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The StepsWeb Course offers a time-efficient and cost-effective structured literacy approach, which is proven to develop students’ processing skills and cognitive efficiency.
StepsWeb provides a comprehensive literacy program for your entire school, with automatic analysis of each student's level and needs.
StepsWeb equips teachers with ready-made resources to enhance core literacy skills and to transform your learners into confident spellers and enthusiastic readers.
While the Course itself offers excellent independent, student-driven learning, additional teaching resources are available and are especially effective for face-to-face instruction.
The data gathered from StepsWeb also provides teachers with an indication of what level of reinforcement each student needs, and in what areas.
Once students are placed onto the Course, they progress at their individual level and speed. They work through a series of engaging activities which are designed to improve phonological awareness, phonic knowledge, reading fluency, vocabulary and comprehension.
The Course also includes reading passages, grammar, and maths terminology. For best results, we encourage educators to ensure their learners are completing their weekly goals.
As learners progress through the online Course, they are constantly being monitored. The programme will automatically assign them extra reinforcement for words that require more practice before moving forward.
This can also be demonstrated by the Circular Progression model where words, patterns, sounds, and concepts are taught, practised, checked and, if necessary, reinforced.
The educational content within StepsWeb is based upon structured literacy principles. As such, StepsWeb provides a research-proven tool for teachers, which improves their ability to effectively teach their whole class, including struggling and dyslexic learners. StepsWeb enables all students to become successful readers and spellers.
More and more schools are using StepsWeb as their primary literacy programme across the whole school.
StepsWeb automatically does the hard work for you. That means teachers no longer have to set or mark weekly spelling tests, are no longer continually uploading student data and can feel confident that their material will suit every student's literacy level. Teachers can also customise StepsWeb as much, or as little as they want.
As well as the structured literacy Course, StepsWeb contains thousands of individual wordlists, covering spelling patterns and rules, prefixes, suffixes, grammar, word study, word families, topics and much more! It’s easy for teachers to find and assign additional wordlists for specific purposes, including lists they’ve created themselves.
There are also Supporting Activity and Games sections, with a wide range of activities to reinforce phonological awareness, phonic knowledge, memory skills, verbal reasoning and even common knowledge, such as alphabet sequencing or months of the year.
"I am very impressed with the progress my students are experiencing as a result of using StepWeb as a classroom resource.
As a teacher, I appreciate the individuality of the lessons and how they are tailored to my student's needs, the structure of the lessons, how they build on previous knowledge, and the level of mastery required for a student to move on."