LYNN – They may not be top of the charts when it comes to MCAS, but the Ford and Ingalls elementary schools have been named Imagine Nation Super Schools by Imagine Learning.”You are one of the few schools in the whole country that got this award,” Anne-Marie Brockwell, Imagine Learning area partnership manager, told Ingalls School students. “You have done an amazing job and because of the innovative ways you’re using the program, you are all doing so well.”Imagine Learning provides language and literacy solutions via individual plans for students struggling with reading or with learning disabilities or in learning English.Ford School English Language Learner Specialist Emily Mitchell said only 15 schools across the country were chosen as Super Schools, three in Massachusetts and two were in Lynn.Musdafa Abduhrman’s English skills belie the fact he’s only lived in this country for five months. He started out life in Syria, his family then moved to Iraq before fleeing to the U.S. He said he spoke no English when he arrived.”I like learning about things,” he said. “Space Ace is my favorite.”The program is literacy-driven video games. Students hear passages in their native language then read them in English and then listen to themselves read. In other games they match up words with pictures, work on vocabulary and gain points or gold coins for correct answers that allow them to move on.”He comes in every morning at 7:15 to work on his,” said teacher Debra Ladderbush.Ingalls School Principal Irene Cowdell credits Ladderbush with launching and growing the program within the school.Brockwell said Ingalls’ Special Education Department took a risk when it decided to partner up with Imagine Learning, and it’s been one of its flagship schools since.”There has been so much improvement,” she said. “It’s what keeps me going, seeing that they’re doing so well.”Fifth-grader Hein Nguyen has worked with the program almost since it was started nearly four years ago, and Ladderbush said it’s been amazing to see the changes.”I love word alert,” Nguyen said. “I like the word condense and permit.”Brockwell said she also loves the word “persnickety.”Like Ingalls, Mitchell uses the program primarily with English -anguage learners. She said the video-game-based lessons are a perfect fit, especially considering she has seven students who speak no English at all.Mitchell said she believes the Ford School was honored because of the number of hours students log on the program. She said there are three sessions, one each before, during and after school, and the students are dedicated.”We use it a lot,” Mitchell said. “I love the program ? we’re so diverse but it’s tailored to everyone’s needs.”Both schools received banners proclaiming their status as Super Schools and plaques.”We’ll hang ours in the hall where everyone can see it,” said Ford School Principal Claire Crane. “The kids are so excited. It really is a great thing.”