The WordFlyers Effect

Who uses WordFlyers? Teacher program usage

Once a week

3700 Teachers Twice a week

70 000 Students Once a fortnight

Since July 2017 Over 3.4

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with their students for
30-45 minutes per session

Teacher satisfaction

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2. Engagement 80%

70%
Reading comprehension: 86%

93%
60%
Vocabulary/Spelling: 88%

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Grammar: 87%

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 WordFlyers and NAPLAN
How WordFlyers improves schools’ NAPLAN results

82% of teachers find the

NAPLAN*-style
questions in WordFlyers great for
Maronite College, NSW
The NAPLAN*-style exercises are invaluable in
helping teachers to target specific areas of need and
their teaching we use the texts to refine students’ skills in those areas.

Burwood Girls High School, NSW

2/3 of teachers agree
that WordFlyers has
positively contributed to their
Happily, from recent NAPLAN results, we’ve seen a
significant improvement in students’ literacy skills. In
particular, students’ results in reading, spelling and
students’ NAPLAN results grammar have strongly improved from 2015 to 2017.
WordFlyers has made a difference in our school.

How schools use WordFlyers

How schools are using WordFlyers
How teachers use WordFlyers Woodcroft College, SA
In SA, Woodcroft College use WordFlyers with Year 8
students as part of whole-class lessons, and to help
Homework 46% specific students build their literacy skills.

Revision Maronite College, NSW

33% Maronite College use WordFlyers as a valuable tool to
check, reflect upon and maintain students’ skills in
Part of reading, writing and comprehending texts, including
whole-class 54% fiction and non-fiction. It allows students to realise where
lesson
their skills are the strongest and in which areas they
Bring need to improve. Similarly, teachers can see in ‘real
students up 34% time’ the exercises that students are completing, across
to standard a range of text types with varying levels of vocabulary
Whole-school extension.
literacy 43%
strategy
Mercedes Catholic College, SA
Challenge Mercedes College are currently using WordFlyers in
excelling 26% English but would now like to use it across different
students
curriculum areas and to also use it as a means of
gathering and tracking data.
Other 9%
Pittwater High School, NSW
10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% Pittwater High School use WordFlyers to support
selected students in making improvements in their basic
literacy. They are also trialling the use of WordFlyers
with an entire mixed ability class in Year 8 English in
Schools that use WordFlyers in order to determine whether the program can effectively
other subject areas support improvements in literacy across a broader
range of abilities.

McAuley Catholic College, NSW

WordFlyers used in other subjects
History Geography

21% 32% 39%

Warilla High School, NSW 8%
Science HPE/
PDHPE
Science History History
Geography

Geography PDHPE/HPE

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