This is a 10 CD-ROM Set!
Interactive storybooks and activities that develop
reading skills
Lab Pack (5 Stand Alone Computers, within the same building).
Includes the following:
- Teacher's Guide - The teacher's guide is designed to help you plan for computer use, manage technology projects and connect the educational content of the software program to your classroom curriculum. Many of the School Editions offer strategies and activities developed in keeping with approaches advocated in the National Standards.
- Student Activities - Activities to further the development of your students' individual skills. Many of these activities are designed for cooperative learning groups. Some can be set up or activity centers where students can work independently. And many activities can be extended and integrated with students' work at the computer
- Blackline Masters - Reproducibles that complement the lesson plans and activities.
- User's Guide - Provides all the information needed to run the program, including illustrations and directions for all menu items.
Journey through a land of fantasy and surprise animation in this breakthrough
program that teaches children to read. It covers a full year of classroom
instruction and integrates 40 increasingly challenging storybooks with over 100
phonics activities. There's also a proficiency-tracking feature to guide
children's learning, and blackline masters of the 40 books from the program!
The Reading Development Library series presents classic tales to encourage
children's exploration of literature. The tales were chosen because children
find them engaging and intriguing. In addition, familiarity with the story lines
facilitates children's ability to predict events, an important component in
reading comprehension. The rhyme, rhythm, and repetition found throughout the
stories contribute to their richness and appeal and provide an ongoing
opportunity for children to hone their reading skills.
Each story is presented from three perspectives: a classic version and two
versions told from the story of characters' points of view. Exposing children to
multiple perspectives of the same story encourages them to increase their
understanding of others and their ability to identify with others' experiences.
This social role-play is an integral part of children's development of empathy
and awareness of self relative to others.
Children can read the stories in one of two modes. In Read to Me mode, the
character selected reads the story aloud in its entirety. In the Read Together
mode, children can explore the text and the pictures at their own pace. They can
hear the text read aloud by clicking on the character, and they can click on
individual words to hear them read.
- Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- The Three Little Pigs
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- City Mouse, Country Mouse
In the Read Together mode, children have access to the story-related activities.
These activities give them additional opportunities to work with story concepts
and vocabulary.
Express It
Children help Sam the Lion create letters to send to the storybook characters by
choosing words or phrases to complete the sentences that Sam has written. A
picture accompanies each choice to help comprehension and vocabulary
development. And since children can try out the different choices before
finalizing their decisions, they can enjoy experimenting and playing with
language. Once children complete a letter, they send it to the character
and receive a tailored response that addresses specific points in their letter.
This activity exposes children to the conventions of letter writing, a valuable
method of communication.
Story Map
Activities focus on words and events from the stories. In Story Match, children
match pictures to words, practicing word-recognition and developing vocabulary.
In Story Order, children put specific events from the story into the correct
chronological order. This challenges them to recall both sequence and content.
Extending the Experience
As children explore the stories in Reading Development Library, there are
several things that can help them get the most out of their reading experience.
Making predictions about the plot and the characters is a great way to get
children to start thinking about the story. You can even have the children write
their own version, write a letter, or write a short story.
- Windows 95/98/Me
- 486 DX/133MHz or better
- 4MB RAM
- Hard Disk
- 256-color SVGA
- Double-speed CD-ROM drive
- Windows-compatible sound card
- Mouse
- System 7.01 to 9.0
- 256-color monitors
- 4 MB RAM
- Hard Disk
- Double-speed CD-ROM drive
- Mouse
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