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SmartyAnts

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Product Details

Overview
Foundational Literacy Adaptive Practice Grades PreK–2

Smarty Ants is a game-based foundational-literacy program now associated with McGraw Hill’s Achieve3000 portfolio. It is designed primarily for preschool through early-elementary learners, including developing and multilingual readers, with young students, classroom teachers, reading specialists, and families using it to support phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and early comprehension.

Students progress through animated lessons, songs, stories, and practice while educators review early-literacy performance and usage. The product should be evaluated for the specific learners, instructional setting, and intensity of support a district intends—not simply as another source of digital activities.

Student Data Privacy
Review the Common Sense Privacy Rating:
N/A

SmartyAnts Privacy Policy:
https://www.mheducation.com/privacy.html

Signed California Student Data Privacy Agreement?
No

Features
Audience and instructional role
  • Grades / learners: preschool through early-elementary learners, including developing and multilingual readers
  • Primary users: young students, classroom teachers, reading specialists, and families
  • Learning focus: phonological awareness, phonics, word recognition, fluency, vocabulary, and early comprehension — a game-based foundational-literacy program now associated with McGraw Hill’s Achieve3000 portfolio
How it supports learning
  • Students progress through animated lessons, songs, stories, and practice while educators review early-literacy performance and usage.
  • Teachers should use the product within a defined instructional model rather than treat activity completion as evidence of learning.
Implementation and instructional decisions
  • Verify current ownership, product URL, grade coverage, and whether the district still licenses Smarty Ants as a standalone program.
  • Districts should confirm accessibility, language support, student-data practices, assignment workflow, reporting, and the role of teacher judgment.
Interoperabilty
Support Options
  • Email
  • On-Site
  • Phone
  • Web
Smarty Ants is an effective, research-driven solution that differentiates instruction in foundational reading skills and accelerates student achievement – all in an engaging, interactive, online learning environment.

Smarty Ants is an effective, research-driven solution that differentiates instruction in foundational reading skills and accelerates student achievement – all in an engaging, interactive, online learning environment.

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School Districts that use this:

5 California school districts are currently associated with this product in the SDLA database.

Data comes from SDLA district surveys, public records, vendor information, and ongoing review.