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Headsprout Early Reading contains 80 adaptive online episodes that take a non-reader or beginning reader up to mid-Second Grade reading skills in 30 hours of individualized online instruction. Headsprout guarantees that every Kindergarten or First Grade student who completes Headsprout Early Reading will be reading at grade level. Episodes may be repeated or reset and all episodes are tracked in secure, automated assessment and performance reports. An internet-connected computer, a mouse, and a set of headphones are all students need to use the program.

Episodes 1-23: “Crack the Code”Students learn that letters represent sounds ●Students learn that sounds go together to ●make wordsStudents learn the critical strategies of: ●

finding sounds in words (segmenting) ●saying contiguous sounds (blending) ●saying words based upon hearing ●themselves say blended sounds

Potential Reading vocabulary builds up to 50 words ●10 print stories are provided ●

“The design of Headsprout Early Reading makes learning to read fun and inviting for my students.”

Readiness Program: “Mousing Around”Mousing Around ensures students know how to use a mouse. In addition to basic mouse skills, Mousing Around also presents basic concepts and instructions found in Headsprout Early Reading, such as "first," "next," "last," "left," "right," "top," "down," and "not."

80 Online Episodes

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Episodes 24-40: “Reading Makes Sense”Students learn in one lesson what previously ●took two or three lessonsStudents learn that sounds make up words, ●and that words make sentences and storiesStories increase in length and complexity ●Potential reading vocabulary increases up to ●500 words20 more print stories are provided ●

Episodes 41-56: “Accelerate and Diversify”

Episodes 57-80: “Reading for Meaning and Enjoyment”

The pace of the program continues to quicken ●Multiple individual sounds are learned and ●applied in the very same lessonStudents practice segmenting and decoding ●with compound and nonsense wordsStudents experience a greater emphasis on ●comprehension11 stories are provided that contain new ●vocabulary, decodable words, and themes

One to two stories are read per lesson ●Poetry and expository text are introduced ●Students experience more challenging ●comprehension and critical thinking activitiesPassage-reading fluency is greatly extended ●Potential reading vocabulary increases up to ●5,000 words39 more stories are provided, including ●chapter books (80 stories in all)

Introductory Kit

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The Introductory Kit is included with purchases of less than 50 Completion or Site Licenses.

The following items are included:1-2-3 Quick Guide•Benchmark Assessment Kit•Three Guiding Principles Poster•Progress Map and Stickers•Graduation Certificate•

Essentials Kit

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The Essentials Kit is included with purchases of 50 or more Completion or Site Licenses.

The following items are included:All items in the Introductory Kit•Sprout Stories Kit•Mini Sprout Stories Kit•Classroom Progress Wall Chart Set•Sprout Cards•Teacher’s Guide•

Items shown are in addition to the Introductory Kit

Educator Welcome Pack

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Each teacher using Headsprout Early Reading will receive an Educator Welcome Pack with purchases of 50 or more Completion or Site Licenses.

The following items are included for each teacher using Headsprout Early Reading:

1-2-3 Quick Guide•Benchmack Assessment Kit•Three Guiding Principles Poster•Progress Map and Stickers•Graduation Certificate•

Classroom Kit

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The Headsprout Classroom Kit includes premium materials to help teachers integrate Headsprout Early Reading into their teaching routine.

The following items are included:Sprout Stories Kit•Mini Sprout Stories Kit•Classroom Progress Wall Chart Set•Teacher’s Guide•

Premium Classroom Kit

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The Headsprout Premium Classroom Kit gives teachers all the materials needed to deliver a rich classroom experience. In addition to all the materials needed for classroom enrichment, the Premium Classroom Kit comes with individual take-home print materials for each student in the class.

The following items are included:All items in the Classroom Kit•25 Mini Sprout Stories Kits•5-pack of 12 Headsprout Readers•25 Progress Maps and Stickers •25 Graduation Certificates•Sprout Cards•

Celebration Kit

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The Celebration Kit includes fun and instructional materials to celebrate success. Kits can be purchased for each classroom, or for each Reading Specialist in a targeted intervention as a valuable tool to motivate struggling readers.

The following items are included:1 Headsprout Congratulations Mug•1 Congratulations Poster•Copy of “In the Blue and Green” Play•25 Graduation Certificates•25 Headsprout Pencils•25 Scout Puppets•

Progress Map, Stickers, and Graduation Certificates

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The colorful Progress Map and Stickers motivate students and helps them keep track of their progress through the worlds of Headsprout Early Reading.

Graduation Certificates give teachers a way to formally recognize students as they successfully complete the program or parts of the program.

12 Headsprout Readers

Teacher’s Guide

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The 12 Headsprout Readers give students direct practice with the skills taught in the online episodes. These full-color books of the online stories are also used to conduct Benchmark Reading Assessments and evaluate students’ reading progress.

The Teacher’s Guide provides all the information needed to get started and be successful using Headsprout Early Reading, including a detailed description of the Headsprout Early Reading curriculum.

Mini Sprout Stories Kit

Classroom Progress Wall Charts

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Teachers use the Classroom Progress Wall Charts to stay organized and track the progress of multiple students through Headsprout Early Reading.

The Mini Sprout Stories Kit contains all 80 Sprout Stories, which both promote a love of reading and reinforce the skills learned in the program. The stories are timed to occur when students are ready for them; they are keyed to specific episodes and include sounds and words the learner has been prepared to read.

Placement Assessment

Sprout Cards

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Placement Assessments may be given before placing advanced students in Headsprout Early Reading. Both teachers and para-educators can give Placement Assessments, and administering these assessments can be done quickly.

Sprout Cards are flashcards that students can use to further practice the sounds and words taught in Headsprout Early Reading. Sprout Cards are grouped in sets according to episode. Each set of cards features phonetic elements and characters from the most recent block of episodes.

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Headsprout Reading Comprehension ensures reading comprehension for every learner. The text used in the program begins at the mid-2nd Grade level and progresses to the mid-4th Grade level, but the strategies taught are universal. Printed stories, suggested ways of extending what is learned online to the classroom, and detailed individualized automated performance reports accompany the program.

50 Online Episodes

Literal Comprehension

Literal comprehension questions are those in which the answer is explicitly stated in the text. This question type is referred to as a Find the Fact question. Learners identify when a question is asking about something that can be found in the text, learn how to find the answer in the text, and match an answer choice with the words that they found in the text.

Inferential ComprehensionInferential comprehension questions are those in which the answer is not explicitly stated in the text. This question type is referred to as a Clue Word question. When learners can’t find the fact in the passage, they learn to look back for clue words that make them think about the answer to the question. The clue words are different than the possible answers, but they help answer the question.

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Mostly About/Main Idea Comprehension

Vocabulary/Derived Meaning

Main Idea questions involve identifying the predominant theme in a passage. This question type is referred to as a Mostly About question. Students first learn how to identify the theme of a portion of text, then determine how often that theme occurs by filling “theme buckets,” and ultimately decide that the most common theme is what the paragraph or passage talks about the most.

Vocabulary questions ask the learner to identify the meaning of a word or phrase that occurs in the text. This question type is referred to as a Vocabulary question. Learners are asked to substitute the possible word meanings given for the target word in the sentence where the word appears. They then decide if the sentence or group of sentences “makes sense” with the substituted word or words. The possible answer that makes the most sense is what the word or words most likely mean.

5 Companion Books

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The 5 Headsprout Reading Comprehension companion books individually bound collections of stories (grouped by Fountas & Pinnell levels) are approximately 40 pages. They include stories, expository passages, vocabulary, selected questions, and a key to identifying question types. Each book also encompasses learned text and vocabulary from episodes completed along with sample questions.

Teaching Guide

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The Teacher’s Guide provides all the information needed to get started and be successful using Headsprout Early Reading, including a detailed

description of the Headsprout Reading Comprehension curriculum.