By customizing the learning experience for each student, Learning Oasis™ takes differentiated

instruction to a new level and r es the traditional approach to assessment and instruction.

For more information on using Lexile measures to erentiate instruction and monitor progress, visit www.Lexile.com.

What is Learning Oasis?

Learning Oasis is a personalized learning platform that utilizes Lexile® measures to erentiate students’ reading and

writing practice. The system provides an engaging, online environment where students can assume more control

of their learning by completing self-selected reading and writing activities at the right level of challenge to support

literacy growth. And because Learning Oasis uses Lexile measures to target and score these activities, educators and

parents can monitor students’ ongoing progress toward state and the new Common Core standards.

Features of Learning Oasis

· Creates a “student-centric” learning environment that supports key components of skill acquisition: targeted

practice at each student’s level, real-time corrective feedback, intensive practice to increase the volume of daily

activity, distributed practice that provides appropriate activities over time, and self-directed practice.

· Blends assessment with instruction to collect valuable performance data without students experiencing the

pressure of being “tested” or teachers compromising already limited academic time.

· Integrates Lexile measures and computer-adaptive engines to deliver content and create test items in real-time

based on each student’s unique reading and writing abilities and interests.

· Provides immediate scoring, feedback and reporting.

· Extends learning time and promotes the home-classroom connection by providing anytime, anywhere access

to targeted reading and writing activities during the school year and over summer break.

· Connects day-to-day progress with year-to-year summative tests by reporting on the common, developmental

Lexile scale.

· Provides multiple measures over time for more reliable estimates of students’ reading and writing abilities,

as opposed to year-end assessments.

Learning Oasis™ Fact Sheet

The Learning Oasis Experience

Reading: Learning Oasis immerses students in high-interest and subject-

relevant text that is targeted to their Lexile measure. It comprises a

growing collection of more than 35,000 periodical and newspaper

articles on various topics at different levels, ranging from 300L to more

than 1300L. While reading articles within Learning Oasis, students are

periodically presented with auto-generated “cloze” items: passages in

which selected words have been deleted. Students complete each

cloze by selecting the best response from four choices: the original

word from the article plus three other words that are syntactically

correct. Learning Oasis uses these answers to update students’ Lexile

measures, and then automatically offers selections of appropriate and

increasing text complexity based on continued growth.

Writing: Learning Oasis is designed to enhance students’ writing ability,

convention knowledge and device fluency. Students respond to writing

prompts on a range of content-area topics and their responses are

scored by an automatic essay-scoring engine, as well as by the student

and teacher using a state-specific rubric. Students can also evaluate

their ability to correct four types of convention errors: capitalization,

grammar, punctuation and spelling. They have three opportunities to

correct each error type embedded in text that is targeted to their Lexile

measure and receive feedback after each attempt. In addition, Learning

Oasis helps students improve their device fluency: the ability to type

accurately on a keyboard. Keyboarding activities test students’ ability

and the time required to accurately type a selection of targeted text.

Performance on the keyboarding activities, along with students’ Lexile

measures, are combined to provide ability-appropriate typing games.

Learning Oasis is the only system to offer typing games that adapt to

students’ real-time performance.

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The Lexile Framework for Reading evaluates readingability and text complexity on the same developmentalscale. Unlike other measurement systems, the LexileFramework determines reading ability based on actualassessments, rather than general age or grade levels.Recognized as the standard for matching readers withtexts, tens of millions of students worldwide receive aLexile measure that helps them find targeted readingsfrom the more than 400 million articles, books andwebsites that have been measured. Lexile measuresconnect learners of all ages with resources at the rightlevel of challenge and monitor their progress towardstate and national proficiency standards.

The Lexile Framework for Writing is an innovative toolfor differentiating writing instruction and monitoringgrowth in writing ability. It expresses student writingability on the same Lexile scale as reading ability, providing an easy-to-understand language for expressing student writing growth and reinforcing theimportance of reading in the development of writingskills. A Lexile writer measure is an estimate of a student’s ability to express language in writing basedon factors related to the level of the words used andhow those words are combined into sentences. LikeLexile reader measures, Lexile writer measures weredesigned to monitor writing progress within and across school years.

For more information on using Lexile measures to differentiate instruction and monitor progress, visitwww.Lexile.com.

MetaMetrics® is focused on improving education for learners of all ages and ability levels. The organization develops scientific measures of academic achievement and complementary technologies that link assessmentresults with real-world instruction. MetaMetrics’ products and services for reading (The Lexile® Framework forReading, El Sistema Lexile para Leer), mathematics (The Quantile® Framework for Mathematics), and writing (The Lexile Framework for Writing) provide unique insights about academic ability and the potential for growth,enabling individuals to achieve their goals at every stage of development

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