Welcome back!
We hope you feel refreshed after the summer break. Ready for a successful beginning of the school year? As you get back into the swing of things, here are many of the Digital Reader updates and resources that will help you ease back into the classroom.
Feature Updates
- 🚙 Reading Adventures (by Lexile® measure) - Now you can set your students off on Reading Adventures based on Lexile text measure or instructional level.
- 📚Add books to student bookshelves by Lexile Range in addition to Independent Reading Level and/or specific phonics focuses.
- New Bulk Editing - You can now update some settings for multiple students at once! Use the Bulk Edit Students button to assign students’ groups from the Students Tab, update students’ reading goals from the Goals Tab, and quickly set students’ Independent Track and Focus from the Independent Tracks Tab.
- New Groups Workflow - Making groups and adding students to them is now easier than ever with our new streamlined approach.
- Preview Quiz Content for Independent Tracks - From books on the Independent Tracks Bookshelves, click the Quiz icon on the left rail to view the quiz associated with the book.
- 🎒Updates to Student Experience - We hope these small changes to the the Student Dashboard and book reader make a using Digital Reader even better for everyone.
Content Updates
- 🔥 New Flameworks Comprehension Bookshelf and Digital Lesson Plans - Flameworks is a powerful comprehension program that pairs explicit instruction with high-quality complex texts to create an engaging, challenging, and inspiring learning experience.
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New Phonics Storybooks
- 🚀 Orbiting Set 1: Whether working on long vowel teams, digraphs and blends, or vowel-r combinations, readers can use these books to orbit back to a specific phonic element in order to gain mastery over it.
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New MyCodables Books & Digital Lesson Plans
- 🐼 Min the Panda Set 1: These decodable books provide the essential first steps in developing concepts of print, accuracy, and fluency. Engaging stories and delightful illustrations will have students picking them up again and again!
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New InfoCodables Books & Digital Lesson Plans - Decodable nonfiction packed with facts and photos, plus evidence-based digital lesson plans
- 🔍 InfoCodables Heliodor Set 1: Students can practice decoding words with silent -e and other spelling patterns while also discovering fun facts about mice, race cars, jerboas, turtles, how creatures smell, and pond life!
- 🔍 InfoCodables Ivory Set 1: Students can practice decoding words with trigraphs and other spelling patterns while also discovering fun facts about chicks, hiking a ridge, pumpkins, gold, Venus flytraps, and wind!
- 🔍 InfoCodables Jade Set 1: Students can practice decoding words with inflectional endings and other spelling patterns while also discovering fun facts about the space shuttle, Amazon rainforest, working dogs, dinosaurs, Jupiter, and mummies!
- ✨ Updated Decodable Books on UFLI Text Guide Bookshelf - Based on the UFLI Text Guide: Decodable Bundles, 2nd edition, updates include recently released decodable books, more unique titles per grade level, and more titles aligned to specific lesson numbers.
Recommended Resources for Returning Teachers
- Navigating Between Current and Future Classrooms
- Adding, Reviewing, and Editing Students
- Creating Student Groups
- How Does the Teacher Manage the Student Bookshelf?
- Teacher Recommended Actions
Questions? We’re here to help! Contact the Digital Reader Support Team at support@digitalreader.com for additional assistance.