Keep the task and cue together.
Keep the task clear. Use a consistent color cue close to the information it relates to, with text and controls that remain meaningful without color.
How Glow’s practice activities work
Color cues
and repeated practice.
Glow combines consistent visual cues, answer recall and feedback. Learners revisit skills in the apps, on paper and with an adult.
Consistent visual cues
Stable colors
for numbers and words.
In our math app, each number group keeps its own color identity. In Sight Words, each word returns with a stable hue. These cues sit alongside readable numerals and letters.
Color helps give the practice a recognizable setting. The child still does the thinking—recalling the fact, reading the word, and finding the answer.
7+5=?
Take your time. What do you notice?
A glimpse of the Glow approach
How we put it into practice
Notice. Recall.
Try again.
Use visual cues when introducing a task, ask the learner to recall an answer, and revisit the skill without cues.
Ask learners to recall an answer.
Invite children to retrieve an answer, then give useful feedback. Familiarity is a beginning; producing an answer is a different kind of practice.
Revisit skills over time.
Return to previously taught skills in later sessions. Practice them in books, on paper and in everyday tasks as well as in the app.