Bellwether Media Joins Capstone Digital’s myON reader

May 7, 2012 - PRLog -- Capstone Digital, developer of personalized learning environments for students, announces a new partnership with Bellwether Media, publisher of educational materials for beginning and struggling readers, to extend the myON™ reader platform with the addition of 50 new titles from its Blastoff! Readers brand.

Leveled nonfiction for early readers in grades K-3, Blastoff! Readers have been praised by reviewers for their accessibility and bold, bright graphics and photography. The addition of Bellwether titles strengthens myON’s emergent reading and high-interest offerings allowing customers to expand their myON collection and meet the interests and Lexile® levels of students.

“With the addition of Bellwether titles, we’re able to engage more students in reading, specifically ELL, special education, and struggling readers. All of the Blastoff! Readers titles in myON will be narrated at a much slower speed for emerging and remedial readers. This is another example of how myON is personalized to each student’s unique reading abilities, as well as their interests,” said Todd Brekhus, President of Capstone Digital.

Currently, myON features more than 2,500 books from Capstone’s award-winning imprints: Capstone Press, Compass Point Books, Picture Window Books, Stone Arch Books, and Heinemann-Raintree, as well as from publishing partners Sylvan Dell and Saddleback Educational Publishing.

“The myON platform is a perfect fit for our early literacy Blastoff! Readers titles. With the addition of narration and text highlighting, myON allows us to present our titles in a brand new way that will really benefit students. We think it will be very successful in helping beginning and struggling readers achieve greater levels of fluency,” said John Martin, President of Bellwether Media, Inc.  

myON is a personalized literacy environment providing access to the largest integrated library of digital books with multimedia supports, customized to a student’s interest and reading ability. myON enables students to participate in anytime, anywhere reading, while rating and sharing their reviews with classmates, and allows them to take ownership in their own reading growth.  

Bellwether Media titles will meet the high standards of the myON digital book platform. The converted Bellwether Media digital books include all of the features of myON titles, such as highlighting, recorded audio, an online embedded dictionary, quizzes and Lexile® levels.

For more information on Capstone Digital’s myON reader, visit TheFutureinReading.com.

About Bellwether
Bellwether was founded in 2005 with the mission to improve beginning and struggling readers literacy skills through publishing engaging and accessible reading materials. Bellwether has evolved quickly from a small startup to become one of the nation's leading publishers of quality-bound literacy materials with over 500 titles available.  Among its brands includes Blastoff! Readers, Torque Books, and Pilot Books. Visit www.BellWetherMedia.com for more information.  

About Capstone Digital
Capstone Digital, a division of Capstone, develops personalized learning environments for students. Offerings include digital books, research databases and audio books, all designed to increase fluency and
reading levels for students of all levels. As the flagship product, myON reader provides access to the largest integrated library of digital books with multimedia supports. Using Capstone Digital products, students gain confidence in their abilities, take ownership in their reading growth, and achieve success across the curriculum. For more information, visit www.CapstoneDigital.com or www.TheFutureInReading.com.

About Capstone
Capstone is a leading publisher of children’s books in nonfiction and fiction, digital products and services and literacy programs.  Capstone’s content comes in a variety of print and digital formats including board books, picture books, interactive books, apps, audio and databases.  Imprints under Capstone include Capstone Press, Stone Arch Books, Picture Window Books, Heinemann Raintree and Compass Point Books.  Divisions include Capstone Classroom and Capstone Digital.  For more information, visit www.CapstonePub.com.   Connect with them at http://Connect.CapstonePub.com.