Scholastic F.I.R.S.T., an adventure on Ooka Island, secures the foundational reading skills needed for students in Grades PreK–2, creating automatic, fluent readers with strong comprehension.
Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. transforms teaching foundational reading skills by breaking the process down into thousands of micro-actions—6,695 to be exact. With an instructionally robust methodology and highly adaptive technology, Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. actively personalizes each student’s path toward reading proficiency.
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Built on Dr. Kay MacPhee’s proven, research-based concepts, Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. explicitly teaches phonemic awareness and systematically introduces more complex phonological skills—so decoding becomes effortless and students can focus on comprehension. Dive into the research to learn more about F.I.R.S.T.'s highly effective foundational reading skills program.
Explore the ResearchScholastic F.I.R.S.T. makes data easily accessible and actionable for educators at every level. The richest and most impactful metrics are delivered in real time for each student, class, and school, while district-level reports are rolled up daily—giving educational leaders full insight to meet their critical reading goals.
When you go to Ooka Island you learn all the sounds so you can learn how to make new words and read new books. I’m really good at F.I.R.S.T. and I like it a lot.
Luke - Grade 1, Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. Graduate
Being highly adaptive means seamlessly supporting all students throughout their early reading journey. With three levels of adaptability—immediate scaffolding, adaptations to pacing, and more complex interventions—Scholastic F.I.R.S.T.'s continuous formative assessment pinpoints the precise moment, and the right type of intervention, to help a student succeed.
See the Adaptivity in ActionConnecting reading to the home and family has a significant lifelong impact. Purposefully designed to be equitable for outside-of-school access, Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. can be used anytime, anywhere, and on any device. Using their personalized account, students pick up wherever they left off, continuing to make measurable progress on their Ooka Island adventure.
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Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. is eligible for a number of funding opportunities and grants.
Scholastic F.I.R.S.T. is accessible on multiple browsers and devices, in and out of school, 24/7.
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