Reading Adventures EBLI Lite 1.3

Overview

The lite version of EBLI Island offers an introduction to the EBLI instructional methodology, specifically designed to enhance early reading skills through engaging activities embedded in two stories. The full version provides access to over 16 stories and a wealth of interactive activities aimed at fostering beginning reading and more advanced literacy skills. Below is an overview of the app's features:

EBLI's initial app caters to early readers, starting as young as age 3, accommodating up to six children simultaneously. The interactive environment of EBLI Island invites children to explore a series of research-based reading activities that embody the innovative EBLI instructional approach. Parents and educators will appreciate the effectiveness of EBLI’s multi-sensory teaching model, which facilitates a significant acceleration in reading development.

Set on EBLI Island, learners embark on an adventure that requires completion of various activities across 16 stories to collect secret powered gems and unlock EBLI characters. The app focuses on teaching letter sounds through word instruction and transitions into sentence reading. Proper letter formation is reinforced through Peterson Handwriting prompts. Additionally, motivational rewards encourage continued engagement as children navigate the activities.

The EBLI app encompasses several core activities designed to teach key early reading skills, including:

• Say and Pull
• Peterson Handwriting
• Fluency Training

The progression of story complexity allows for consistent skill and concept reinforcement, enabling learners to expand upon previously acquired knowledge as they advance through the series.

Skills and Concepts

The skills and concepts addressed in EBLI Reading Adventures for Beginning Readers comprise:

Skills

• Segmenting: isolating individual sounds
• Blending: combining sounds to form words
• Peterson Handwriting: mastering correct letter formation
• Fluency: achieving smooth and expressive reading

Concepts

• Understanding that words are constructed from sounds
• Learners are taught common spellings associated with each sound
• Reading directionality: left to right
• Writing directionality: top to bottom and left to right
• Recognizing that one sound may be represented by one to four letters
• The necessity of repetition for accuracy and automaticity in reading
• A gradual transition towards fluent reading while maintaining word accuracy

About EBLI

The EBLI System

Founded in 2003, Evidence-Based Literacy Instruction (EBLI) is a comprehensive system designed to help individuals of all ages and abilities unlock their full potential in reading. The program has been successfully implemented in over 200 schools and continues to evolve through extensive training for thousands of educators, tutors, and remedial specialists. Rooted in research-backed methods essential for effective literacy instruction, EBLI is the result of more than a decade of hands-on experience with diverse learners at the Ounce of Prevention Reading Center in Flushing, MI.