By combining technology-based instruction with face-to-face classroom activities, Ooka Island offers a blended learning solution for early literacy in Pre-K to 2nd Grade classrooms. Blended learning on Ooka Island means teachers always have actionable data to make the most of their time with individual students.
The Ooka Island Adventure can be used as a stand alone program or in a blended learning environment with complementary and enhancing print components such as books, guides, lesson plans, sentence strips, consumable workbooks, and story game cards. Teachers can divide students into three small groups and rotate the groups through three literacy stations. Groups spend 20 minutes at each station to complete a full hour of engaging, early literacy activity. Learn more details on each literacy station below.
The Ooka Island Adventure is an adaptive learn-to-read technology for Pre-K to 2nd Grade. The combination of the innovative features below make it a powerful tool to accelerate the reading development of emergent readers as they move along the path to fluent reading.
- Created by the founder of the US DOE’s top-rated program for reading comprehension, the OOKA Method revolves around the five following fundamentals of reading: phonemic awareness, phonetics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension.
- An adaptive learning algorithm called READirect that ensures skill mastery in reading for each student.
- Comprehensive assessment and real-time progress reports provided online in the Ooka Lighthouse and organized into actionable data for multiple end-users.
- An assessment tool called the Ooka Compass for students who already have a reading base to start them at the most appropriate level on the Book Path
- A built-in E-Reader called the Popcorn Library packed with 85 carefully leveled and sequenced Ooka Island e-Books.
- In a complete and rigorous program for beginning readers, approximately 80 hours of proven reading curriculum is presented to our youngest learners in a virtual world format with a heroic storyline and mission.
2. Workbooks
Ooka Island Workbooks complement the e-Books in The Ooka Island Adventure and/or the same printed books from the Ooka Island Books Series. Ooka Island Workbooks provide hands-on activities that foster word identification, sentence construction, sequencing, and story comprehension. Ooka Island workbooks are available for free and are easily downloaded from the website! Go to Downloadable Workbooks.
3. Leveled Books and Teacher Guides
*Includes 95 original Ooka Island Books, lesson plans for the first 35 books, sentence strips, and story game cards.
The Ooka Island Print Program consists of 95 books organized into six original series
that are leveled from Pre-K to 2nd Grade. The first 85 books are also in the The Ooka Island Adventure in an e-Book format, while the last 10 books at the higher fluency level are only available in print. Each book features natural language, a storyline to build comprehension, lovable recurring characters, strong picture support, and settings that help children relate to familiar experiences. Learn more about the Book Methodology and why Ooka Island Books are effective to teach early literacy.
Instructional guides for the Emergent series assist in engaging the child in text comprehension before, during, and after reading. The guides also include learning activities that are foundational to building reading success.
Enhancing story game cards for the Emergent series provide an entertaining way to work on developing essential sight vocabulary.
A variety of free, downloadable Motivational Tools are also available for educators.
To discover where a child should begin with the Ooka Island Book Series, determine the reading level.
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