Build A Foundation For Reading By Exploring Letters, Words, Rhyming and Sentence Building
Now through nine playful activities, students learn about letter names and sounds, rhyming words, adjectives, how text relates to visual symbols, positional words, letter recognition, sentence building and much more. These activities help build language concepts and thinking skills students need to communicate and make sense of the world around them.
Features
· An improved user interface and updated characters that take advantage of latest digital technology bring the house series to life and encourages young students to interact with the program independently
· 2 new activities supplement cross-curricular instruction with both software and print activities
· Advanced print controls enables management of print resources
· Expanded explore & discover and question & answer modes providing even more opportunities for independent and structure learning
· Flexible delivery options that have been design to meet every classroom budget and resource need
· All letters, words, and sentences are presented in a meaningful context
· Graphical and spoken instructions allow pre-readers to use the program
· A special highlighting technique encourages students to follow words from left to right as they hear them read aloud
· Positive gentle feedback, guidance, and natural prompts provide encouragement to students
Special Needs Features
· Built-in universal access and pacing options
· Ability select and assign accessibility options by student
· Closed-captioning of all audio and controls
· Screen scaling for larger screen views
Stand-alone System Requirements
WINDOWS
- Platform / OS : Win 98, Me, 2000 Professional, XP
- Processor : Pentium II 200 Mhz
- Available RAM : 4 MB, 8MB (recommended)
- Free hard disk space : 1MB Min, 33.7 MB full
- CD ROM min speed : 2X
- Display Required : SVGA, 640x480, 256 colors
MACINTOSH
- Platform / OS : Mac OS 8.6+, OS 10.2.x-10.4.x (Native)
- Processor : G3 Processor
- Available RAM : 4 MB, 8MB (recommended)
- Free hard disk space : 1MB Min, 62.8 MB full
- CD ROM min speed : 2X
- Display Required : 13" Monitor, 256 colors
System Requirements
WINDOWS
- Server Platform : Windows NT 4.0, 2000 (Latest Service Pack), 2003
- Server Hard Disk Space : 115 MB
- Client OS : Windows 95b/95c/98/ME/2000/XP
- Client Hardware : Pentium 166 MHz (or faster)
- Client Display : 800 x 600 SVGA display, 256 colors
- Client RAM : 64 MB RAM, 128 MB RAM (Windows 2000/XP)
- Client Disk Space : 50 MB
- Network Version : RNV
MACINTOSH
- Server Platform : Mac AppleShare 6.0.3 or later, or OS X.2 Server
- Server Hard Disk Space : 115 MB
- Client OS : OS 8.6 to OS 9.2.x (classic) and OS 10.1.5 - 10.4.x (OS X native)
- Client Hardware : G3 processor
- Client Display : 800 x 600 display, 256 colors
- Client RAM : 64MB RAM (or higher)
- Client Disk Space : 50 MB
- Network Version : RNV
NOVELL
- Server Platform : Netware 4.11 (or later)
- Server Hard Disk Space : 115 MB
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