Knowledge Adventure Academy - Early Literacy
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
What else is included?
Classroom Management System:
The Classroom Management System allows each teacher to organize their classroom and assign lessons in ways that are most appropriate for each student’s individual needs. The system also lets you monitor student progress with detailed progress reports and pre and post test information.
Teacher Resource Guide:
The Early Literacy Teacher Resource Guide contains 35 packets of activities related to each literacy skill. Each packet will give ideas for hands-on classroom activities including games, art projects and worksheets that can be used to provide differentiated instruction for each student.
Readers:
Three levels of readers are provided in PDF to reinforce students key reading skills; phonics, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension. Detailed teacher materials let you know when to introduce each leveled reader.
Interactive “Comprehension” CD:
The comprehension CD allows students to view and hear the stories from the readers and answer questions or record themselves retelling the story in their own words or reading the story aloud.
Take Home CD:
This CD allows students to practice their skills at home and includes alphabet recognition, long and short vowels, letter sound quizzes and printable activities. Five copies of this CD are provided with the program and it may be duplicated if more are needed.
Grades: Kindergarten - 2nd
System Requirements:
Workstation:
Windows XP / Vista
Pentium III, 800 MHz or better, 1GHz for Vista
256 MB RAM, 1 GB for Vista
32 MB DirectX-compatible video card
32-bit color (Nvidia FX 5200 not supported)
800x600 screen resolution
DirectX-compatible sound card
Available HD space depending on application
Macintosh Workstation
PowerMac G4 800MHz or Intel Core Processor
OSX 10.4
256 MB RAM
32 MB video card
16-bit color at 800x600
Available HD space depending on application
School Server:
Pentium IV, 1.4 GHz or better
Windows 2000 Server or Windows 2003 Server Recommended
512 MB RAM
500 MB free hard disk space (depending on application). Additional space will be required to store user data
Ethernet 100 base T
Macintosh Server G4, 1 GHz or better
Mac OS X Server 10.4 Recommended
512 MB RAM
500 MB free hard disk space (depending on application). Additional space will be required to store user data
Ethernet 100 base T
