MindPlay Virtual Reading Coach

MindPlay Virtual Reading Coach

MindPlay Virtual Reading Coach improves students’ reading performance by assessing reading abilities, developing an individual student syllabus, differentiating instruction, and providing mastery-based activities to address reading gaps.

For students, MVRC provides

  • interactive lessons with media-rich content.
  • direct, explicit, and systematic instruction.
  • scaffolded instruction and remediation.
  • virtual reading specialists and speech pathologists.
  • self-paced and mastery-based instruction.
  • immediate and specific feedback.

For teachers and administrators, MVRC provides

  • real-time access to reports and student data.
  • instructional delivery that is automated and adaptive.

MVRC provides differentiated instruction based on each student’s initial diagnostic testing and can be used by all students. The diagnostic tests, progress monitoring results, and student performance determine lesson assignment. Students are assigned targeted instruction based on needs.

MVRC accommodates students with diverse reading skills and instructional needs. It is effective with students of all ages and in disparate categories, including: adult education, GED preparation, English Language Learners, bilingual education, and special education. MVRC can serve as a core reading program (Tier 1), as well as intervention for students in Tier 2 and Tier 3.

Program Design and Methods

MVRC teaches students to comprehend grade level text and to read that text fluently. An MVRC student first becomes proficient in phonological awareness and phonics skills if needed. When a student demonstrates accurate decoding skills, he also receives vocabulary and grammar and meaning instruction. Finally,MVRC delivers explicitly fluency training to improve silent reading rate. Improvement in comprehension and fluency are simultaneous goals. The interactive activities help students stay focused and accelerate their progress.

MVRC uses methods and strategies of successful reading teachers and speech pathologists. Each student works toward 100% mastery at his or her own pace.

RAPS 360 (Reading Analysis and Prescription System) is a diagnostic assessment system with embedded progress monitoring. Diagnostic assessments provide teachers with information about a student's prior knowledge or gaps in their reading skills. It helps teachers quickly diagnose why a student is not reading or comprehending grade level passages.

Periodic formative assessments tell teachers how well students are meeting learning goals. They enable teachers to assign appropriate interventions to fill in skill gaps.

FLRT allows students to practice fluent reading and reading comprehension.  Fluency is the ability to read text quickly, accurately and with good comprehension.  This system trains students to process words from left to right efficiently. Students quickly move from word recognition to reading comprehension to reading fluency.