3. iStartSmart 2.0 Mobile
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4. iStartSmart 2.0 Mobile
Reporting and Data
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5. Product Features
• Shell Squad Games
– Authentic Child Log-in using photograph
– 5 Skill Development Areas
– 18 School Readiness Skill Development Areas
(Games) Focusing on Math and Literacy Skills
– Robust progress monitoring tools
7. Key Squad Shell Game Features
• Five different levels for each game: tutorial
(TT), emerging (EG), developing (DG),
developed (DD), and completed (CD).
• Automated progression rules determine the
child progression to the areas without teacher
intervention.
8. Shell Squad Game Features, Con’t
• Game provides automatic intervention and
instruction based on each answer provided by
the child.
• An animated tutorial explains how to play
each game.
• A licensed speech pathologist pronounces
words and sounds where appropriate.
• Help button for child’s use if needed.
9. help button
• The green help button in the upper
right hand corner of the game screen
activates the tutorial.
• Children can play this at any time throughout
any level.
10. Progression rules & Scaffolding
• One of the many benefits of Shell Squad
Games is that the system determines which
games each child plays based on how he
played during previous sessions.
• The teacher does NOT have to determine
which games each child plays.
11. FAMILIES
• The 18 skill development areas within Shell Squad
Games are organized into 5 families.
• Within each family, the skill development areas are
presented in a particular way so that children are not
exposed to advanced concepts before they show some
success at the foundational levels.
• The first time the child logs into Shell Squad Games, she
is placed in one of the five (5) top level foundation
activities. The other activities are not available to the
child until they show progress in these foundation
activities.
12. Family Scaffolding
Phonological awareness Numeric operations Language development Alphabet knowledge Logic and reasoning
TT-Sentence Segmenting TT-Counting Foundations TT-Language Vocabulary TT-Letter Recognition TT-Common Shapes
TT-Spatial Skills
TT-Initial Sounds TT-Numeral Recognition TT-Sorting
(Vocabulary)*
TT-Blending TT-Measurement
TT-Sequence Counting TT-Patterning
Compound Words (Vocabulary)*
TT-Segmenting
TT-Objects in a Set
Compound Words
TT-Onset Rime TT-Addition
TT-Subtraction
* Spatial Skills and Measurement are listed under Language development
because building a math vocabulary is as equally important as building a
vocabulary in literacy.
13. Monitoring Progress In a Game
• We have built in a tool to show how close a child is to
finishing a game. It is the thermometer in the top left
corner of the screen. The more color it is filled with the
closer they are to being finished.
33. Helping You: Beyond the Computer
• Beyond the Computer offers classroom
activities that support all Shell Squad Games
for children needing extra assistance outside
computer time.
• On Hatch website at
www.BeyondtheComputer.HatchEarlyChildhood.com
34. Beyond the Computer Example
• Family: Logic & Reasoning
• Skill: Sorting
• Materials: The book, Goldilocks and the Three Bears
Details: Invite the children to join you in a large group and
share the story about Goldilocks and the Three Bears with your
class. As you read, invite the children to discuss the different
sizes that Goldilocks finds in the bears’ home. Explain to the
children there are items from the bears’ home for them to sort
into categories based on whether they are large, medium or
small (i.e., Papa Bear’s items are large, Mama Bear’s items are
medium and Baby Bear’s items are small). Invite the children to
find other classroom items that could belong to them.
The system provides the teacher with a detailed breakdown of what a child is able to do, following their progress across 18 critical variables. It’s a level of ongoing formative assessment that one only sees currently in the classrooms of some of the nation’s most skilled practitioners