January 26, 2004
By: Ushi Boor
Website: http://www.1st-in-toys.com
Advanced Level Educational Software Program
Help Me 2 Learn Company, today announced its most recent educational software program, Phonics 3a - Advanced Level. Designed for students grades 3 – 8 or ages 7-12, Phonics 3a - Advanced Level delivers an extraordinary environment for the development of language and reading skills that challenges, engages, and entertains students, weaving instruction, tests, exercises and games in an educational medley masquerading as pure enjoyment. Learning simply isn’t supposed to be this invigorating and exciting! Students will be so enthralled by the program that they may not even realize how much they’re learning until it’s too late and they have mastered the material.
Phonics 3a - Advanced Level is based on the standards for 3rd grade language arts, and can immensely benefit not only students of that age, but older students struggling to read as well. The course teaches word families and patterns; syllables; antonyms and synonyms; homophones and homographs; classifying and sorting; prefixes, root words and suffixes; reading comprehension strategies; and spelling.
The program uses four distinct methods within each of these topics: a Coach Time, which is an instructor led interactive tutorial, a Learn the Words section, a Speed Round, and a Sports Game where students vie for gold medals. In Coach Time, expert animated coaches introduce each topic, teaching the vital points of phonics while also instructing how to play a sport such as basketball or kayaking, making Phonics 3a - Advanced Level a magnetic learning method. These captivating and interactive tutorials make learning easy and entertaining for students.
For Learn the Words, students can study over 500 words presented in syllables and over 3,000 spoken words in sentences. Students can see and hear each word and its syllables, and see and hear the word used in a sentence. In addition, they can read a word definition, and read the topic rules. Next is a Speed Round, a 1-minute flash card style drill that helps students test their understanding of the words. All scores are saved and displayed on the student Progress Report, so students can easily track how they’re doing and always strive to do better.
Finally, students can immerse themselves in a palette of interactive sports oriented games. Phonics 3a - Advanced Level combines proven research-based phonics teaching techniques with mesmerizing sports games that reinforce, test, and reward students for both making their best effort and mastering the material. From basketball to karate, tennis to cross country running, even downhill skiing to kayaking, the games give immediate feedback to students on their progress - and provide compelling challenges for them to do even better and win gold medals!
Phonics 3a - Advanced Level is the first of Help Me 2 Learn Company’s new Gold Medal series, featuring their advanced Gold Medal Motivation and Tracking System. All scores for the speed rounds and games are displayed on the Gold Medal Progress Report. The Teachers’ and Parents’ section puts vital information about a student or class at your fingertips. A teacher can track each class member’s progress, print individual or group data viewed on the progress report, and set control features for each class. In addition, students taking the course in the school, lab, and network versions can take a pre-test and post-test to pinpoint their level when they started, and how much they have learned after using the program.
Phonics 3a - Advanced Level is compatible with PC and MAC computers. The product is immediately available for purchase via resellers.
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