Reading Comprehension

For Hawker Brownlow Education

For Hawker Brownlow Education

CARS & STARS Online is a comprehensive reading comprehension program that offers flexibility, interactivity, customisation, and cost-effectiveness for educators. It also provides premier support and professional development at no extra cost. For existing customers, specialised training programs are available to ensure a seamless transition to the online platform. With CARS & STARS Online, educators can provide their students with a high-quality reading comprehension program that prepares them for success in school and beyond.

How Conceptual Learning Helps Reading

How Conceptual Learning Helps Reading

Conceptual learning can significantly aid in learning to read and improving reading comprehension. Conceptual learning helps children develop a solid foundation of knowledge and understanding about various subjects. When children have prior knowledge and familiarity with the concepts related to a text, they can make connections, draw upon their existing knowledge and better comprehend what they read.

Playing Outdoors Can Benefit Reading Skills, Too

Playing Outdoors Can Benefit Reading Skills, Too

Playing outdoors can have several positive effects on children’s reading comprehension skills, through positive impacts relating to vocabulary expansion, contextual learning and critical thinking skills, among others.

Putting the Pieces Together

Putting the Pieces Together

Good reading comprehension skills can help individuals to make sense of fragmented texts and information presented in pieces, and put it into a meaningful context by enabling them to identify key information, make connections, infer meaning, evaluate credibility and synthesise information from multiple sources.

Reading Comprehension for the Real World

Reading Comprehension for the Real World

Reading comprehension can impact a person's career success, personal growth, social interactions, decision-making abilities and civic engagement. With this in mind, shouldn’t you give your students the best possible grounding in reading comprehension? This is where the CARS & STARS Online digital reading comprehension program can help.

The Importance of Reading Comprehension in Higher Education

The Importance of Reading Comprehension in Higher Education

Reading comprehension is a foundational skill that is essential for success in higher education. You can give your students the best possible head start for higher education with the CARS & STARS Online digital reading comprehension program.

Prepare for a Successful School Year With Our Ultimate Back-to-school Guide for Principals and Administrators

Prepare for a Successful School Year With Our Ultimate Back-to-school Guide for Principals and Administrators

As you gear up for the new school year, make sure to implement proven techniques and lessons from the previous year that boost and prioritise student achievement in reading comprehension. To support you in this endeavour, we've curated a collection of our most valuable resources and recommended solutions for you to use. Don't miss out on the opportunity to give your students the tools they need to excel in reading comprehension.

Brainstorming for Comprehension

Brainstorming for Comprehension

Brainstorming can help with reading comprehension in several ways. There are no wrong answers in brainstorming, and all participants should be encouraged to contribute without a fear of criticism. Open-ended questions elicit responses from everybody, giving all present a well-rounded and open insight into often very different ways of looking at a text.

Tips for Improving Literacy Skills

Tips for Improving Literacy Skills

A reader who has progressed through CARS & STARS Online won’t just be able to read a text, they’ll be able to determine why they think it was written and what the person who wrote it was trying to get them to think when they read it.

Reading Can Improve Social Skills, Too

Reading Can Improve Social Skills, Too

Learning social skills is a vital part of a child’s growth and development, perhaps more so today than ever before. But did you know that reading can be beneficial to a child’s social development, as well as to their academic success?

The Five Central Components of Reading

The Five Central Components of Reading

Reading Comprehension has been defined as one of the five central components of reading, along with Phonics, Phonemic Awareness, Vocabulary and Fluency. CARS & STARS Online is a digital reading program designed to turn every student into a proficient and capable reader, with advanced levels of reading comprehension.

Reading Well Not Just for School, but for Life

Reading Well Not Just for School, but for Life

Students who read well perform better in all subjects, but they also have an advantage in life. CARS & STARS Online aims to take students and make them informed, evaluative interpreters of text.

Reading Comprehension is Vital in STEM, Like Everywhere Else

Reading Comprehension is Vital in STEM, Like Everywhere Else

From the simplest levels of the program to the most complex, CARS & STARS Online is all about emphasising understanding and the development of excellent reading comprehension skills. This works hand in hand with all aspects of STEM instruction to create not just better readers, but students who are better positioned to take on all subjects – be they STEM or anything else they put their mind to.

Writing Improves Reading Too

Writing Improves Reading Too

Writing responses is the highest level of comprehension because students can communicate their learning and viewpoints, demonstrating the extent of their knowledge about a text and articulating their own learning. This is a valuable insight for teachers and a pivotal part of the STARS module of CARS & STARS Online, and FOCUS Reading, with their goal of making all students better readers.

Reading for Meaning

Reading for Meaning

CARS & STARS Online aims to take students and make them informed, evaluative interpreters of text. Reading comprehension is a more vital skill than ever, and a student schooled by CARS & STARS Online will be able to perform high-level textual analysis as second nature, on every text.

A COMPLETE FAMILY OF PRODUCTS

Discover how CARS & STARS Online’s integrated teaching and learning system gives teachers the insights and instructional tools to differentiate and support student growth.

CARS

CARS

Get the data you need to drive instruction and measure progress.

STARS

STARS

Target instruction on the essential reading comprehension strategies.

FOCUS Reading

FOCUS Reading

Concentrated practice to reinforce essential reading strategies.

WHAT PRINCIPALS, TEACHERS AND PARENTS ARE SAYING

This differentiated program allows students to read texts which are at a level suitable for their current ability and leads to students being more engaged in reading lessons. As a result, they can experience success and improve their reading and comprehension abilities. CARS & STARS Online is an important part of the English program and we are seeing fantastic improvement across all years in students' reading and comprehension abilities.

Linda Samardali
Head of Department from Kinross College

I've found CARS & STARS Online has really helped in improving my children's reading skills. The skills were all clearly presented with a lot of samples and practice opportunities. The student report also gives the parents a clear guide as to which areas need reinforcement and which areas each child is strong in.

Shannon Zhao
Parent from Sydney

I have found CARS & STARS Online very beneficial, especially during our time teaching and learning remotely. The ability to track live what the students are doing was helpful to ensure that they were remaining on task and to provide feedback.

Brent Ritchie
Teacher from Haileybury

Now that I understand how to use the online program and utilise the tools correctly, I am enjoying using CARS & STARS Online. The ability to locate and download the different reports is phenomenal!

Amber Rains
Teacher from Kambala

I am a bit of a technophobe but using CARS & STARS Online has certainly made life easier and the kids have found it easy to navigate.

Jo Oram
Teacher from Prescott College Southern

CARS & STARS Online has become a very useful tool for my staff to implement effective teaching and learning programs. Having a tool that gives timely assessment results, meets students at their level of need and allows them to see exactly what students are working on in real-time is time effective and impacts on future goals.

The detailed assessment data generated by CARS & STARS Online informs the specific direction of their reading and comprehension teaching. Students report they enjoy the tasks and feel a real sense of accomplishment as they work through the lessons and assessments at their own pace.

Craig Brown
Principal from Toongabbie Public School

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