Resources
The Leiamos platform organises its resources into four areas, to follow the child from assessment through to intervention.
Assessment tools
The platform assesses pre-reading skills, reading skills, and reading age at three points: initial assessment, mid-cycle assessment, and final assessment. Assessments follow the pace of the school year.
What the child already hears and tells apart in the sounds of words, before they can read.
How the child reads words and pseudowords: whether they can decode them alphabetically and orthographically.
The age the child's reading corresponds to, compared with the one expected for their age.
The Leiamos app produces reports for teachers, educators, and parents: monitoring and prescribing interventions, with specific information per child (parents) or per class (teacher/educator), pointing to intervention plans tailored to the needs identified.
The platform generates detailed reports indicating, for each skill, an intervention plan tailored to building up the weaker skills identified in the assessment.
Virtual setting
An interactive platform with games structured in increasing order of complexity, driven by an algorithm sensitive to each child's learning pace, with immediate feedback and a reward system.
Phonemic awareness in onset position
Every level has a fisherman (a frog, a seal… and the sound their name begins with). Fish swim past carrying pictures, and the child casts the hook at the ones starting with that same sound. Four right catches win the level.
Phonemic awareness in onset position
Six pictures in an album and, beside them, face-down cards. The child turns a card over and carries it to the picture starting with the same sound. Each match sticks the card to the page and plays the sound they share.
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Five pictures hang on a wall: four begin with the same sound and one does not. The child hears the odd one’s sound and drags it to the door. Seven rounds per level, and the sound changes each round.
Phonemic awareness in onset position
A lotto card with six pictures and two cards in play at a time. The child matches each card to the picture starting with the same sound. If they tap a card before dragging it, they’ll hear the card’s sound.
Phonemic awareness in onset position
A traveller (the rat, the seal, the lion…) is packing a bag. Out of six pictures, the child packs into the bag the ones starting with the same sound as their name. Each traveller has three stages, each dealing fresh cards.
Phonemic awareness in onset position
A word appears in parts and the child works out which sounds it is made of, choosing the pictures whose names start with each of those sounds, in the order they are heard.
Alphabetic decoding
Here the words appear in writing. A word is spoken (never shown in writing) and the child has ten seconds to find it on the card. If the spoken word isn’t on the bingo card, it goes in the bin. Nine hits make “Bingo!”.
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A chain of dominoes where each tile has a picture on one side and a word on the other. The child drags the tile that fits by sound to the end of the chain, and the chain grows both ways.
Real-world setting
Intervention happens in both virtual and real-world settings, building pre-reading and reading skills through structured activities: learning objectives, step-by-step procedures, and printable materials.
Training and ongoing support
The training and motivational component is essential to the effectiveness of the Leiamos Methodology. For each activity, objectives, procedures, and materials are provided in both written and video format.
Using the assessment and intervention tools, and reading and interpreting the reports.
Theoretical foundations, pedagogical approach, and the Leiamos intervention model.
Continuous support for teachers throughout the application of the Leiamos Methodology.
The eight games are on the app stores and can be tried today.
See the gamesWe walk through the assessment, the reports and the games in a session with your school or institution.
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