Teachers can use ReadaFun to differentiate instruction by organizing their students into small groups. This feature is particularly useful for classes containing students of varying reading levels. Once students are organized into groups, teachers can customize the reading and response goals for each group. Students will not know to which group they have been assigned, but will see their group's specific reading and response goals on their ReadaFun profile. Regardless of group assignment, all students in a class will still be able to view and interact with all of their classmates.
To organize students into small groups, teachers must first create groups and then add students to the groups.
To create a group:
- Log in to your teacher account.
- Click Student Roster from the center of your dashboard.
- Scroll down to the class you'd like to arrange in separate groups.
- Click on the gear symbol next to the class name. An Edit Class box will appear.
- Click on Groups Settings and then click the blue Create a new group link.
- Enter a group name and then label the group by selecting a color and symbol.
- Click the green Create Group button.
- Repeat the steps above to create additional groups for your class(es).
Once you've created groups, you'll be able to add your students to these groups. Please note that student groups cannot span across multiple classes.
To add students to a group:
- Log in to your teacher account.
- Click Student Roster from the center of your dashboard.
- Select the student(s) you'd like to add to a group by clicking the checkbox in the upper right corner of their student card.
- Once your students are selected, select Group Students from the menu bar at the bottom of the screen.
- Select the desired group from the Assign drop-down menu and double check that you've selected the correct students.
- Click the green Group Students button.
- After your students have been grouped, their group's symbol will be displayed in the upper left corner of their student cards.