My Reading Academy

My Reading Academy

Program Description

My Reading Academy is an adaptive game-based curriculum designed to help students build reading skills focused on phonemic awareness, phonics, vocabulary, fluency, and comprehension. My Reading Academy uses initial assessments to measure each child’s prior knowledge and creates an individual reading plan for that child. The program emphasizes phonological awareness and phonemic awareness. Each learner is presented with a sequence of problems, repetition, and in-time feedback that corresponds to their reading level.

Student Population

My Reading Academy has been studied in a sample of 1097 students in PreK-2 grade classrooms across 4 districts; two in Virginia and two in Texas. In total, there were 30 treatment classrooms and 52 comparison classrooms across the grades. The sample was 33% white, 33% African American, 29% Hispanic, 4% Asian, and 2% Other. The study was conducted in urban and suburban schools.

Current Evidence

My Reading Academy has been rated as "Moderate" by Evidence for ESSA (https://evidenceforessa.org/program/my-reading-academy/). A study found positive effects on state-administered end-of-year literacy assessments, with an average effect size of +0.04, but the impact of My Reading Academy was greater for those students who started with lower level of literacy skills and for those who used the program more.

For more information:

Age of Learning, Inc.

Phone: 818-246-2223

Email: schoolsinfo@aofl.com

Website: https://www.ageoflearning.com/

Bang, H.J. & Siebert-Evenstone, A. (2023). My Reading Academy Drives Accelerated Achievement in Kindergarten and Prekindergarten Students’ Early Literacy Skills. Age of Learning, Inc.