Since Ooka Island was developed for children ranging in age from 3-7, new adventurers come to the Island with varied levels of exposure to and familiarity with language and reading.  While Ooka Island is a complete literacy curriculum, its READirect technology–which adapts the game play to ensure an individual child attains mastery in each skill–allows it also to function as a powerful early intervention for students who might have missed forming the fundamental building blocks of reading in other academic sets. In addition to the ongoing differentiated instruction, Ooka Island’s in-game assessment ensures children begin reading at the right level within the sequenced and leveled series of 85 books. Still curious about ways Ooka Island can work for at risk students?  Read on!

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