Let's tackle back-to-school setup together!
As a returning Digital Reader Administrator (school or district), you want to ensure your back-to-school season runs smoothly. See what we've been up to over the last year, then review a curated collection of our Digital Reader support articles to refresh your memory before setting up.
(Note: If you're new to the Digital Reader, please check out our Admin Guide and FAQ section first.)
Digital Reader Updates
- 🚙 Reading Adventures (by Lexile® measure) - Now you can set your students off on Reading Adventures based on Lexile text measure or instructional level. You can also add books to student bookshelves by Lexile Range.
- 🎒 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.
- 🔥 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 Decodable Books - Digital Reader now provides access to more than 1,500 digital books, with more on the way!
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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!
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New Phonics Storybooks
- ✨ 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 Administrators
Terms
- Understanding Academic Terms
- Setting Up Your New Academic Term
- Navigating Between Past, Current, and Future Academic Terms
User Set Up
- Reviewing, Editing, and Adding Schools
- Reviewing, Updating, and Adding Classrooms
- Reviewing, Editing, and Adding Teachers
- How to Add or Import Students
- How to Manage Interventionist Access to Students
Licenses
- License FAQs
- User Roles and Features
- How Do I Decide if an Admin Also Needs a License? How Do I Adjust That?
- Rostering and Authentication (Sign In) Options
Questions? We’re here to help! Contact the Digital Reader Support Team at support@digitalreader.com for additional assistance.