Smarty Ants
Smarty Ants builds foundational reading skills in an interactive and adaptive learning environment designed to instill a love of reading for students in K-2. “Coach”, their personal ant guide, leads students through animated lessons and activities while providing encouragement along the way.
Smarty Ants combines foundational skills instruction, independent practice, and embedded assessment in a single program with robust teacher supports. Students master complex phonics skills as they learn to decode phonemes and words and eventually read stories.
Young children learn about their world through sensory exploration. The same is true for language acquisition, especially for students struggling with dyslexia and other learning challenges. Children love to sing songs, record and listen to their own read aloud practice, and develop fine motor skills as they follow Coach through their personalized reading adventures.
Students begin their reading journey by taking an adaptive assessment that places students on their own personalized learning path. The pathway begins with explicit instruction and interactive teaching videos that introduce new concepts and sounds before being rewarded with the opportunity to work independently by playing a series of fun learning games. If students need additional support, they are provided with opportunities for guided practice before taking an assessment to evaluate their skill and confidence levels.
Once students graduate from Smarty Ants, they can easily transition to expanding their vocabulary and acquiring content-area knowledge through their fiction and non-fiction reading assignments in Achieve3000 Literacy.
