Game Changers

Game Changers is a comprehensive library of concise, fun-to-play web games, each targeted to a specific early literacy curriculum objective. In partnership with the Success for All Foundation, Sirius Thinking is combining these games into playlists with short, highly entertaining videos from Between the Lions that provide instruction in the exact same educational goals; and is updating the innovative Media Web Portal tool we developed for Reading Between the Lions, Reading Roots, 5th edition to make these games available to early literacy students in the classroom and at home, at precisely the right moment to reinforce their learning. The Portal will also track kids’ successes (or failures) on each targeted game, whether they play it in class, after school, in a tutoring session, or at home. All components have been designed to work on any platform, including tablets, laptops, and smartphones. The main intended users will be kindergarten and first grade teachers and students (and their parents) in elementary schools, especially those that receive Title I funding.   

If our R & D effort proves successful, we plan to offer this library of curriculum-targeted game-and-video playlists as a new, fully-integrated component of SFA’s research-proven Reading Between the Lions first-grade classroom program, and then to make it available as a self-contained supplementary literacy program, Game Changers, to schools not currently using Success for All resources. For the non-SFA version, we will partner with First Book, who will help guide the iterative refinement of our offerings by surveying the large segment of literacy educators among its 550,000+ members who serve low-income children in our target age group. and later plan to make our program available to its membership through its not-for-profit First Book Marketplace

We are grateful to the US Department of Education for providing initial funding for this exciting project.

Click above to watch a Game Changers demo.