The Learning Path is at the heart of ABCmouse 2.0, offering a step-by-step guided learning experience tailored to each child’s age and grade level skills. The Learning Path offers children sequential lessons in reading, math, science, and more, ensuring that they build foundational skills at an appropriate pace. This article explains how the Learning Path works, and how to personalize it so it best suits your child.
Learning Path Changes
Please note that while most users will experience a single, integrated Learning Path that combines reading, math, and other subjects, some started using the program when it offered two separate Learning Paths, one of Math and one for Reading. If you still have separate Reading and Math Learning Paths, your experience remains the same. However, if you see only one Learning Path, this is expected behavior for your account. Information is provided below for both versions of the Learning Path(s).
How the Learning Path Works
For Users with a Single Learning Path
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Your child will have a single, integrated Learning Path that includes reading, math, and other subjects.
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Activities are designed to introduce a balanced mix of subjects, ensuring progress across multiple areas of learning.
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The Learning Path automatically adjusts based on your child’s progress to provide a well-rounded educational experience.
Can I Switch Between These Experiences?
At this time, the ability to switch between separate and combined Learning Paths is not available within the app. However, if you strongly prefer the previous experience, please contact Customer Support to see if adjustments can be made on the back end.
For Users with Separate Reading and Math Learning Paths
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Your child will have two Learning Paths: one for Reading and one for Math.
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Each Learning Path progresses independently, meaning your child can work at different levels for reading and math.
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Your child can switch between paths as needed to focus on specific subjects.
The new ABCmouse 2.0 offers two Learning Paths: a Reading Learning Path and a Math Learning Path. Having separate paths for Math and Reading lets children focus on specific skills and concepts in each subject area and allows parents to adjust the grade level for subjects independently.
Located at the top of The ABCmouse Classroom section of the app, each Learning Path is an interactive and engaging roadmap designed to guide children, step by step, through a curated sequence of learning activities, selected by our team of curriculum experts, that help children reach important educational milestones for the subject.
On each Path, children progress on their Level and move up to higher Levels by completing "Adventures," essentially Lessons (like Multi-Syllable Decoding) within a chosen "theme" (like People At Work or Health Habits).
Each Adventure/Lesson consists of a number of activities followed by a "Show What You Know" quiz, so the child can review what has been covered and interested parents can see how their child is doing and whether the grade level is appropriate. Progress within each Adventure is tracked by the left to right progress, from dot to dot to dot, of the yellow and red circle (shown in the top-right of the following screenshot).
The level of difficulty on the each Learning Path is initially guided by the age selected for each child. But parents can adjust the Reading Grade Level and Math Grade Level independently from program’s Settings section at any time. Many children are more advanced in one subject than the other, so having independent grade level controls allows for a more personalized and effective learning experience that honors the whole child.
All children, regardless of their age or grade, begin at Level 1 for their Learning Path, but Level 1 for a 4-year-old or Pre-K grade setting will be much simpler than Level 1 for a 7-year-old or 1st grade setting.
Important: Changing the Grade Level for the Learning Path will reset the child’s progress on that path. This allows them to begin fresh and explore the new level from the start, ensuring that they haven't missed essential parts of the curriculum.