Created by award-winning experts in educational software, Knowledge Adventure Academy – Early Literacy is an adaptive early-reading system designed to help educators manage students’ individual literacy needs.

Designed for students learning to read, the software’s comprehensive and flexible design is based on research from a variety of sources including widely adopted research conducted by the National Reading Panel. The program aims to help teachers implement current strategies for reading improvement, as well as manage individual students’ literacy needs, regardless of the child’s initial skill set. Knowledge Adventure Academy – Early Literacy conforms to national and state curriculum standards. The program systematically builds skills including alphabetic principle, phonemic awareness, phonics, word building, spelling and decoding. These skills are presented, practiced and applied in various ways to ensure students’ success. The program is made up of comprehensive lessons and a reading comprehension center approach delivered via computer-based technology, classroom materials, worksheets, decodable readers, electronic big books, and a take-home disc.

Early Literacy allows the teacher to choose from a variety of classroom configurations such as whole class, small group or individual learning. The program meets the needs of students with different learning styles and also reinforces classroom learning with progressive readers, in-class exercises, and classroom projects. Additionally, it provides correlated benchmarks. The software is tailored to provide instructional control to the teacher using the classroom management tool. This capability allows teachers to group the class according to levels, assign specific skills that meet curriculum needs, track and report student progress and share it with parents in both English and Spanish. It also features specific lesson plans correlated to skills, and teachers can customize by selecting from more than 270 included lessons. According to Tony Bordon, Senior Vice President for Knowledge Adventure, “Building the groundwork for a love of reading is essential in the early grades. Our program has been designed to foster interest in reading as students learn in a self-paced, confidence-building, environment.”


Knowledge Adventure Academy – Early Literacy provides:

• Over 250 lessons covering Phonemic Awareness, Phonics and Word Study, Vocabulary and Comprehension
• 3 levels of readers that reinforce key reading skills – Phonics, Vocabulary, Fluency and Comprehension
• Management system which lets teachers set lessons for the whole class or for a group of students based on skill level
• Exportable skill-by-skill progress reports that keep teachers up-to-date with student progress
• Self paced and individualized instruction that keeps students challenged and working at their level
• Pre- and post-tests that provide benchmarks on how the student is doing, skill by skill
• Take home CD lets children bring literacy into the home
• School-to-home tips in English and Spanish that link parents to their children’s education
• Teacher materials that allow for efficient classroom management
• Incorporates the insights of current research regarding how students learn to read
• Correlated to state and national standards
• Professional Development that focuses on best practices, implementation strategies and suggested use
• Compliments any early reading curriculum

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