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Prodigy Education launches new reading & writing game

The edtech company is expanding its game-based portfolio to meet growing market demand from parents and kids for personalized learning products.

Toronto-based edtech visitor Prodigy Educational activity has expanded into games that teach fundamental reading and writing skills to elementary students.

Its latest championship, Prodigy English language, allows kids to scavenge and farm for resource they can use to build their own villages online. Each major action they perform in the game, from breaking rocks to chopping trees, consumes the player'southward energy meter, which they can only replenish by answering curriculum-based questions. The game is available worldwide, and all in-game educational content is free to access.

Prodigy Educational activity started developing the new title 2 years ago in response to concerns expressed by parents and educators that younger students were struggling to develop core reading and writing skills during the pandemic, says co-CEO Alex Peters.

"Similar to math, english curriculum is a ticket to learning all other content," Peters tells Kidscreen. "If you can't read or write, you have a very hard time consuming whatever type of knowledge. We're trying to gear up students for lifelong success by getting them to dear the learning process."

At launch, Prodigy English will focus on catering to students in grades ane through five, just the company plans to extend its content upwards to form eight with hereafter updates. The championship'due south features and gameplay systems will also receive additional back up, somewhen allowing players to fish, care for animals and visit their friends' towns.

To ensure the game'southward questions meet educational requirements and enhance the student's learning, Prodigy Pedagogy has hired an internal squad of experts and former teachers with backgrounds in language arts to arrange the curriculum for each grade into approximately 500 essential skills, which include reading, rhyming, phonetics and spelling.

To monitor a user's progress and skill development, both educators and parents can create a free Prodigy account to meet classroom activeness and proceeds insights into what the child is focusing on.

Parents are primary drivers of educational outcomes, and by making it easier for them to sympathize how their child is doing, they can significantly impact the learning experience, says Peters.

Parents can also purchase optional monthly or yearly memberships starting at U.s.$9.95 per month, which allows parents to do things like ready goals the child can attain to obtain in-game rewards, view which questions are causing problem, and access supplemental videos and printable worksheets.

Similar to Prodigy Math (the company'due south showtime championship), if a educatee finds the fabric too challenging, the game uses its adaptive algorithm to lower the difficulty. This helps lessen frustration levels, motivating kids to continue playing and learning. Personalized learning is condign a prevalent trend in edtech, driven past potent market place demand from both parents and children.