Reading

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 River Deep Co., [|www.riverdeep.com]     , a K-3 computer-assisted instructional reading program designed for any student or group of students or as a supplement to another reading curriculum already in use. The program is research based and aligned with standards. Features include Font Control, Reading Rate Control, Desktop / View Options, Text highlighting, Animation, Reads graphics, Adjustable highlighting, Mac OS/Windows, Natural Speech, Multiple Voices. ===== ====    ==== <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">**<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">ClozePro **     <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.cricksoft.com] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">,       <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">   <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> a technique to explore topics of syntax, vocabulary, and comprehension on activity vocabulary. This program allows you to control which words are masked and can be used on screen or printed as worksheets. Software is switch compatible. Features include Font Control, Reading Rate Control, Desktop / View Options, Text notes, Text highlighting, Voice input, Animation, Mac/Windows, Early-Intermediate Elementary, Synthesize speech, Multiple Voices
 * Earobics **, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.earobics.com/] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">,  <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">useful to boost students' phonological and print awareness. There are two levels, one more appropriate for elementary and one with graphics more appropriate to older struggling readers. Features include Reading Rate Control, Animation, Reads graphics, Mac OS/Windows, Early Elementary-High, Natural Speech, Multiple Voices.

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<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">  <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">         ===== <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">  <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> **Edmark Reading Program**, <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.riverdeep.net] <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">,  <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">a structured reading program to develop emerging readers. It was designed for struggling students with a process that teaches a word, introduces its meaning, provides comprehension practice, and uses the word in the story context. The stories use only the learned words so students can successfully read them. Features include Text highlighting,       <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">   Animation, Reads graphics, Mac/Windows, Elementary/Intermediate-Middle Intermediate, Natural Speech, Multiple Voices.
 * Living Books Library,** Riverdeep Co., <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.riverdeep.com]   <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">, a software program designed to develop phonemic awareness and reading comprehension, build skills in word recognition, vocabulary and computer literacy, foster creativity and encourage oral and written expression. It includes 2 CD’s for each title (7), lesson plans, thematic unites with suggested activities, and reproducible images from the books.


 * Let’s Go Read 1 and 2,** Riverdeep Co., <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.riverdeep.com]   <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">, PreK-1, helps students master the basics of beginning reading; and expand their vocabulary as they learn new words in the context of pictures, sentences, and books. Both phonics and whole language methodologies ensure student success. Develops students' abilities to decode hundreds of words and improve reading comprehension. Students practice reading skills and then apply their gained knowledge. A balanced approach to teaching with both phonics and whole language approaches. MAC/WIN platforms.

**<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51)"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> Word Munchers,    **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Riverdeep Co., <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.riverdeep.com] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">  ** <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">,  **   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> designed to enhance practice of elementary word recognition skills and is a self-directed activity for the language arts curriculum. It utilizes a 3D-animated game board. Students are asked to solve a variety of reading, grammar and vocabulary problems. The program is designed for students who need an effective and engaging way to practice basic skills. Five levels of play. **<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51)"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> Sentence Master,    **<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Laureate Learning Systems, <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.laureatelearning.com] <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">,  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">  __is__ designed for students who are having trouble learning to read. It is a remedial reading program focusing on  non-content words, such as “the,” “is,” “and,” etc. The activities and stories are  designed so that students never have to read or write a word that has not been fully mastered. An emphasis on accurate spelling       <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> enables students to easily discriminate small differences in words (e.g. bus/but, top/too) and to effectively write every word they learn. Controlled sentence syntax facilitates the development of comprehension skills.
 * Fast ForWord,** Scientific Learning, <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.scilearn.com]   <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">, software is a suite of products that combining cognitive skill development to reading skill development through computer delivered exercises that strengthen the cognitive processes. It is designed to strengthen working, short-term and long-term memory, essential for word recognition, comprehension of complex sentences, and remembering instructions; improve student concentration and attention to allow focus on tasks and ignore distractions; strengthen processing skills so that students see images and distinguish sounds quickly enough to discriminate their differences, essential for phonemic awareness and reading fluency; improve sequencing, a cognitive skill that relies on memory, attention, and processing and is essential for phonics, word fluency, reading and oral comprehension. The Series is designed for students struggling to reach grade level standards and beyond.
 * <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">PLATO Achieve Now K-3 Reading, **<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> PLATO Co**.**, <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.lightspan.com]   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">, is a flexible, scientifically research-based early reading program that addresses the five key area of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. The components are designed to work together to provide a supplemental classroom reading solution compatible with other programs.
 * <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">Lexia, **<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51)">Lexia Learning System, Inc., [|www.lexialearning.com], reading programs designed to build strengths in phonemic awareness, sound-symbol correspondence, decoding, fluency, phonics and vocabulary - areas researchers have identified as essential to comprehension. At each level, students navigate independently through an increasingly complex sequence of engaging, skill-building activities that use age-appropriate graphics and high-quality audio with clear, consistent pronunciation. Students gain competence as the software automatically adjusts to each user’s progress and presents additional practice when necessary.

**Swim, Swam, Swum,** Laureate Learning Systems, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.laureatelearning.com] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">, designed to assist st udents with language disabilities master irregular verbs. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">This program focuses on high-frequency irregular verbs and trains them in their base, present, present progressive, past, and past perfect forms. Four verb training activities are available. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">In all activities, there are teacher choices to set interface, level of difficulty, speech and/or text options, response time, and background reinforcement animation. Programs are   available for individuals age 4 to adult. <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="color: rgb(10, 0, 0)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> **<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102); background-color: rgb(240, 239, 239)"><span style="color: rgb(15, 0, 0)">WiggleWorks, Scholastic, **<span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102)">[|www.teacher.scholastic.com/products/wiggleworks/index.htm], is beginning    <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 102)"><span style="color: rgb(10, 0, 0)">-reading software utilizing a blend of technology, literature, and teacher support. This program integrates leveled books with technology and instruction to help students become successful readers and writers. WiggleWorks provides leveled reading practice, built-in instruction, and motivation to engage students in reading and writing.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> ** Early Learning 1, ** Marblesoft Co., [|www.marblesoft.com], a program for pre-reading.   <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 51)"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Early Learning I includes four activities that teach pre-reading skills. Each activity features multiple levels of difficulty. Single- and dual-switch scanning are built-in (6 different ways), and special prompts allow blind students to use all levels of difficulty. Activities include matching colors, learning shapes, counting numbers, and letter match.


 * My Own Bookshelf 2,** SoftTouch Co., <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.softtouch.com]  <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">, is a program designed to improve beginning literacy by allowing students to select their own books. It is an authoring tool that allows creation of books with a student data collection feature. Instruction includes a step-by-step content and individual images and video additions.


 * WordMaker**, Don Johnson Co., <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.donjohnston.com] <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">, includes instruction in phonics, phonemic-awareness and spelling activities to help develop student core reading strategies. Students drag letters to blanks, then click the checkmark to get feedback, make many different words using various letter combinations, hear auditory prompts to make words, and receive word walls of the mastered words. Built-in tools track student progress.

<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> **Simon S.I.O.,**   <span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">Don Johnston Co., <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.donjohnston.com]   <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">, is a multi-level phonics instruction program. Lessons are introduced with new word families utilizing sound, voice, text and graphic support. Other features include multi-level redirection, feedback and on-screen rewards.

<span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">**Inquiry Box**//,// http://www.boston.k12.ma.us/teach/technology/emmanuel.asp, created by Kristen Eichleay, and Eric Young of the Boston Public Schools Access Technology, this concept is a 3-D kinesthetic teaching support that is useful with games and has been found to be fun and motivating for students. It is a visual, tactile and auditory support tool. It is useful for skill reinforcement in the areas of categorizing, recall (facilitated with visuals), key concepts (highlighting), sequencing, and student presentations.

<span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> **Edmark Functional Word Series**, [|www.riverdeep.com], <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">encompasses functional, practical words to help teach the vocabulary necessary for everyday, independent community living. Reproducible worksheets are included for practice and review. Word meaning is reinforced with specially designed illustrations. ||   <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 110%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial"><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">  **Balanced Literacy**, <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">IntelliTools Co., <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">[|www.intellitools.com] <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif">, provides early literacy instruction for first grade level readers. It integrates guided reading, support writing and word study or phonics activities. Nine units are built around animal themes supporting students and supplementing the classroom language arts curriculum. Features include theme-based anchor books, intensive phonics strategies, writing activities, immediate assessment, and customizable options for different learning styles. <span style="font-size: 120%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial"> || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial"> || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial"> || || <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman',Times,serif"><span style="font-size: 9pt; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Arial"> || || ||
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