Reading Success Lab Software: An Integrated Approach to Assessing and Strengthening Reading and Math Skills

1. Reading Success Lab Software:An Integrated Approach to Assessing and Strengthening Reading and Math Skills James M. Royer, PhD Department of Psychology University of Massachusetts And President, Reading Success Lab royer@psych.umass.edu www.readingsuccesslab.com

2. The Components of the Reading Success Lab System I. The Assessment Module • Measures the speed and accuracy of performance • for a variety of reading and math tasks II. The Skill Builder (Intervention) Module • Develops fluent (fast and accurate) word • identification and math fact retrieval skills III. The Designer Module • Allows the development of assessment tasks • and intervention tasks using local materials • and local voices • (All Modules Available For Single Computer or a Network)

3. The Assessment Module • Measures Speed and/or Accuracy of: • Phonological Awareness • Letter Naming • Word Naming • Nonword Naming • Activation of Word Meaning • Sentence Understanding • Listening Comprehension • Reading Comprehension • Addition • Subtraction • Multiplication • Division

4. The Assessment Module (Cont): • Reading Assessments Available in the • Following Levels: • Kindergarten- First Grade • Grades 3-5 • Grades 6-8 • High School and Adult Assessments can be used to: • Diagnose Learning Difficulties • Track Educational Progress • Create Comprehensive Assessment and • Progress Reports

6. The Skill Builder (Intervention) Module: • Designed to: • Develop Automatic Letter and • Word Recognition Skills • Develop Automatic Math Fact • Skills in Addition, Subtraction, • Multiplication and Division • Can be Used in Two Modes: • A Scorer Present Mode Where Someone More • Skilled than the Student Scores Accuracy • A Student Self-Scoring Mode where the Student • Practices Alone

7. After a Practice Session the Student Receives Immediate Feedback

8. Skill Builder Intervention Materials Available in English: • Letter Naming • Word Families • Grades 1-8 • Subject Matter Materials: • Social Studies • Biology • Chemistry • Physics • Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication • Division

9. The Skill Builder Module Also Contains a .WAV File • Recorder and Editor that can be Used to: • Record Reading Samples at Periodic Intervals • These Samples Can be Used to Document Initial • Skills and Reading Progress • Create Auditory Records that can Later be • Analyzed for Reading Rate, Miscues and other • Elements of Text Reading

10. The Designer Module: • Designed to: • Facilitate the Creation of Assessment and • Intervention Materials in Any Written Language • and Utilizing any Spoken Language for Content • and Task Instructions • Allows Control of Presentation Features such as • Font, Color, Presentation Intervals, and Response • Source

11. Results for Interventions: • Studies in the U.S. show gains in • overall word reading performance for • regularly spelled words • Studies also show gains in reading • comprehension • Studies in Australia show mathematics • gains on both experimenter generated • problem solving tests and on national • standardized tests

12. Software Marketed to: • Primary Market in U.S. to Parents and Schools • Used in Approximately 50 Australian Schools • to Develop Fluent Reading and Math Skills • Several Users in Singapore, One of Whom is • Creating a Version of the System in Chinese • Trinidad and Tobago is Negotiating Purchase of • the System for Widespread Use in the • Public School System • Software has Been Used for Research Purposes • in Haiti, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, and India