Optimum Resource, Inc. High School Reading Comprehension - Famous People

Famous People is designed to build vocabulary, assist students in the organization and acquisition of information, and provide an enriched perspective of the world.

• Famous People presents a broad range of fascinating individuals from George Washington Carver and Mother Teresa to Susan B. Anthony and John Glenn.
• Student-viewed movies bring great people such as Albert Einstein and Dwight D. Eisenhower to life in a unique manner, enhancing the learning experience.
• The series builds reading comprehension by emphasizing kinesthetic learning, listening skills, decision making, syntactic understanding, and evaluation.
• The topics, chosen from among high interest and curriculum compatible areas, appeal to students and foster lively discussion.
• Multiple choice and essay questions are included with each selection and the students' progress reports may be printed.
• These open-ended programs are versatile and easy to use. Teachers may add their own stories and questions at any time.
• Lesson Plans are designed to reinforce comprehension, analysis and evaluation of any selection in the series. Lesson Plans and Supplemental Materials are included with multiple-copy versions.

Program Features

• Award-winning, eye-catching, full color illustrations, animations, and graphics.
• Multiple track audio with correct pronunciation, encouragement and rewards.
• Timely navigational instructions.
• Teacher selectable music and audio controls.
• Teacher selectable auto-difficulty leveling.
• Classroom management - students can be identified by name in the program and the progress for each student is separately maintained for later reference by the teacher.
• With Macintosh and Windows versions on each CD-ROM, schools pay one price for both platforms for the life of the product release. This protects the school's software investment during the transition from a single hardware platform to a multiple platform environment.

Minimum System Requirements