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Our algorithm responds to students’ answers, providing passages and questions that become incrementally more challenging as students master content. This adaptive literacy learning personalizes the instruction for each student, keeping them motivated in their Zone of Proximal Development.
Within Dreamscape, reading comprehension is broken down into multiple sub-skills for the purpose of strategic instruction.
Gameplay first offers questions that require literal responses. These are questions that require students to demonstrate basic recall skills. The answers to these questions are usually found directly within the text.
Skills include:
Advanced reading skills require students to infer beyond what is directly written in the text.
In Dreamscape, students will become attuned to writing techniques used by authors in order to identify nuances and determine deeper meanings held within texts.
Skills include:
If students struggle with a particular skill while reading passages and answering reading comprehension questions, our platform offers opportunities to practice those skills in isolation.
Students can encounter independent questions. With these questions, the cognitive demands of the reading passages are removed, so students can fully focus on practicing skills.
Skills include:
Research shows that becoming a strong reader benefits students in all subject areas and provides students with valuable skills they can apply to general, real-life problem-solving.
To support those aims of reading, we offer interdisciplinary reading passages, as well as skills that relate to general academic reasoning.
Skills include:
Genres
Skills
With Dreamscape’s streak feature, students are rewarded for continuously answering questions correctly. Working towards maintaining a streak promotes healthy competition, increases engagement and motivates students to master new reading comprehension questions they encounter.
In Dreamscape, students must earn resources in order to customize their base and their gaming experience. This customization can only be achieved through answering questions correctly. As a result, their achievements give them agency in Dreamscape, which they can be proud of.
Our educator dashboard is continuously updated with realtime data to show how students are progressing in their reading skills through STEALTH assessment. Additionally, our in game leaderboard highlights game play progress and top ranking players for added motivation and engagement.
Students have the option to connect with other players via battles. Dreamscape’s battles give students the chance to visit their friend’s (or their teacher’s) base and develop tactical strategies to defeat the base.
Dreamscape provides a multitude of opportunity to for students to receive rewards based on their achievements. Students can be rewarded through answering questions correctly in-game, by receiving rewards from their teacher’s dashboard and much more.