While working through Istation’s early reading instruction, 2nd and 3rd graders encounter Flint Rockwell, a young gecko with a love of stories and a thirst for adventure. In our newest release, students accompany Flint Rockwell to the Fables Forest, where they will discover a host of characters and classic fables.

Students explore the Fables Forest map to engage with characters who present unique problems from the fables the appear in.

Readers interact with characters, read fables, and work through comprehension activities to unlock the characteristics of fables that make this genre unique. They can move Flint in all directions by using keyboard arrows or an on-screen reticle for tablets.

Students can see their progress in their student passbook.

Using information presented in text conversations between Flint and other characters, as well as the fables themselves, students will complete activities that reflect characteristics of the fables genre. As each characteristic is unlocked, it’s placed in the student’s passbook (pictured above).

In this menu, students select independent practice activities to play.

When students finish visiting with each character in Fables Forest, a mini-assessment checkpoint appears. Then students will see a menu full of independent practice activities to work through at their own pace and apply what they’ve learned. The unit wraps up with an exciting race between Flint and the hare from “The Tortoise and the Hare”!

Stay tuned for more Istation Reading updates!