DreamBox Reading provides a variety of incentives to extrinsically motivate and encourage students.
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Mateo’s backpack contains tokens that can be exchanged to play games in the DreamBox Reading Arcade. The number of tokens Mateo has earned is in the header.
If Mateo chooses to save his tokens, he can always visit the Treehouse to admire his rewards collected in his Monster Book or Sticker Book.
As Mateo collects his rewards, he can choose when he plays in the DreamBox Reading Arcade, as well as what he plays in the arcade.
By providing Mateo with a choice between two games, he can own his learning experience, and feels agency over how he celebrates his success.
When Mateo completes a lesson, he earns a token, a Monster Friend card, or a sticker. When Mateo completes a Quest, he earns a Squiggle Page for his Squiggle Book. These rewards empower Mateo to celebrate his success, take pride in his accomplishments, and motivate him to persevere.
Mateo uses Dream Box Reading about 30 minutes every week.
Choose Lesson: R-Controlled Vowels
Collect Lesson: High-Frequency Words
The Squiggle Book introduces a new concept.
Mateo has one last lesson left in this Quest.
Mateo excels in reading and moves through his lessons at just the right speed.
Each new Quest begins with an introduction from the Squiggle Book.
Mateo feels motivated by his success,
and he also is excited to collect rewards.
Fill-in-the-Blank Lesson: HFW- made, make, time, away, back, day, came, here
Today, when Mateo logs into DreamBox Reading, he sees a partially completed Quest in the cave environment and a new Squiggle Sighting at the beach. The Squiggle Sighting signals that there is a new concept to learn.
In this Collect Lesson, Mateo needs to find more than one correct answer to complete each problem. This instructional format helps Mateo learn HFWs (high-frequency words) through practice.
Before he begins to learn about this concept, the Squiggle Book shows him what the lesson will be about.
Every lesson is designed to maximize Mateo’s ability to practice and master foundational reading skills. This includes multiple interactive formats that systematically allow students to learn and practice a robust standards-based scope and sequence.
As Mateo plays, the program’s adaptivity is constantly at work, ensuring that he receives helpful in-the-moment additional practice, or moves through lessons at an accelerated rate, depending on his real-time learning needs.
Mateo is performing above grade level, so he is advancing through the curriculum at an accelerated pace that’s just right for him. This
in-the-moment instruction keeps him in his zone of proximal development and ensures he’s never bored or frustrated by the content.
Before Mateo begins this Quest he learns about the new concept. In this Quest he will explore
R-controlled vowels.
Mateo reviews the new concept and closes his Squiggle Book to start his lesson.
As Mateo works through his lessons, he receives individualized instruction and just the right amount of practice across foundational skills. He also is able to engage in many delightful environments across a variety of lesson types.
Next, he is ready to pick up where he left off on a Quest in the Reading Park cave.
During this lesson, Mateo applies the concepts he has learned so far. Early in the program, he completed Fill-in-the-Blank Lessons by filling in the correct grapheme in a word. As he has progressed, he is now completing the missing word in a sentence.
After demonstrating mastery, Mateo earns a page for his Squiggle Book, and he can return to the Squiggle Map to complete new lessons.
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He discovers that this lesson will teach him about High-Frequency Words. Mateo reviews the new concept and starts the lesson.
Mateo can openly explore different areas of Reading Park and select the lessons he’d like to work through first. This agency allows Mateo to self-direct his learning experience. He clicks on the Squiggle Sighting to explore the beach and start a new Quest.
The difficulty of these lessons has increased as Mateo has moved through the scope and sequence of DreamBox Reading. After just minutes, he does a great job collecting all the words and is ready to start his next lesson.
New concepts build upon concepts learned in previous Quests, and the gamification of instruction and practice keeps Mateo engaged and focused on learning.
Mateo is ready to start his capstone activity to measure his understanding of a concept he has practiced. He will complete a Fill-in-the-Blank Lesson.
On the map he sees a new Squiggle Sighting in the mountains and his partially completed Quest at the beach. But, he decides to take a short break to celebrate some of his rewards.
Close the Squiggle Book when you are ready to watch Mateo complete his lesson.
Click play to watch Mateo practice HFWs
Click the treehouse to explore rewards
Click play to watch Mateo complete his lesson
Click play to watch Mateo complete his final lesson in this Quest
Click the sign near the cave to get started
Click the flashing Squiggle Sighting to start a Quest at the beach
Click play to watch a Squiggle Book concept introduction
Click the lesson to get started
Discover Rewards
Learn about Rewards
Learn about Rewards
Watch Mateo complete his first lesson
Learn about Rewards
Return to the Squiggle Map
Learn about Rewards
Return to the Squiggle Map
Learn about Rewards
Complete another HFW lesson
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in-lesson and between-lesson adaptations offers students the most personalized and effective technology-driven instruction. The program is built on DreamBox’s Intelligent Adaptive Learning platform–a patented system that leverages cognitive science and research-based learning principles to engage and support students.
Mateo,
First-Grade Student
Emiko,
Kindergarten Student
Regardless of whether a student soars or struggles with a concept, the program meets them where they are, adapting instruction to help them achieve and grow to love reading.
Emiko,
Kindergarten: Month 7
Mateo,
First Grade: Month 2
Emiko loves coloring and playing on the swings at recess.
Emiko knows the names and sounds of most of her letters, but she still struggles with g, d, and p.
Mateo likes dancing and his favorite animal is a squid. Mateo excels at reading. He has already mastered phonemic awareness and decoding, and he has started working on fluency and comprehension.
