Online Materials

How instructors and students use the on-screen instructional materials during a Once session.

Overview

In order to provide Once instruction, each day an instructor and a student sit in front of a laptop computer. The instructional materials are on the screen. The student focuses on the student pane, which is the left portion of the screen. The instructor focuses on the instructor pane, which is the right portion of the screen and is where the instructor can see the complete script.

There are 200 cycles in the Once curriculum. We call each lesson a cycle because all of the instructional content is carefully spiraled. Each student moves through Once at that student’s own pace. On average, kindergarteners complete a little less than one cycle per session. If they receive 140 sessions in the school year (~80% of school days), students will be well beyond Cycle 100 and well above grade level in reading.

Examples

Each cycle is divided into five to ten tasks covering sound introduction and review, segmenting, blending, rhyming, word reading, non-phonetic words, story reading, finger tracking, and writing. Three example cycles to review:

  • Cycle 10
  • Cycle 85
  • Cycle 200
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