Study Island

As I enter into my classroom and began to put my bags down and take off my coat I alway hear, "Good Morning Mr. Walker, Can I get on Study Island?" Can I get on study Island? The question I hear all day long but I love to hear it. Study Island is a program the elementary school I work at purchased last year. It is a study site for the students to log onto and practice different skills they have learned or currently learning in class. Imagine taking all your workbooks and practice questions and problems and putting them on to your computer.

Study Island is not only practice problem but also has tutorials for students to review when they become stuck on a problem. Study Island has so many components that make it so attractive to teachers. The program has a required pretest and post test and calculates the data that is available at a click of a button. All of the subjects are incorporated into Study Island and most importantly they are aligned with Georgia State Standards. Another great feature is email. Teachers can send out mass email to he/her classes with different assignments and get feedback from students. I receive questions about how to complete problems and asking me to repeat instruction on something they didn't get in class but was scared to say it.


The ultimate feature that kids love about Study Island are the games on the program. Study Island has games that students play during their question answer section. But students have to take some responsibility and ownership for their learning so it has a shut off feature and also a baseline score can be set to turn the games off or on automatically according to a students performance. This counter act situations where students will just choose any response to just play the games. So we both win in the end. My students love it and so do I.