It’s so obvious that it almost goes without saying, but: Memory is key to learning. How much we “learn” is often dictated by how much we can remember, and how much information we retain and are able to meaningfully use in our real lives is entirely down to our ability to remember it.
How, then, do we get ourselves to remember more? One way is through repetition. By repeatedly exposing ourselves to the same information we – hopefully – make it “stick” in our heads so that we can retain it, use it meaningfully and (again, hopefully) deal it out freely to dazzle examiners or future recruiters.
Our brains tend to remember information best that forms a meaningful pattern. It’s because of this tendency that learning strategies can so successfully help us to organise information into patterns and encourage purposeful, directed, meaningful and lasting learning.
CARS & STARS Online is a digital reading program designed to turn every student into a proficient and capable reader, with advanced levels of reading comprehension. The core reading strategies that underpin the entirety of CARS & STARS Online form an underlying instructional framework that recurs throughout every level and provides consistency of understanding and instruction. While passages and reading difficulty gradually intensify, the strategies remain the same – giving students the perfect combination of novelty and repetition.
In every reading passage across every reading level, students are asked to perform the same essential tasks – with their difficulty and complexity increasing as the student progresses through the reading levels.
With its research-proven, strategy-based approach to teaching reading comprehension at every level, CARS & STARS Online facilitates instruction that teaches the way the brain learns, increasing student awareness of textual features and concepts, and providing a direct and understandable pathway to improving the comprehension of every student.
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.
