Sometimes it’s not the difficulty of the concept you’re teaching your students, but the challenge of keeping their interest.
We all remember being at school and being forced to learn something through what seemed like the most boring means possible. Of course now we realise that what we were being taught was far from boring – that our well-meaning and valiant teacher was trying to help us learn something truly important – but that doesn’t really matter much when it’s two o’clock on a Tuesday morning and you’re just waiting for the bell to ring. A student who can learn is a common thing, but a student who always wants to learn is a prize indeed. Sometimes it’s not what you’re teaching, but how.
CARS & STARS Online is a digital reading comprehension program where students move through five Pre-tests, five Benchmarks and five Post Tests at every level, building mastery of reading comprehension through multiple-choice questions targeting 12 core reading strategies. All of this is unique and unlike any other means of building your students’ reading comprehension. But what makes CARS & STARS Online truly special is that it’s designed to keep student interest through constantly varying reading passages.
Each CARS & STARS Online level features fifteen reading passages in all. No passage is repeated across the program, and every passage is different. Passages can be fiction or non-fiction, and cover a raft of topics across many different subject areas, all designed to pique student interest and keep it throughout the program.
Because reading is never confined to just dusty old books, CARS & STARS Online includes reading passages that reflect the diversity of texts found in the real world. The program features reading passages in the form of articles, letters, short stories, dialogues, encyclopedia entries, emails, chat logs and many more.
CARS & STARS Online even features specialised Australian content, with fiction and non-fiction passages written specifically for the Australian market. Passages have been written to be understandable to students in their specific year level, but never to rehash things they might already be overly familiar with, to stop them being bored reading over something they already know.
CARS & STARS Online is more than just a revolutionary new way to teach students how to become better readers, digitally. It’s a system designed with the reader in mind to ensure that students never get bored learning something they should find interesting ever again.
If you are interested in learning more about the CARS & STARS Online subscriptions and how they can help children to achieve better results, then sign up for a free trial to be an integral part of your child’s reading success.
