Optimum Resource, Inc. High School Reading Comprehension - Cars-

Capture the interest of all students with Cars, an exciting program that examines automobiles from their early beginnings to the high-performance race cars of today.

The reading comprehension experience is enhanced with student-viewed movies featuring the Indy 500, the Model T Ford, Volkswagons, and more!

Cars is part of the High School Reading Comprehension Series for Grades 9-12, which is designed to build vocabulary, assist students in the organization and acquisition of information, and provide an enriched perspective of the world. The series builds reading comprehension by emphasizing kinesthetic learning, listening skills, decision making, syntactic understanding, and evaluation.

Benefits

• 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