Parent Training and Learning Video - Program Walkthrough (For Home) – Bright Islands CoCo — Help Centre

[VIMEO VIDEO]

Bright Islands Complete Comprehension (CoCo) is a comprehensive resource that allows you to identify and teach key reading comprehension strategies. The IDENTIFY module is the assessment component, and the INSTRUCT module is the instruction component. The INSTRUCT module provides precise instruction and practice with the strategies that your child needs to master in order to achieve reading success.

STEP 1
Adaptive & Repetitive Placement Testing: A Placement Test is pre-set when a Child account is created. The Intelligent Placement option will intelligently allocate the beginning placement level for the children based on their year of birth and any data from their previous reading levels (you do not need to manually direct your children to take a Placement Test).

Before your children take their Placement Test, if you know that your children have learning differences, you can change the initial placement level lower than the recommended one. For more information on reviewing and changing the child's recommended placement level, click here.

How to Administer the Placement Test: When your children log in, they will be immediately directed to the Placement Centre to have their reading comprehension assessed. The adaptive and repetitive Placement Centre tests individual children’s comprehension levels and place them in the appropriate IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT reading level.

If you think you already have an idea of what each child’s reading level should be, you can let them skip the Placement Test and directly assign an individual reading level for them to begin on. For more information on manually assigning a reading level, please click here.

Once your children have completed their Placement Tests, an IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT reading level will be automatically created for them. Your children should remain in their designated IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT reading level for the entire school year, and not be stretched beyond their abilities.

STEP 2
Diagnose with BI: IDENTIFY: Once assigned an IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT reading level, your children can start working on IDENTIFY Pretests. Administer the five Pretests in the IDENTIFY module using Bright Islands CoCo to diagnose strengths and weaknesses in the 12 reading comprehension strategies. After your children complete their Pretests, review their IDENTIFY: Child Summary Report (Pretest) and Child Reading Strategy Performance Report.

If you would like to reset the reading level for your children, please see Reset the Reading Level (IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT Modules).

STEP 3
Teach with BI: INSTRUCT: After completing Pretest diagnostics, six specific strategy INSTRUCT lessons based on the child's areas of need will be automatically recommended for the child to complete in order to remediate areas that need reinforcement. Once all six specific strategy lessons are completed, review the INSTRUCT: Child Lesson Performance Report.

More Practice with BI: INTERVENE: INTERVENE is a new module for children needing more practice in six core reading comprehension strategies. This module is designed for flexibility. It can complement the IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT modules, or be used as a standalone program at any time to provide concentrated practice for children. If your children are using the IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT module: Once they have completed their five IDENTIFY Pretests and you are certain they are on the right level for their ability, you are ready to assign them an INTERVENE reading level. Your children's INTERVENE reading level should always parallel their IDENTIFY & INSTRUCT reading level. Children will be assigned up to three specific reading strategies will be automatically recommended for them in INTERVENE. These recommended lessons can be used as additional practice in the reinforcement and understanding of the recommended strategies.

You may provide explicit instruction in the recommended strategies with the help of the Teaching Guides. Teaching Guides for all reading levels are accessible from the left-hand side navigation menu in your parent portal. For more information on accessing your children’s profile page and various reports, click here.

STEP 4
Progress Monitoring: Benchmarking: Throughout the year, children can be benchmarked with five Learning Checkpoints to monitor their progress. These tests provide practice in applying multiple reading strategies within a passage. Once all five Learning Checkpoints tests are completed, review the IDENTIFY: Child Summary Report (Benchmark).

Teach with BI: INSTRUCT: Finish the remaining strategy lessons to build and reinforce the child’s basic knowledge of reading strategies. After children complete the 12 lessons and four review lessons, they will begin the final review that provides practice in all 12 reading strategies. Once all the strategy lessons are completed, review the INSTRUCT: Child Lesson Performance Report.

STEP 5
Assess mastery with BI: IDENTIFY: Upon completion of the INSTRUCT lessons and Final Review, use Bright Islands CoCo to administer the five Post Tests in the same way you administered the five Pretests. Then, review the IDENTIFY: Child Summary Report (Post Test & Overall) and IDENTIFY: Child Reading Strategy Performance Report.

You may download a copy of our program guide with the attachment link provided below,

https://www.brightislands.com/s/Program-Guide-Using-Bright-Islands-Complete-Comprehension-in-Your-Home.pdf