Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. vs Earncade

New from Scholastic! A new adventure in learning to read! Small Actions. Big Results. Ooka Island transforms teaching foundational reading skills by breaking the process down into thousands of micro-actions — 6,695 to be exact. With an instructionally robust methodology and highly adaptive technology, Ooka Island actively personalizes each student’s path toward fluent reading. - Steeped in Research and Efficacy Built on Dr. Kay MacPhee’s proven, research-based concepts, Ooka Island purposefully leads with securing children's phonemic awareness while teaching phonological skills to ensure reading words becomes as effortless as speaking-so students can focus on comprehension. Dive into the research to learn more about Ooka Island's effective foundational reading program. - Reporting for Educators at All Levels It's important to know how a student, class, school or district is progressing at both a high-level and the most granular. It's equally important to make that data actionable for educators. Ooka Island’s meaningful reports are filled with the richest and most impactful metrics, giving educators the tools they need to help meet their critical reading goals. - Adaptive. Really. Being highly adaptive means seamlessly supporting all students throughout their early reading journey. With three levels of adaptability—immediate scaffolding, adaptations to pacing, and more complex interventions—Ooka Island's continuous formative assessment understands the precise moment, and the right type of intervention, to help a student succeed. - Learning After the Bell Connecting reading to the home and family has a significant lifelong impact. Purposefully designed to be equitable for outside of school access, Ooka Island can be used anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Using their personalized account, students pick up wherever they left off, continuing to make measurable progress on their own learn to read adventure.

Earncade helps families replace repeated reminders and screen-time arguments with a simple routine: read first, then play. HOW IT WORKS • A parent scans or imports up to five pages from a real book. • Earncade creates three direct comprehension questions and one optional Challenge. • The parent reviews the questions, chooses a reward, and publishes the task. • The child reads, answers, and adds earned minutes to Available Time. • The child chooses when to use those minutes on apps selected by the parent. Earncade measures actual app use and restores the limits when time is up. BUILT AROUND THE BOOKS YOU ALREADY HAVE Earncade does not replace your bookshelf with an open content feed. Parents choose the pages and remain in control of every task. DESIGNED FOR A CALMER FAMILY ROUTINE Parent Space lets a grown-up create and manage tasks, choose blocked apps, enable Screen Control, grant minutes, or pause new playtime. The kid experience stays simple and encouraging. No ads. No open web browsing. Screen limits use Apple’s Screen Time technology. Cloud question generation requires parent sign-in and explicit consent to share reviewed book text.