187points
average Lexile gain across all students
Student Results
Growth you can read in a number.
Every result below is measured — not estimated, not felt. Lexile scores before and after the ELA Program. Real students. Real data. Names withheld by design.
Student results in numbers
94%
of students improved at least one full grade level
How we measure.
Before the first session, every student receives a Lexile estimate. At week 8 we review the book checks and worksheets. At week 16 we estimate again. The difference is the result.
How we assess →Long-Arc Proof
What 16-week cycles compound into.
A Canadian student started DODO at age 10. Three years later, at age 13, they sat the SSAT.
92percentile
SSAT Vocabulary
95percentile
SSAT Writing
Per-cycle Lexile deltas (below) are the proximate measure. SSAT percentiles are what those deltas compound into across three years of consistent enrollment.
580Lexile start
780after 16wks
+200 Lexile points — approximately one grade level of reading growth
Grade 6 — arrived in Canada 14 months prior
She started raising her hand in class around week ten. By the end she was the one asking the teacher follow-up questions.
Parent
640Lexile start
860after 16wks
+220 Lexile points — approximately one grade level of reading growth
Grade 7 — preparing for Canadian secondary school entry
I can actually argue a point now. Not just in English — I think differently.
Student
490Lexile start
670after 16wks
+180 Lexile points — approximately one grade level of reading growth
Grade 5 — family relocating to Vancouver from Shanghai
820Lexile start
1020after 16wks
+200 Lexile points — approximately one grade level of reading growth
Grade 8 — targeting top-tier US university pathway
The Navigator did not fix my writing. They changed how I read. The writing fixed itself.
Student
610Lexile start
800after 16wks
+190 Lexile points — approximately one grade level of reading growth
Grade 6 — bilingual household, Mandarin dominant
We chose DODO because we wanted the Lexile data. The confidence was the part we did not expect.
Parent
710Lexile start
920after 16wks
+210 Lexile points — approximately one grade level of reading growth
Grade 7 — Richmond BC, preparing for IB programme
How Writing Is Scored
Writing scores move because thinking moves.
Writing is scored on the skills of your child’s level: building sentences and paragraphs at the first levels, essay structure, style, grammar and usage at the upper ones. The scores are on every progress report, so you can see which skills are moving.
See a sample report →Why the numbers move
Lexile growth is a byproduct of cognitive training.
Students do not improve their Lexile score by practising Lexile tests. They improve by thinking more precisely — in both languages. The Loop is what causes the movement. The Loop is grounded in the MCT Language Arts tradition and Harvard Project Zero's Visible Thinking routines, delivered one-on-one by a Navigator with a degree from a world top-50 university.
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