Speak Agent Gives You the Tools to Implement Elementary Math Teaching Best Practices Using Academic Language
Math+Language℠ K-5 is both a teaching tool and a platform for student engagement. It helps students to master key academic concepts and to develop critical math communication and reasoning skills. It adds listening, speaking, reading, writing, and visual supports that are missing pieces in this new world of distance learning. How? By seamlessly integrating multimodal academic language activities, real-world math stories, reading and writing scaffolds, and tools for students to create and share their own math problems. All Speak Agent content maps to your existing elementary math curriculum. It's easy to implement and has been shown to be impactful with a dosage of as little as 30 minutes per week.
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Word Gallery is a great way to visually introduce new math concepts to your class. Present it to the class on a projector or by screen sharing in Zoom. Or, students can use it as a digital word wall!
Math reading passages in Speak Agent, such as this Read Along, serve as a focal point for classroom discourse. All student responses are captured in the digital portfolio.
The digital portfolio stores open-ended responses, writing samples, voice recordings, and creative projects.
Diagram It! provides opportunities to review, label, and explain diagrams in writing or recorded speech. Writing and speaking activities in Speak Agent capture student work samples in a digital portfolio, providing actionable data.
Math Puzzle Maker enables students (gr. 3+) to create math puzzles for their peers to solve. Students can then compare answers with the puzzle creator.
Story-based activities like Tall Tales use context clues to develop comprehension of the material.
Scrambled Sentences builds comprehension by breaking math explanations and stories into smaller chunks that young students can more readily decode and process.
Modules and Standards
Math+Language K-5 consists of easy-to-implement modules that can be aligned to fit your scope, sequence, and pacing.
Program Support
Speak Agent embeds academic language supports into your Tier 1 instruction to meet the needs of all students. Marginalized learners, including multilingual, Title I, and students with learning differences, particularly benefit from Speak Agent's research-based, multimodal instructional strategies. These provide learning scaffolds that help students make connections to background knowledge, master complex concepts, and acquire the expressive language needed to communicate both verbally and in writing with precision and confidence.