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Voyager Sopris Learning ® is the specialist in reading, writing, and math intervention.

Fully focused on intervention, Voyager Sopris Learning has established four decades of results that demonstrate the efficacy of its solutions. Providing a holistic offering of reading, writing, and math interventions and assessments, these solutions help educators create strong, sustainable foundations to ensure academic success.

Voyager Sopris Learning has thoughtfully developed blended, face-to-face, and online practice programs that work together to support flexible, teacher-led instruction and personalized learning paths to meet the unique learning needs of students of all abilities.

Voyager Sopris Learning is part of  Lexia ® , a Cambium Learning Group brand. As part of Lexia, a leader in literacy and language solutions, Voyager Sopris Learning offers a complementary portfolio of reading and math intervention products that together provide a robust offering of solutions that meet the diverse needs of the growing education market. 

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LANGUAGE! Live ® is a comprehensive literacy and reading intervention solution designed to significantly improve literacy skills.

Voyager Passport ® is a reading intervention program designed to accelerate reading achievement for K-6 learners.

The Acadience Suite provides reliable, research-based literacy and math assessment solutions for PreK-6 students.

LANGUAGE! ® is an intensive, comprehensive literacy curriculum proven to accelerate growth for grade 4–12 students who are substantially below grade-level expectations.

Read Well ® is a comprehensive, research-based solution that helps K-3 students build critical reading and language arts skills.

Reading Rangers is an online practice solution for K–5 students, designed to strengthen foundational reading skills, improve vocabulary, and increase fluency for improved comprehension.

REWARDS ® is a powerful research-based, short-term, specialized program for grade 4–12 students who struggle reading long words and comprehending content-area text.

Step Up to Writing ® is unparalleled online writing instruction for K-12 students.

TransMath ® is a comprehensive math intervention curriculum for grade 6-12 students who lack the foundational skills necessary for entry into algebra and/or who are two or more years below grade level in math.

Vmath ® is a targeted math intervention program that provides critical math skills for struggling students in grades 2–8.

VmathLive ® is an online math learning tool for K–8 students, designed to help them master math content at their own pace.

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What is Language! Live and How Can It Help Your Students?

Language! Live curriculum can help students improve their literacy abilities when struggling.

Language! Live is a curriculum-based intervention that can help students improve their literacy when struggling. It is aimed at students in grades 5 to 12 and uses a blended approach to language and literacy education.

The Language! Live program, from Voyager Sopris, is built for both in-person and remote use, and works across multiple formats so students can learn both in the class and from home using a digital device.

The goal is to accelerate struggling students to grade-level proficiency in a relatively short amount of time. It does this by using research-based and structured literacy instruction. Using both teacher-led instructions and text-training practice, students can progress quickly and effectively in literacy learning.

Language! Live was developed by Louisa Moats, Ed.D. who is an internationally renowned literacy expert. She has authored many scientific journal articles, books, and policy papers on reading, spelling, language, and teacher preparation.

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How Does Language! Live work?

This program starts students where they are and allows them to work on their own but also with teachers on such topics as rereading and close activities supported by print materials and ebooks.

Both students and teachers have dashboards to organize and track their progress. Teachers can see each student’s time on task, items completed, and class targets. A robust integrated assessment system keeps teachers advised of student progress in the program. 

Teachers can also find all program tools and resources (both online and print) at their fingertips. On their dashboards, students see all of their assignments, class pages, and their own avatar that they can embellish as they earn points.

This program is an excellent use of online word training that is available at each student’s level. Interactive lessons, certificates, and avatars as ongoing incentives are available, as well as the ability to do online recording. There is even a class page that incorporates social media traits such as online feedback, newsfeeds, and weekly point totals. 

Student data is available for teachers to have instant information on their students. An interactive library, complete with online texts, includes video and audio enhancements.

How Effective is Language! Live?

This program is what every adolescent with reading deficits and their teachers have been waiting for. Many schools have adolescent students who are struggling readers, missing vital skills. This software provides a high-quality, research-based program that is specifically targeted to the adolescent population reading two or more years below grade level. 

Focused on middle school and high school students (grades 5-12) with reading-skill deficits who need a program that is presented at their age levels, the videos and interactive lessons are presented by students of their age group and with self-guided online word training.

Multiple entry points meet students where they are with both foundational and literacy skills to quickly move them up to grade level. The program also focuses on keeping them there when they do make it to grade level. 

It effectively combines word training online with teacher-led text training and uses standard Lexile scoring in assessments.

How Much Does Language! Live Cost?

Voyager Sopris has a selection of pricing options available , tailored for either student or teacher needs.

A student buying Language! Live will pay $109 for a one-year Levels 1 and 2 license, $209 for a two-year license also for Levels 1 and 2, $297 for three years, $392 for four, and $475 for five years.

A teacher will pay $895 for a Levels 1 and 2 one-year license, two years $975, three years $995, four years $1,015, and five years $1,035. 

The difference is that a teacher package includes the teacher dashboard, print materials, sound library, electronic teacher editions, additional resources, and a robust data-management system.

Is Language! Live Easy to Install?

This program is easily integrated into any classroom and backed up with data that is efficiently reported online. It also addresses skills in vocabulary, grammar, listening, and writing for a complete package. 

Teachers work with students on text lessons after they use the online resources for word work so that technology training and teacher interaction is combined. Additionally, PD for teachers and ongoing support is always available.

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NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact

On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally "phoned home" and updated its NASA operating team about its health.

NASA's interstellar explorer Voyager 1 is finally communicating with ground control in an understandable way again. On Saturday (April 20), Voyager 1 updated ground control about its health status for the first time in 5 months. While the Voyager 1 spacecraft still isn't sending valid science data back to Earth, it is now returning usable information about the health and operating status of its onboard engineering systems. 

Thirty-five years after its launch in 1977, Voyager 1 became the first human-made object to leave the solar system and enter interstellar space . It was followed out of our cosmic quarters by its space-faring sibling, Voyager 2 , six years later in 2018. Voyager 2, thankfully, is still operational and communicating well with Earth. 

The two spacecraft remain the only human-made objects exploring space beyond the influence of the sun. However, on Nov. 14, 2023, after 11 years of exploring interstellar space and while sitting a staggering 15 billion miles (24 billion kilometers) from Earth, Voyager 1's binary code — computer language composed of 0s and 1s that it uses to communicate with its flight team at NASA — stopped making sense.

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In March, NASA's Voyager 1 operating team sent a digital "poke" to the spacecraft, prompting its flight data subsystem (FDS) to send a full memory readout back home.

This memory dump revealed to scientists and engineers that the "glitch" is the result of a corrupted code contained on a single chip representing around 3% of the FDS memory. The loss of this code rendered Voyager 1's science and engineering data unusable.

The NASA team can't physically repair or replace this chip, of course, but what they can do is remotely place the affected code elsewhere in the FDS memory. Though no single section of the memory is large enough to hold this code entirely, the team can slice it into sections and store these chunks separately. To do this, they will also have to adjust the relevant storage sections to ensure the addition of this corrupted code won't cause those areas to stop operating individually, or working together as a whole. In addition to this, NASA staff will also have to ensure any references to the corrupted code's location are updated.

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On April 18, 2024, the team began sending the code to its new location in the FDS memory. This was a painstaking process, as a radio signal takes 22.5 hours to traverse the distance between Earth and Voyager 1, and it then takes another 22.5 hours to get a signal back from the craft. 

By Saturday (April 20), however, the team confirmed their modification had worked. For the first time in five months, the scientists were able to communicate with Voyager 1 and check its health. Over the next few weeks, the team will work on adjusting the rest of the FDS software and aim to recover the regions of the system that are responsible for packaging and returning vital science data from beyond the limits of the solar system.

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• Robb62 'V'ger must contact the creator. Reply
• Holy HannaH! Couldn't help but think that "repair" sounded extremely similar to the mechanics of DNA and the evolution of life. Reply
• Torbjorn Larsson *Applause* indeed, thanks to the Voyager teams for the hard work! Reply
• SpaceSpinner I notice that the article says that it has been in space for 35 years. Either I have gone back in time 10 years, or their AI is off by 10 years. V-*ger has been captured! Reply

Admin said: On Saturday, April 5, Voyager 1 finally "phoned home" and updated its NASA operating team about its health. The interstellar explorer is back in touch after five months of sending back nonsense data. NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft finally phones home after 5 months of no contact : Read more

evw said: I'm incredibly grateful for the persistence and dedication of the Voyagers' teams and for the amazing accomplishments that have kept these two spacecrafts operational so many years beyond their expected lifetimes. V-1 was launched when I was 25 years young; I was nearly delirious with joy. Exploring the physical universe captivated my attention while I was in elementary school and has kept me mesmerized since. I'm very emotional writing this note, thinking about what amounts to a miracle of technology and longevity in my eyes. BRAVO!!! THANK YOU EVERYONE PAST & PRESENT!!!

• EBairead I presume it's Fortran. Well done all. Reply

SpaceSpinner said: I notice that the article says that it has been in space for 35 years. Either I have gone back in time 10 years, or their AI is off by 10 years. V-*ger has been captured!

EBairead said: I presume it's Fortran. Well done all.

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