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Powerful techniques to boost children’s reading skills and develop their confidence as readers.

Reading

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Who’s it for?

The DigiSmart method was developed to enable struggling and/or reluctant readers aged 9–11 to establish a firmer footing before the end of primary school. Key ingredients are fun, motivation, plenty of support and challenge.

Full of variety

Over 100 different content pages designed to be engaging and motivating for children so they get stuck in and, importantly, want to keep going!

Motivation and variety

Video tutorials

Each of 3 video tutorials introduces a fundamental reading skill and teaches children key strategies for coping with, and making sense of, text.

Skimming movie

Scanning movie

Keywords movie

Clear structure

Children are motivated to progress through 5 levels. The Q&A system offers plenty of practice within a clear, supportive framework.

Clear structure

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Progression and challenge

Carefully developed and chosen content pages in each level, all geared to keeping children engaged and wanting to move forward.

Treasure Island question

Level 1

Writer question

Level 3

Hummingbird question

Level 5

Scores and awards

Scores and star awards at each level, plus a record of achievement for each user. Children are motivated to repeat levels to improve their performance.

Level score

Home scores

Scores summary

Bonus features

Content pages on authors, fiction and poetry extracted from the Q&A system by popular demand!

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Bonus features

Guide
Teachers and parents

Users
Set up users

100+
Original content pages

250+
Bank of questions

Progress
5 levels

Scores
Motivating record