Reading Activities

Academy of Reading

Reading Activities for Grades 2nd-5th

Academy of Reading is a comprehensive, interactive, multimedia reading program designed to enhance literacy skills in students.This program has a pretest and post test for the student. A Reading Placement Test is given for their grade level. Students will have an Individual Training Program (ITP) that is designed for their needs. The student's ITP has exercises in specific skill areas. Training progress is monitored, and automatic interventions are made if necessary to help the students succeed more quickly when they encounter problems. The student's ITP are adjusted depending on their rate of progress. Class reports of student's progress have these areas: skills mastered, time in program, time on skill, % of program completed, and average time on skill per week. The student will train in the following areas:

-Phonemic Awareness- This is the ability to identify and manipulate the component sounds (or phonemes) of language.

-Phonics and Decoding- This gives the student practice in hearing and manipulating the phonemes of the language. It helps students develop the visual, auditory-visual, and oral skills required for reading proficiency.

-Comprehension-This section helps students to develop their vocabulary and the ability to identify the main idea.

Alpha Betty

Reading Activities for Grades K-1st

Alphea Betty is a language arts program for reading/math readiness. It teaches the following areas with three levels of difficulty:

-ABC's-Upper and lower case letters

-Patterns and Shapes

-Counting to 20 and counting to 100 by 1's, 5's, and 10's

-Counting to 300 using higher levels of difficulty

-Less than and Greater than

-Using Even Numbers

-Addition and Subtraction

Corner Stone

Reading Activities For Grades 3rd-6th

Corner Stone is a language program that has three levels of difficulty for the students. The program has a pretest and posttest for each skill area. The following areas are taught for the students:

-Capitalization

-Pronoun -"I", Names, Initials, and Titles

-First words in a sentence and Quotations

-Greetings and Closings in Letters

-Cities and Other Place Names

-Days, Months, and Holidays

-Books, Magazines, and Other Printed Material

-School Names

-Punctuation

-End Marks After a Sentence

-Periods After Initials and Abbrevations

-Commas to Separate Dates, City and State

-Commas in Greetings and Closings of a Letter

-Commas to Separate Items in a List

-Commas with Intro. Words and Direct Address

-Apostrophes: Contractions and Possessives

-Quotation Marks around Titles and Speaker's Words

-Quotation Marks at Beginning and End of Sentences

-Usage

-Nouns: Singular, Plural, and Possessive

-Pronouns: Singular, Plural, and Possessive

-Verbs: Agreement with Simple Subjects

-Verbs: Past, Present, and Future Tenses

-Verbs: Irregular Form

-Adjectives: Comparative and Superlative

-Adverbs vs Adjectives

-Simple Subjectives and Predicates

-Sentences: Complete, Fragment, and Run-on

-Double Negatives

-Pronouns: Subject and Object

-Spelling

-Short Vowel Sounds

-Long A,E,I,O,U, and OO Sound

-Dipthongs and Less Common Vowel Digraph

-R-Controlled Vowels 1 and Vowels 2

-Schwa Sounds in Unstressed Syllables

-Consonant Digraphs NG and NK

Chuck Wagon Bill

Grammar And Puncutation Activities For Grades 3rd-6th

Chuck Wagon Bill is a grammar program for grades 3rd-6th grades. This program includes grammar, capitalzation, and punctutation.

Grammar

Living Books

Story and Game Activity For Grades K-2nd

Living Books is a collection of six books with stories and game activities for students in grades K-2nd. The Living Books are:

-Author's Birthday

-Author's Teacher

-Grandma and Me

-Monster

-Stellaluna

-Tortoise and The Hare

Orchard V-36

Language Arts Program For Grades K-6th

Orchard V-36 is a language arts program with three levels of difficulty for grades K-6th. Areas of Language Arts are:

-Grammar

-Parts of Speech

-Phomemic Awareness (Levels A, B, and C)

-Phonics Sequence (Levels A, B, and C)

-Punctuation Beginning

-Reading and Writing Strategies (Levels 4-6)

-Vocabulary Problems Beginning

Plato

Language Arts and Math Program For Grades K-6th

Plato is program of language arts and math skills for students in grades K-6th. Assignments can be individually assigned for students. Students must master each skill with an assessment before they move to a new skill. The modules of Plato contain tutorials, drills, appliciations, problem solving activities, reviews, practice, and mastery test. Programs in Plato are:

Language Arts And Math

Reading Programs in The Real World- This program incorporates real life simulations and real life projects in meaningful content. It brings the real world to the classroom. The students are active learners where they explore, locate and use information, identify resources, observe different characters in action and make decisions to solve problems and produce products. Areas included in this program are:

Level A: Tidepool Expedition- Kindergarten

Level B: Buffalo National River Expedition- 1st Grade

Level C: Rocky Mountain Expedition- 2nd Grade

Level D: Puffin Island Expedition- 3rd Grade

Level E: Red Rock Expedition- 4th Grade

Level F: Cumberland Island Expedition-5th Grade

Reading Comprehension

Reading Program For Grades 3rd-6th

Reading comprehension is program that has 4 different levels for the students. Areas included in this program are:

Level 3

-Plurals

-Look Alike

-Words

-Definitions

Level 4

-Main Idea

-Right Words

-Vocabulary

-Your Voice

Level 5

-Roots

-Related Words

-Main Idea

-Right Words

Level 6

-Meaning

-Meanings

-Main Idea

-Right Meaning

Reading Rodeo

Reading Program for Grades K-3rd

This is a reading program with activities designed for K-3rd grade students.

Type To Learn

Typing Program For Grades K-5th

Type to Learn Jr. and Type To Learn-3 programs are in this program. This teaches begining keyboarding skills for K-1st grade and more advanced level keyboarding skills and typing skills for grades 2nd-5th grade students.

Alpha Betty

Math and Reading Program For Grades K-1st

Alpha Betty is a fun and easy program for students in K-1st to learn math and reading skills. Areas included in this program are:

-ABC's-Upper and lower case letters

-Patterns and Shapes

-Counting to 20 and counting to 100 by 1's, 5's, and 10's

-Less than and Greater than

-Using Even Numbers

-Addition and Subtraction

Corner Stone

Math Program For Grades 3rd-5th

Corner Stone is a math program that has 3 levels of difficulty for students in grades 3rd-5th. The program has a pretest and posttest for each skill area. Areas included in this program are:

Level A

-Understanding Numbers

-Using Addition and Subtraction

-Using Multiplication

-Using Division

-Using Decimals

-Using Fractions

-Working with Whole Numbers

-Working with Data (Pictographs, Line, Bar, and Circle Graphs)

Level B

-Understanding Numbers

-Using Whole Numbers

-Using Decimals

-Using Fractions

-Using Percents

-Working with Data ( Bar, Line, and Circle Graphs and Graphing Ordered Pairs)

Level C

-Understanding Numbers

-Using Decimals

-Using Fractions

-Using Percents

-Working with Data (Bar, Line, and Circle Graphs)

Orchard

Math Program For Grades K-6th

Orchard is a math program for students in grades K-6th grade. This program uses state standards for pretest and posttest. It offers a variety of math activities for all students. The math programs are listed in alphebetical order and are easy accessible for the students. Areas included in this program are:

-Algebra, Pattering, and Logic

-Basic Operations

-Decimals : Mixed Pratice

-Fractions Concepts

-Fractions Beginnings

-Fractions Mixed Practice

-Geometry K-3

-Geometry and Spatial Sense

-Graphing and Spatial Sense

-Graphing and Management Data

-Math Word Problems (Beginning and Intermediate)

-Measurement (K-1st, 2nd-3rd, and 4th-5th levels)

-Money

-Number Facts (Beginning, Advanced, and Mixed Practice)

-Number Sense

-Numeration (K-3rd)

-Pattering and Algebra (K-3rd)

-Probability

-Rounding Mixed Practice

-Time

-Whole Numbers (Beginning, Advanced, and Mixed Practice)

Plato

Math program For Grades K-6th

Plato is a math and reading program for students in grades K-6th. Assignments can be individually assigned to students. Students must master a skill with an assessment before they move to a new skill. The modules of Plato contain tutorials, drills, appliciations, problem solving activities, reviews, practice, and mastery test. Programs in Plato are:

Math and Language Arts

Math Expeditions This program incorporates real life simulations and real life projects in meaningful content. It brings the real world to the classroom. The students are active learners where they explore, locate and use information, identify resources, observe different characters in action and make decisions to solve problems and produce products. Areas included in this program are:

Level A: Tidepool Expedition- Kindergarten

Level B: Buffalo National River Expedition- 1st Grade

Level C: Rocky Mountain Expedition- 2nd Grade

Level D: Puffin Island Expedition- 3rd Grade

Level E: Red Rock Expedition- 4th Grade

Level F: Cumberland Island Expedition-5th Grade

Understanding Math

Math Program For Grades 3rd-5th

Understanding Math is a math program for grades 3rd-5th that has 4 levels of difficulty for students and emphasizes:

-Understanding, not memorizing

-Learning from concrete to abstract

-Thinking and doing rather than mimicking mathematics

-A mistake is an opportuntiy to learn

Sections are:

-Concepts

-Example Questions

-Practice Questions

-Topic Test

Skills For Understanding Math

-Fractions

-Equations

-Algebra

-Whole Numbers & Integers

-Percent

-Probability

-Exponents

-Graphing

-Measurement

-Geometry

Understanding Numerals

Math Program for Grades K-3rd

Understanding Numerals is math program for grades K-3rd. It has 4 levels of difficulty for students.

Skills For Understanding Numerals

-Counting

-Comparing & Ordering

-Place Value

-Problem Solving

Math Program

Math