Category: Middle School Learners (6-8)

Ohio Middle and Elementary Students See Up to Four Times Greater Reading Growth with MindPlay

Reading Challenge: An Ohio district is faced with 129 identified middle and elementary school struggling readers. District Profile: 1100 students; Grades K-12; 40% Free/Reduced Lunch The Story At Cardinal Local School District, in Middlefield, OH, Speech Therapist Dr. Melissa Butler is in charge of screening and providing interventions for struggling grades three-through-eight students. In September 2017, […]

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National Reading Month Success Series: District Sees Growth of Three-Plus Grade Levels in Reading for More Than 100 Students During 12 Week Pilot

EL, struggling and non-struggling students all showed dramatic gains with personalized diagnoses and instructional pathways. March 15, 2018, Tucson, AZ—MindPlay online reading and literacy publisher announces dramatic district-wide gains for EL, struggling and grade-level readers at Indiana’s South Bend Community School Corporation. A large urban, diverse, high-poverty district of 18,000 students, South Bend serves a […]

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National Reading Month Success Series: Middle School Struggling Readers Average Two Years’ Grade Level Growth in One Semester

Special Education and struggling readers make dramatic reading gains with MindPlay literacy online program March 7, 2018, Tucson, AZ—MindPlay online reading and literacy publisher announces dramatic gains for struggling students at the grade six-through-eight Lou Mendive Middle School in Reno, Nevada. In August, the average reading level for most Mendive English language learners was third […]

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Special Education and Tier III Middle School Students Exceed Reading Program Expectations Using MindPlay

Reading Challenge: Bringing high-risk middle school students to grade level in reading. Cheryl Efird is “Operation Graduation” Reading Teacher at Morgan County Middle School in Madison, GA. The 718-student, grade six through eight population has a 42 percent rate of free and reduced lunches. The school is part of a county charter school system that […]

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Middle School Struggling Readers Average Two to Three Years’ Grade Level Growth in One Semester

Reading Challenge: Middle school students are up to four grade levels below in reading. Richard Wiley, Ed.S., M.Ed., is EL and Tier III Reading Interventionist at Lou Mendive Middle School in Reno, NV. With 1,100 grade six through eight students, Mendive serves a population of 47 percent free/reduced lunch students, many of whom are up […]

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Middle School Struggling Readers Succeed on MVRC

Reading challenge: Motivating struggling middle school students to envision a brighter future through literacy. In the summer of 2016, Reading Interventionist Tammi Humphreys was hired by Tanglewood Middle School in Greenville, SC, to create a computer lab where at-risk students could improve their literacy skills. Among the primary challenges Humphreys faced with her grade six-through-eight […]

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Tech-Savvy Intervention Program Manager Harnesses Grapevine for Educator Buy-In

Reading Challenge: Promoting the use of MindPlay as a K-12 reading solution. Houston Independent School District’s Intervention Program Manager, Mary Miner, says it was viral communication about MindPlay’s success that inspired more and more schools to adopt it as a reading solution. “We never mandated the use of MindPlay but allowed word of mouth to […]

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The Art of Transitioning a District

Reading Challenge: A Superintendent Implements a District-Wide Reading Solution To say that change has been the hallmark of the Manor (Texas) Independent School District over the past five years would be an understatement. Student enrollment has increased by more than 1,000, the population of English language learners is growing significantly, and overall enrollment is projected […]

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Rural Wisconsin Middle School Customizes Learning for At-Risk Students

Reading Challenge: Implementing an adaptive and affordable reading solution for struggling middle school students. In the far western edge of Wisconsin, the primarily rural community of Prescott is fueled by agriculture and industry, including an oil refinery in nearby St. Paul, MN. Principal Jim Dalluhn is now in his third year at the 360-student Prescott […]

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