What is Volcanic Panic Reading Success Online

Volcanic Panic Reading Success Online is a phonemic and text-based reading programme that harnesses the power of automated Adaptive Learning to build solid reading foundations and transform each student into a skilful, thoughtful reader. It automatically ensures that students are always working at their optimal learning level.

Volcanic Panic Reading Success comprehensively covers reading content from phonics, phonemics and sight words all the way to advanced vocabulary, comprehension and literary appreciation.

Unlock life’s treasures for Years K – 10

Children who are readers are more likely to learn independently, have vivid imaginations, write fluently and experience better emotional health, self-confidence and job success. Volcanic Panic Reading Success helps create avid readers, able to unlock life’s treasures through reading!

• Begins with basic knowledge and introduces new concepts to progress students at their own pace.
• Automatically ensures that each student is always working at their optimal learning level.
• Harnesses a wide variety of learning strategies and Question types to engage students.
• Hand-crafted and sequenced by experienced teachers.

Individualised learning

The design of Volcanic Panic Reading Success enables each student to progress at their own pace and at their own level.

• Enables teachers and students to choose the Reading Questions to be practised and then allows for repetition until mastery is achieved.
• Extends the gifted and supports those for whom learning to read is a struggle.

Created by highly experienced teachers

Through multiple iterations from floppy disk to CD and finally to Volcanic Panic Reading Success, it has been a journey of over 20 years. Our team of highly experienced teachers has produced a masterpiece!

Children learn best when they are having fun

The intrinsic and extrinsic motivators built into Volcanic Panic Reading Success engage and motivate students to build Reading skills.

• Carefully sequenced to build Reading ability step-by-step.
• Little-by-little as skills increase the questions get harder.
• The children are having so much fun they don’t even realise they are learning.

Intrinsic motivators

As students progress in their learning journey, Volcanic Panic Reading Success provides instant dynamic feedback reinforcing progress question by question. The intrinsic motivation is amplified through progress reports, attainments, certificates and more.

Massive upgrade

The new Online edition of Volcanic Panic combines the reading Questions from the BRAINtastic Reading Success CD and the game from the Volcanic Panic CD edition to form this revolutionary online reading system. It builds on the classic Volcanic Panic CD edition with significant enhancements that revolutionise its educative capacity.

• All the advantages of online delivery including instant availability of data, home and school access, and data security.
• Students playing the Volcanic Panic game are much less distracted as they now each complete Questions simultaneously from their own computer instead of taking turns on the one computer with up to 4 players.
• Features the revolutionary EdAlive Adaptive Learning System that automates each student’s progression and releases teachers from the need to monitor and adjust the work for each child.
• Questions are always automatically targeted to the needs of each student.
• Enhanced design has allowed the doubling of the frequency of Questions presented in the game without overloading the students.
• Integrated with EdAlive Central making administration incredibly easy.