CARS & STARS Online is a unique and innovative new way of approaching the teaching of reading comprehension. Built around the repeated application of research-proven reading strategies across every level, the program aims to turn every student into a confident and able reader, with advanced levels of reading comprehension they can apply to content across the curriculum as well as in daily life.
For teachers running whole classes or even larger groups, the benefits of CARS & STARS Online begin with automatic marking and proceed through to the detailed, automatic reports that accrue as students and groups progress through the program, which offer an unprecedented overview of progress and areas of concern.
But CARS & STARS is not just about approaching instruction at the wider level – like all teaching, it all boils down to catering for individual students in the best way possible. While these features also apply just as helpfully to single students as they do to larger groups, there are several features that can help deliver on outcomes for individual students.
The new Question Timer feature is designed to slow down students who might try and click through activities without reading them so as to finish more quickly. When a School Administrator enables this feature, students will receive a notification to “slow down” when they try and click through to the next question too hastily, ensuring that they spend an appropriate amount of time reading the question and considering their answer choice. Individual reports now also give information on the time spent on each task, enabling teachers to access an even more detailed view of individual student progress than they have been able to before. Teachers can therefore just as easily focus on students who might be having trouble and so undertaking tasks too slowly.
New additions to individual students’ profiles such as the specific planning sheets also allow teachers to directly plan instruction around one student, while incorporating them as part of a wider group, class or school. Targeting instruction in this way, within the wider program, allows differentiation on a scale previously unavailable in most classroom settings – let alone via remote learning, which CARS & STARS Online makes accessible as standard.
With CARS & STARS Online, every learner is important and reachable, just as no group is too big to benefit from its comprehensive, data-driven approach.
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.
