IXL-Jonathan+Guyre

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 * OVERVIEW**

IXL is an online curricular practice tool students can access at home or at school for a minimal registration fee. This particular site offers extensive practice of mathematical and language arts skills that align with the Common Core Standards. The most important feature of IXL is that students can work at their own pace, if a concept or skill is challenging for a student, the program differentiates the questions asked. Thus, students are encouraged to keep practicing a certain skill, instead of following a lock step set of questions. Furthermore, IXL offers students "rewards" for their time and mastery of skills adding a game-like element to the program. IXL offers many usual tools for educators as well. Teachers can assign certain concepts or skills for students to practice, and receive alerts of how each student did on the questions. Also, the site offers easy to read bar graphs and pie charts to track the progress of individual students as well as the entire class as a whole. This feature makes goal setting and data collection easy and accessible for both teacher and student. In conclusion, IXL is an excellent resource to help students practice various math and language arts skills in order to track their success.
 * How to Use IXL**

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 * How to effectively and easily implement IXL in the classroom**

Educators can easily and effectively incorporate IXL in their instruction without having to reinvent the wheel. This website supports practice of skills already taught. After teaching a whole group lesson in math or language arts, find the skill on IXL and assign IXL skills instead or in addition to worksheets. If technology is not readily available to all students at once, then set up IXL as a center during math or reading block. Take a trip to your school's computer lab, and assign two or three essential skills previously taught, for the students to practice. Use the progress monitoring graphs to help identify math or language art skills to reteach as whole group or in small groups. IXL can also be incorporated to help reteach skills after quizes or tests. Students can identify what skills they struggled with, the go to IXL as extra reinforcement of those skills. IXL can be used on the smart board as a whole class practice session if Ipads and computers are not readily available. IXL takes no extra effort to incorporate this amazing practice tool into daily instruction, it can be as simple as replacing one or two worksheets a week with this worthwhile educational tool!