The Digital Experience

The Digital Experience is self-managing and self-paced with adaptive opportunities for acceleration and remediation. It is made up of 560 lessons, and accommodates students with Lexile scores from Beginning Reader to 1300L. Lessons are comprised of the following activities:
Daily Activities
-Fluency
-Vocabulary
-Reading Practice
-Word Study

Individualized Skill Building Activities
-Foundational Skills
-Comprehension
-Grammar, Usage, and Mechanics
-Literacy Analysis
-Text Elements
-And More

FLEX Literacy is unique in that it actually teaches skills within a digital setting, as opposed to simply providing supplemental practice. In each lesson, the student builds various skills which are instructed using the gradual release pedagogy of Model, Guide, Monitor. The Model activity seen here shows the student how to identify the theme, moral, or lesson in a narrative text.

FLEX Literacy is unique in that it actually teaches skills within a digital setting, as opposed to simply providing supplemental practice. In each lesson the student builds various skills which are instructed using the gradual release pedagogy of Model, Guide, Monitor. The Guide activity seen here helps the student identify and use adverbs.

FLEX Literacy is unique in that it actually teaches skills within a digital setting, as opposed to simply providing supplemental practice. In each lesson the student builds various skills which are instructed using the gradual release pedagogy of Model, Guide, Monitor. The Monitor activity seen here asks the student to practice making nouns and pronouns agree; a skill he/she learned in previous Model and Guide activities.

Lessons regularly assess students’ fluency by having them record themselves reading a passage aloud. Each passage appears four times, including a cold read, modeled read, silent read with comprehension questions, and hot read. Teachers can review and grade the recording in FLEXWorks. The Fluency activity seen here is a Cold read.

In each lesson, the student is introduced to three new vocabulary words in a Vocabulary Preview activity like the one seen here. Throughout the remainder of the lesson, the student encounters these words in a variety of activities. At the end of the lesson, the student will complete a Vocabulary Review that includes the three newly learned words along with three previously learned words.

In each lesson, the student encounters one or more word study activities which provide instruction and practice with prefixes, suffixes, and root words. Each series of activities introduces one or more prefixes, suffixes, or root words, and then provides question items in which the students identify a word that uses the correct prefix, suffix, or root. The Word Study activity seen here reviews the root words “photo” and “chron”.

In each lesson, the student encounters a number of assessments, including a Progress Monitoring Activity that updates his or her Lexile score, a Fluency Activity which allows students to record themselves reading a passage, and skill-based Mastery Checks which confirms skill proficiency. The adaptive nature of The Digital Experience automatically triggers acceleration and remediation of skills when necessary. The Reading Practice Master Check seen here assesses the student’s ability to analyze a selection and choose the appropriate words to complete the sentences.