Parent and Family Guide

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 Parent and Family Guide

Table of contents

Getting started............................................................................3

Navigating your personal collection.......................................... 5

Book information........................................................................6

Read, rate, and review.................................................................7

Literacy tools...............................................................................8

Student assessment...................................................................9

Student profile...........................................................................10

Recommended titles.................................................................11

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Getting started

STEP 1
Follow the login
instructions provided by
your child’s teacher.
Student login credentials
provide the ability to
personalize the program,
monitor progress and
measure growth.

Pre-K–5 STEP 2
Interest Inventory
Indicates your child’s interests
based on 11 categories.
The interest inventory interface
changes based on grade level.
Students have the ability to
update reading interests
at any time using the
Student Account tab.

STEP 3
Placement Test
Taken at first login for
students in grades K and up,
this initial placement
test provides a Lexile®
measure of your child’s
Grades 6 and Up
reading ability.

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Navigating your personal collection

Pre-K–5
This landing page provides Student
your child with the ability to: Account tab
view recent activity, View information
specific recommended unique to individual
students.
titles, current reading
myON tab
level and account
usage information. The envelope
indicates a benchmark Projects tab
assessment is ready
to be taken. Access reading
and writing
News tab projects assigned
Library tab by faculty.
Open the multiple If your school also
search features to has a subscription
access the growing to myON News,
collection access it here.
of texts.

1. Recommended
Books based on student interests and reading ability.
Personalized for each individual user, students can
access a variety of books recommended specifically
1 2 3 for them.
2. Browse
Access all books within the growing collection. This
tab allows students to search by specific categories.
3. My List
Personal collection of student’s favorite books they
have saved for later use.

Search
Use a variety of
search options to
access specific
content.

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Navigating your personal collection

Grades 6
and Up Student
Account tab
View information
unique to individual
This landing page provides students.
your child with the ability myON tab
to: view recent activity, The envelope
specific recommended indicates a benchmark
assessment is ready
titles, current reading to be taken. Projects tab
level and account News tab Access reading
usage information. If your school also and writing
has a subscription projects assigned
to myON News, by faculty.
Library tab access it here.
Open the multiple
search features to
access the growing
collection
of texts.
1. Recommended
Books based on student interests and reading ability.
Personalized for each individual user, students can
access a variety of books recommended specifically
for them.
1 2 3 2. Browse
Access all books within the growing collection. This
tab allows students to search by specific categories.
3. My List
Personal collection of student’s favorite books they
have saved for later use.

Search
Use a variety of
search options to
access specific
content.

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Book information
1. Read a synopsis of the book.
2. View other relevant information about this
specific title.
3. See what other learners think about
this book.

Click Click
Click
Download the title onto
Read Save to a personal list to
one of the myON apps
the book. read at a later time.
for offline reading.

*If available

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Read, rate, and review

Exit

Other pages

Settings

Play

Zoom In or Out
Page Selector
Volume
Move the circle up
to make the audio
Back 10
louder or down to
Seconds Start Audio Here
make it softer. View Full Screen/
View Windowed

Dictionary
Look up a word or show the meaning of a word that you selected in the book.

Did you like this book?

Students have the option to rate the book
on a 5-star scale and share their thoughts
about the book with a 140-character
review. Faculty can publish student
reviews so other readers can view.

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Literacy tools
Students can
use a variety of
literacy tools to
annotate directly
on the pages of Tools
books within To use the tools, open
the myON library. a book and click on the
tools icon. This will
provide students
Brush Shapes access to all of their
Used to mark areas of the page. literacy tools.
For drawing in the book using a paintbrush.

Arrow
Highlighter Used to point out areas of the page.
For highlighting text on the page being read.

Eraser
Sticky Notes Used to erase other items the student has added to the page,
For creating and editing sticky notes on the such as brush marks, highlighting, shapes, lines, and arrows.
page being read. Students move the pin to (Sticky notes are deleted using the trash icon in the note.)
where they want the note and then click to
create one. Then they can enter text. In the
Delete
note, students can click the button to
choose a different icon for the top of the note to Opens a menu to choose the item(s) you want
show what kind of comment the student is making, such as a removed from the page or the entire book.
question or something the student wants the teacher to look at.
Color
Sets the color for items you add to the page, including the brush,
highlighter, shapes, lines, arrows, and sticky notes.
Journal
Opens the Journal for making entries about the current book.

Enables you to copy text from the book. This is not

available for books that do not include audio.

Enables you to add a citation. It automatically adds

the information from the book along with a date.
Journal
Starts a new journal entry. Previous entries are
To use the journal,
listed on the left, where you can select them to
open a book and click
open them.
on the journal icon.
This allows students to
Deletes the open journal entry.
make entries about the
current book.
Closes the journal.

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Student assessment

Book Quiz
Students can demonstrate their
knowledge of the books they read.
After a book is completed, students
are prompted to take a quiz. The
quizzes include five questions
randomized from a pool of twelve.
The quizzes are optional
based on faculty preferences
and can be turned
on or off.

Benchmark Assessment
After finishing 5 books or
completing 3 hours of reading in
a 14-day window, students are
prompted to take a benchmark test.
These tests will update student
Lexile® levels and books within the
student recommended tab will
change based on
the results.

Prompt
Students will click on
the envelope (when
present), in the upper left
corner of their landing page
when it’s time for them to
take a benchmark
assessment.

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Student profile
Students can click on the
account tab to view their
specific reading activity,
avatar options, as well
as update their interest
inventory, monitor their
individual reading growth,
Interests
and view journal entries.
Students have the
ability to update
reading interests
at any time.
Lexile®
Monitor reading
growth by
accessing the
Lexile®
progress.
Activity
Quickly access
previously read
books and
view reading
activity.

Journal
Access reading
journal entries and
see all corresponding
notes and
citations.

Portfolio Profile
Avatar
View completed Students can
Students can
projects and revisit access information
personalize their
any previous on their individual
accounts with a
essays. student reading
profile image.
activity.

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Recommended titles

Pre-K–5
myON recommends books that
are just right for students based
on current Lexile® levels matched
to their reading interests. Scroll
to the right within any of the
sections to see more titles and
scroll down to see all of the
recommended categories.

Edit your interests

Learners can click here at any time to
change or update how much they like a
particular book category.

Top Picks
myON knows what individual readers like!
Books in this section are within the
learner’s current Lexile® range and
matched to their grade level and interests.

New Books
myON adds new books every few weeks!
Books in this section have recently been
added to the system and match each
learner’s grade and Lexile® level.

Books Popular in your Grade

This section includes the most popular
books in the learner’s grade level
matched to their Lexile® level.

Because You Like...

Learners can easily find more books
about topics and categories that interest
them. Books in this section are matched
to topics they like within their Lexile® level.
Scroll down to choose different categories.

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Recommended titles

Grades 6
and Up
myON recommends books that
are just right for students based
on current Lexile® levels matched
to their reading interests. Scroll
to the right within any of the
sections to see more titles and
scroll down to see all of the
recommended categories.

Edit your interests

Learners can click here at any time to
change or update how much they like a
particular book category.

Top Picks
myON knows what individual readers like!
Books in this section are within the
learner’s current Lexile® range and
matched to their grade level and interests.

New Books
myON adds new books every few weeks!
Books in this section have recently been
added to the system and match each
learner’s grade and Lexile® level.

Books Popular in your Grade

This section includes the most popular
books in the learner’s grade level
matched to their Lexile® level.

Because You Like...

Learners can easily find more books
about topics and categories that interest
them. Books in this section are matched
to topics they like within their Lexile® level.
Scroll down to choose different categories.

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