Magpie
Research-based PK-8+ digital literacy games to help students master foundational reading skills and become confident, proficient readers.
Magpie's mission is to eradicate illiteracy through a set of digital literacy tools that leverage kids' unique characteristics to help kindergarden students develop reading skills.
Magpie's mission is to eradicate illiteracy through a set of digital literacy tools that leverage kids' unique characteristics to help kindergarden students develop reading skills.
Reading proficiency is disproportionately low among Black and Hispanic students, with only 18% of Black students and 23% of Hispanic students achieving proficiency in fourth grade
of students in the US read at grade level due to systemic inequities.
Letter formation
Sound-spelling correspondences
Vocabulary
Print Concepts
High-frequency words
Meaningful Reading Experiences
Magpie has launched a supplemental digital tool that can be used in schools year-round to support the reading development of Kindergarten students.
In 20+ minute sessions, students engage in developmentally appropriate instructional videos and educational games to address the key subcomponents of Kindergarten literacy: phonemic awareness, decoding and encoding, word chaining, letter formation, print concepts, high-frequency words, and meaningful reading experiences.
