CARS & STARS Online is built with the concept of differentiation and multiple students being in multiple levels of comprehension in every class at any time at its centre. The program was designed specifically to allow teachers and educators to facilitate classes where each student might be on entirely different reading levels.
Every 21st-century teacher knows that personalised, differentiated learning can be the key to success for all students, but especially those in special education or with special needs.
Because of this, being able to cater to each student’s unique needs based on diagnostic assessment results that accurately pinpoint them has long been the holy grail of teaching.
With CARS & STARS Online, you can have every student in a class working on improving their reading comprehension, in the same program, but at the specific level appropriate to them. Students move to the next level when they have proven themselves proficient in one, and those struggling with understanding a certain level can move down to the level beneath that to hone their skills at the teacher’s discretion. All this is facilitated by instantly updating, easily accessible data about student progress.
In this way, instruction with CARS & STARS Online is specific and individualised, so teachers using it realise quickly what they need to focus on for each student. They can then pivot to addressing it easily and immediately, given the flexibility of the program. Because less time is needed to find what they need to focus on, more time is available to target that area – and work to improve it.
The program is aimed at foundational gaps in comprehension and improving them, so it restores hope and confidence in special-education students who might otherwise get disheartened. Because exercises directly target what students need to know, they’re more engaging and enjoyable, and there’s a tremendous sense of achievement. And what they’re learning is so important that, once mastered, it flows through to other subjects, classes and aspects of their daily life.
Being a highly skilled, competent reader is a skill that improves every learner’s life. And with CARS & STARS Online, achieving that is within every student’s grasp – and more easily achievable for their teacher than ever before.
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.
