Headsprout is an innovative online reading program that adapts instruction to every student

The Headsprout Reading Program Provides the Path to Successful Reading

Headsprout is a research-proven kids' reading program that takes students on a digital journey to become better readers. With a cast of captivating characters to help them along the way, students complete interactive online episodes that continually teach the critical foundational reading skills and comprehension strategies students need to excel in the classroom and beyond. The program's instruction is designed to adapt to each student's specific needs and learning pace, and has received favorable independent reviews for its effectiveness in a variety of classroom environments.

• Provide individualized learning with online and mobile instruction presented in two sequential instruction packages customized to meet each student's specific needs.

• Continually develop students' reading skills with built-in instructional sequencing.

• Ensure retention of reading skills with embedded smart error correction.

• Improve students' test scores and literacy rates.

ADAPTIVE INSTRUCTION THAT DEVELOPS STUDENTS' READING SKILLS

Headsprout is an award-winning reading program known for its effectiveness and engaging eLearning environment. The product's flexible instruction allows students to begin the program at the developmentally appropriate level and then further hone their reading skills through an adaptive instructional path.

Early Reading Development

Provides students just beginning to read with engaging instruction that teaches them critical fundamentals, including phonological awareness and phonics, fluency, and more.

Reading Comprehension Instruction

Teaches more established readers important skills and strategies necessary for comprehending texts and demonstrating comprehension on standardized tests.



Adaptive Educational Sequencing

Automatically adapts instruction in context to deliver the appropriate reading instruction each student needs to improve his or her reading skills.

Automated Reporting

Informs future instruction with digitally delivered reports and insights that track individual student and class-wide progress through the program.

Vocabulary Building Engine

Teaches students up to 4 new vocabulary words in less than 5 minutes of online instruction.

Smart Error Correction

Multiple levels of embedded error correction ensure complete retention before students move on and encourage them to learn from past mistakes.

Benchmark Assessments

Confirm students are able to transfer acquired reading skills in a classroom environment with a collection of triggered, teacher-administered assessments.

Kid-Friendly eLearning Environment

Provides easy access to differentiated reading instruction through the Kids A-Z eLearning portal and Kids A-Z mobile app.

Headsprout Foundational Reading Instruction for Early Readers

Headsprout's scientifically validated early reading instruction helps students learn critical skills that align with National Reading Panel objectives of phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and reading comprehension. Students learn through direct experience throughout the sequence that letters make sounds, sounds combine to make words, words combine to make sentences, and sentences combine to make stories.

Proven Results

The Headsprout early reading sequence has proven to take nonreaders or beginning readers up to mid-second-grade reading skills in less than 30 hours of individualized instruction. Throughout the early reading sequence, students learn up to 5,000 new vocabulary words. The nationally recognized Florida Center for Reading Research (FCRR) stated that Headsprout was built on scientific foundations and provides abundant instruction for early readers.



Uses

Headsprout's early reading sequence can be used in a variety of ways to help students acquire the reading fundamentals necessary to become successful readers.

PREVENT Helps students develop important reading skills in the early grades

ENSURE Develops the core skills students need to move on to more complex reading skills

INTERVENE Shown to be an effective tool for helping students who have fallen behind

Headsprout Adaptive Reading Comprehension Instruction

Headsprout's research-proven reading comprehension instruction develops students' comprehension and close reading skills. Throughout the sequence, students gradually learn key comprehension skills such as finding facts, making inferences, identifying main ideas, and learning vocabulary in context.

Proven Results

Headsprout's reading comprehension sequence has proven to help students comprehend and think critically about text, and succeed on end-of-year standardized assessments. In 1 classroom study, students using the reading comprehension sequence were found to make more than 7 times the reading gains compared to their peers not using the program.



Uses

Headsprout's reading comprehension sequence can be used in a variety of ways to help students develop the comprehension and critical thinking skills they need to succeed in most areas of study and on standardized assessments.

ENSURE Helps students learn important comprehension strategies necessary for long-term success

PREVENT Advances students' comprehension and critical thinking skills as students move through the program

INTERVENE Quickly teaches comprehension skills to students who have fallen behind their peers