Ooka Island & Marina Orth Foundation
assist English Language Learners
in Colombia, South America
The Ooka Island Reading Team welcomed Ian Vickery to its headquarters this week for training in the Ooka Island Learning System. Ian will be traveling to Colombia, South America to teach the English language with the Marina Orth Foundation. The Ooka Island technology is ideal for teaching the English language as it jumps right into teaching the 44 sounds of the English language in a guided, yet compelling methodology. You can learn more here about why Ooka Island is effective for English Language Learners (ELL). Ian’s training...
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Early Literacy Partnership
Have you heard the news? Wonderful things are happening at John J Sark Memorial School! Students at John J Sark Memorial School are loving Ooka Island! Join the team at Ooka Island as they visit John J Sark to check in with Kindergarten teacher, Wendy Walker and Principal, Nora McCarthy-Joyce. Watch the video below to meet the students at John J Sark and hear about their favourite parts of the Ooka Island Adventure! What is this school doing differently? The benefits of learning to read at an early age will...
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New Players on Ooka Island!
Let the Adventure Begin … The story of the Ooka Elves and the Fliggs Before a child begins the Ooka Island Adventure, watch this video together to see what’s in store! It’s a BIG adventure for little learners! Ooka Island is a magical Island where flying pigs called Fliggs live. The fliggs know how to read because their leader, Fliggnorance, taught them. Also living on the Island are kind hearted Ooka Elves. The Ooka Elves love to play and share and they asked Fliggnorance to teach them how to read...
read moreCreating a 14 Day FREE Trial
for the Ooka Island Reading Adventure!
If you would like a free 14 day free trial of the new Ooka Island Adventure, just watch this video on how to get started! Watch the video tutorial below, or scroll down to read the script if you prefer! First go to the main page of the Ooka Island website and click on the Free Trial button. Next click on ‘start a 14 day free trial’. Enter your desired username, create and confirm a password, type in your email address and check the box to sign up. This username and password will be the administrative login. You can...
read moreVideo Tutorial #9
Secrets to Free Play!
Welcome to our ninth video tutorial! My name is Jim Barber and I am the CEO and creative director at Ooka Island Reading Programs. Today I would like to share a quick video with you on the Free Play Experience. This video tutorial will focus on all the extra features available to little learners during the eight minutes of Free Play experience. Watch the video tutorial below, or scroll down to read the video transcript if you prefer! Video Transcript: The Ooka Island Adventure has a unique game flow cycle. The young learner...
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Featured in KIWI Magazine
February/March 2012 Issue
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A New Activity Page for Kids!
It is activity page time! “Piggyback Ride” is part of the Kayla, Jayden, and Boo Series. In this story, Boo tells Jayden how sometimes its hard for his little legs to keep up. Find out what Jayden does to help out Boo! Download and print the activity page for kids! This Activity Page is From ‘Snow Boo’ an Emergent Level I...
read more“Gaming with Purpose”
How Adaptive Learning Technology Can Ensure Skill Mastery for Beginning Readers
Good day! I had the recent privilege of discussing the topic “Gaming with Purpose” with Sandy Fivecoat from WeAreTeachers, in an interview on adaptive learning that you can watch below! Plenty of visuals accompany the presentation and we discuss how young learners playing on adaptive, smart technology can ensure skill mastery and will increase literacy skills in a compelling and effective way. Read on! Jim Barber,...
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