Reading Explorers Series Bundle from Gamco
Travel through six exciting reading environments!
Reading Explorers Series incorporates a multi-level approach to developing reading comprehension skills.
1. Instruction
In the Instruction phase, the program automatically:
- Explains questions and how to find answers.
- Incorporates concept maps during or after stories for visual aids and skill reinforcement.
- Presents key vocabulary terms and definitions.
- Gives detailed explanations of correct and incorrect answer choices.
- Refers students to highlighted text for answer help.
2. Practice
Upon the students’ request, in the Practice phase, the program:
- Presents open-ended prediction questions before each passage and reviews after each passage.
- Allows students to review vocabulary.
- Encourages students to identify and highlight key words, phrases, and sentences to correctly answer questions.
3. Application
In the Application phase, the program:
- Reads the questions and answer choices.
- Provides visual feedback for answer choices.
- Exposes students to standardized test formats.
Reading Explorers Series Bundle
Key Skills include:
- Main Idea
- Vocabulary
- Predicting Outcomes
- Sequence
- Comparison/Contrast
- Fact/Opinion
- Cause/Effect
- Reasoning
- Setting
- Identifying Speaker
- Author’s Purpose
- Making Judgments
- Recognizing Emotional Reactions
- Drawing Conclusions
- Judging Validity
- Slant/Bias
- Literary Awareness
- Interpreting character
- Mood and/or tone
- Understanding persuasion
- Synthesizing information to make a decision
- Identifying setting
- Predicting outcomes
- Evaluating accuracy/appropriateness of information
- Determining relative importance
- Retelling/paraphrasing
- Visual Comprehension
- 33 skills
Reading Explorers Series Bundle includes 6 great titles from the Reading Explorers Series:
- Reading Explorers 1: Assignment Oceans
- Reading Explorers 2: Assignment Polar Regions
- Reading Explorers 3: Assignment Rainforest
- Reading Explorers 4: Assignment Desert Terrain
- Reading Explorers 5: Assignment Space
- Reading Explorers 6: Assignment Time
This new series helps young readers acquire and enhance 42 literal, inferential, critical and visual reading skills through a multiple-step guided reading approach. Students progress through text introductions and predictions, vocabulary development, focused reading, skill and open-ended questions, peer discussion groups, and culminating critical thinking activities as they travel through each grade-specific environment. Narrative, informational, persuasive/ argumentative, and everyday/work texts are grade-appropriate.
Includes pretests and instruction, practice, and application stages that
ensure that students are properly challenged. A complete management system and extensive use of voice and illustrations enhance this robust package.
Series Features
- Program models Guided Reading strategies to teach key skills.
- Rich oral language and focused feedback included.
- Integrates multiple-choice and open-ended question formats.
- Activities include surveys, character studies, and vocabulary quiz games.
- Narrative, informational, persuasive, and work text passages are covered.
- Resource tools include journals and interactive concept maps.
Series Applications
- Introduces and expands reading comprehension development.
- Naturally integrates reading and writing in context.
- Incorporates learning styles to promote student interest and success.
Series Management
- Records progress per passage type and skill.
- Choose instructional levels.
- Determine order and quantity of passage types
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
Macintosh
- System 8 or higher
- Server OS: Appleshare, Novell or NT
- 32MB RAM
- 4x or faster CD-ROM Drive
- Speakers
- Printer
Windows
- Pentium 133 or faster
- Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000
- Server OS: Novell, NT, or WIN 2000
- 32MB RAM
- 4x or faster CD-ROM Drive
- Speakers
- Printer
Reading Explorers Series Bundle from Gamco
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