Writing Modules

Engage students in a comprehensive and various digital writing experience

Essay Writing

Essay Writing is advisable for
students of all ages. The
teacher supports the pupil
writing process by engaging
them in deliberate planning
that includes a feedback cycle.
Students so apply their
improved/approved programme to
write their all-time essay draft.
Students apply feedback in the
recursive process to grow!

Book Report

Teachers can cull from a variety
of templates to support educatee
writing. Teachers tin can assign or
allow free selection books to be read.
Students appoint with the book by
taking notes and filling in the
supportive template. Grow student
writing by engaging in a
rubric-structured feedback cycle.

Writing
Skills Builder

Using the Writing Skills Architect,
parents can choose from
a variety of course-level appropriate
questions and create customized
linguistic communication exercise assignments
for their pupil.

Informal
Writing Bursts

Breezy Writing Bursts are no-risk
writing opportunities to foster a
love of language, creativity, fun,
and 21st century writing. A few
well-loved Flare-up formats include
Tweets, social media posts,
conversations, and hashtags.

Vocabulary Assignments

Grow student vocabulary and comprehension with Cloze and Spelling Bee embedded assessments

Vocabulary
Assessments

The teacher tin create personal
vocabulary assessments from
words their child spelled
incorrectly in Spelling Bee,
asked for the definition of while
reading, and/or missed while
answering a Cloze assessment.
The teacher tin too choose
what questions the kid is
asked well-nigh each word.
What's better than
differentiation? Customization.

Spelling Bee

Using a Lexile-aligned word listing from the most
recently read Ability Texts, students receive 5
Spelling Bee words to practice earlier an
cess. To celebrate pupil growth,
Badges are awarded for a strong Spelling Bee score.

Give-and-take Piece of work

Students receive a second chance on Cloze (fill-in-the-bare)
assessments they missed. Word Work serves equally a
personalized vocbulary acquisition tool.

fluency Assessments

Fluency Assessments grow educatee reading speed, accurateness and prosody with functioning feedback

Read Aloud

Help students develop their oral
fluency skills by assigning a
passage for them to read aloud
showing their ability to decode,
retell the story and track their
words correct per minute
(WCPM) rate.

Speaking Assignment

Extend student speaking skills using Speaking Assignments. Teacher
instructions and students' responses are supported in multi-modal
writing and audio options. Feedback is provided using template or
custom rubric criteria.

Back up GROWING READERS

Immediately Engage Students

Immediately Appoint Students

Simple intuitive design has classrooms reading within minutes.

Exponentially Grow Reading Time

Exponentially Grow Reading Time

Students love the LightSail feel and naturally spend more time reading.

Accelerate Literacy Development

Advance Literacy Development

Students reading 25 minutes a day on LightSail are seeing two+ years of Lexile growth in a single year.

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The LightSail Library

Unparalleled gratuitous content in

The LightSail Library

Excellent content shouldn't come at a high toll. That'due south why The LightSail Library is free for all of our schools. Through partnerships with leading content providers like News For Kids and Antares Reading™, LightSail gives students and educators access to thousands of outstanding fiction and nonfiction texts – at no additional cost and with unlimited copies.

The LightSail Library contains texts for students from grades K-12 written across a wide range of Lexile measures. These texts are embedded with assessments and cover a variety of subject matter. At present all students tin discover who they are equally readers through a broad and appealing library filled with keen texts.

Embedded assessments & motivation built right in!

Keep students learning with

Embedded assessments & motivation built correct in!

Progress monitoring is embedded into daily practice in a natural manner. Students answer multiple-option, written-response, and Cloze assessments throughout each text. As student ability grows, LightSail tracks achievement and updates the selections in each reader's library – that way, students are always reading but right texts.

LightSail's educators have besides built several cardinal motivators into the app! Students tin runway their progress against individual reading goals, check their Lexile scores and the number of texts they've completed and prove off their accomplishment badges – all via their personal data dashboard. Readers tin can also conversation with peers and teachers during the reading experience using LightSail's in-app social network.

Personalized Libraries

Engage students with

Personalized Libraries

Starting with an initial adaptive assessment, LightSail automatically creates personalized libraries for each of your students based on their reading abilities. These libraries adapt equally students grow, ensuring they are already reading "but right" books.

In guild to get your digital plan off the ground, LightSail comes pre-loaded with over six,000 assessed texts for free. As your school's content needs grow, and you are prepare to aggrandize your digital library, LightSail provides access to over 4,500+ premium books at a wide variety of interests and reading levels.

Growth data for students and educators

Focus on your students' full potential using customized

Growth data for students and educators

LightSail was designed to tackle the logistical burden of differentiation in the ELA classroom, so teachers can focus on what actually matters – targeted educational activity.

Educators go real-time access to meaningful data about pupil reading behavior, comprehension and growth. With access to student annotations and dashboards that show both individual as well equally class performance, teachers are able to fine-melody teaching in ways that were rarely possible before.

Human Support

For every step of the way

Man Support

Neat support is a key factor in the success of any technology you bring into your classroom. Your digital transition takes yous into new territory and we desire to make sure y'all have everything y'all need.

LightSail is invested in your success, so we've got you covered every footstep of the style. Even prior to launch, your LightSail support team is there to become you off to a smashing start and we keep to be bachelor to keep you going all year long.

LightSail Reverses Summer Slide

LightSail Reverses Summer Slide

LightSail's SummerSail Reading Program provided at-risk middle school students with access to LightSail for 7 weeks in an endeavour to gainsay "summertime slide" — a miracle past which economically disadvantaged children rarely read during the summer equally compared to their more than advantaged peers.

This research study evaluates the programme's affect and outcomes for 280 students from in a large urban school district.