,600 Antares Reading™ leveled readers
- 3,500 Curated LightSail & Public Domain Classics
- 13,000 Audiobook Classics with human-narration curated from public domain titles
- Alternate content and license options available to meet school and district budget needs
- Integrated e-Bookstore - purchase or rent from thousands of additional award-winning popular and contemporary fiction & nonfiction titles from the world's leading publishers.
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TEAM READING & LITERACY CIRCLES
- Teacher-led & Student-led group reading supporting individual accommodations with LightSail Adaptive eReader & Personalized Reader mode
- Each student is empowered to discreetly see & experience the text with their individual accommodations while maintaining the synchronicity of the read-aloud for the whole group.
- Built-in rubric, badge-awards, & chat enables teachers to seamlessly grade, award, and communicate with students individually during the read-aloud
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CONTENT BUILDER & SHARED LIBRARIES
- Import cross-curricular content from anywhere in seconds
- Import from websites, ePUB, PDFs, and Docs
- Import in any language
- Create question & assessments instantly
- Align questions to reading skills standards
- Add comprehension cloze questions to your imported text
- Share with your district library and colleagues
- Create units and share them with your students and colleagues
- Grade assignments using rubrics
- Create site-level units that can be shared with peers and students
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VOCABULARY & GRAMMAR TOOLS
- Word Journeys Module for personalized vocabulary & grammar study within the books that students read
- Exposing students to and helping them practice targeted vocabulary, parts of speech, syllabification, punctuation, & grammar contextually in the books they read on LightSail
- Flexible options to initiate and drive journeys (activities) and assessments by teacher and / or the LightSail algorithm
- Build confidence for all learners, especially struggling and emergent readers & ELL.
- Encourage mastery of concepts with remediation, including digital and printable worksheets individualized per student progress
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READING TOURNAMENTS
- Versatile and easy-to-set-up reading & grammar tournaments for classrooms, schools, or districts
- Bracketed or leaderboard tournaments drive reading & grammar engagement with constructive, healthy competition.
- Multiple metrics allow for equity and inclusion for all students, especially when measured by cloze score
- Embedded tools for engaging community sponsors and families
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MONITORING & ANALYTICS 150+ DATA POINTS IN REAL-TIME
- LightSail is dedicated to transparency of data and to demonstrating the performance improvement in student literacy outcomes and ROI for districts, schools, donor organizations, and literacy-focused initiatives
- Robust reporting functionality provides extensive data and insights of student progress & student and educator engagement at the individual, class, grade, school, district, state, and regional / country level
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BLENDED LEARNING TOOLS
- Enable educator - parent/guardian - learner collaboration
- Learners transition seamlessly between @home & @school work, with hybrid capabilities as needed
- Versatile teacher-controlled chat and communication functionality
- Supplementary and personalized printable worksheets for grammar & vocabulary remediation and enrichment