Best Reading/English Instructional Solution

Recognizes the best instructional solution for language arts, reading, and English curricula and content for students in the K-12 and postsecondary markets. Includes solutions for native and non-native English speakers at all levels.

Products nominated here are eligible for the Best Instruction Solution, Best K-12 Education Solution and Best Postsecondary Education Solution supercategories.

LearnThatWord.org - eSpindle Learning Introductory videos: About our concept and program: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SQwxt7W_vo LearnThatWord in the school http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86xFJGJgi1w Our philanthropic Vocabulary Junction campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9O23Ag3QA8 About Pay-Per-Result: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMKTUHye5hc LearnThatWord is the only comprehensive online vocabulary program that combines 100% personalized practice with a multi-faceted database of 200,000 words. Students excel with pre-edited data sets including audio, images, definitions, usage samples, tutoring comments, translations in 37 languages, links to online resources, and more. Personal comments can be added easily. Tutoring is offered via our innovative Pay-Per-Result concept or traditional membership. While the two established quiz modules require active input of the word studied, a third quiz module that focuses on correct understanding and usage of the word is currently in Beta (scheduled to go live end of May). Every learning session is custom designed based on the member's individual learning profile, considering personal goals, priority words requested, as well as learning history. Our word list archive holds millions of word lists and makes it a snap to synchronize LearnThatWord with the curriculum. Go To eSpindle Learning's Web Site
NewsMaker - EyePower, Inc NewsMaker is a motivational tool that helps students improve their English language skills while mastering content in any subject area. With NewsMaker, students take on the role of news reporter, news anchor and producer, creating their own story in 3 easy steps - Write! Read! Publish!- to practice their writing, reading and presentation skills. It is non grade-level and non content-area specific. Go To EyePower, Inc's Web Site Go To Product Site
Writer's Workspace - Glencoe/McGraw-Hill Writer’s Workspace is an online, integrated grammar and composition program which engages students in the writing process through interactive reading-writing lessons, a dynamic writing platform, and useful student tools. It was developed to offer students rigorous language arts instruction within an exciting, interactive online environment. Go To Glencoe/McGraw-Hill's Web Site Go To Product Site
Imagine Learning English - Imagine Learning Imagine Learning English uses thousands of engaging activities to provide students around the world with individualized language and literacy instruction. Research-based instructional practices and continual assessment empower students to master speaking and reading skills while in-depth progress reports help teachers identify and meet unique student needs. Go To Imagine Learning's Web Site Go To Product Site
Raz-Kids.com - Learning A-Z Raz-Kids.com gives you hundreds of interactive, leveled books spanning 27 levels of difficulty, covering a wide range of subjects. In addition to engaging kids at their reading level and in their area of interest, this award-winning student-centric site gives kids 24/7 Web access to the practice they need to become better, more confident readers. At the same time, teachers can customize assignments, view reports, and track student progress every step of the way. With Raz-Kids.com, you can: *Give your kids independence and ownership! They can access the site at home or at school, choose books from the virtual bookroom, decide on their reading pace, and even record themselves reading! *Motivate kids to successfully complete online comprehension quizzes, which help kids progress from level to level and gives them an added incentive to succeed. *Monitor students' activity and progress online, build reading rosters, do online running records, and adjust assignments to maximize effectiveness. *Watch your kids savor the time they spend exploring Raz-Kids.com, including the cool "Raz Rocket." This motivational, clubhouse-like environment gives kids virtual rewards (stars) to "spend" customizing their very own rocket. Go To Learning A-Z's Web Site Go To Product Site
Reading A-Z - Learning A-Z ReadingA-Z.com is well-known for its vast library of printable and projectable readers at 27 levels of difficulty. But the leveled readers are just the beginning! There are also books in many genres and formats, fluency passages for timed reading, customizable worksheets, poetry,reader's theater scripts, Spanish resources, and dozens of other classroom resources and tools. ReadingA-Z.com is the perfect site for teachers to get all the books and classroom resources they need to serve every student in their classroom. Teachers can even download free apps and leveled libraries from Apple's iTunes App Store. With ReadingA-Z.com, you can: *Download and print materials for students to use in class or to practice with at home, in the car, or anywhere else they can find a quiet place to read *Access other teacher resources, including systematic phonics, high-frequency and alphabet books, vocabulary resources, serial books, and much more *Project our resources, including leveled books, worksheets, and quizzes for small-group and full-classroom instruction. And with built-in interactive tools, projectables can be used with or without an interactive whiteboard! *Use our assessment tools to establish benchmarks and track individual student progress *Take advantage of our regular, live webinars to provide helpful strategies for using ReadingA-Z.com as part of your regular classroom routine Go To Learning A-Z's Web Site Go To Product Site
MyReadingLab - Pearson Education MyReadingLab is a complete online learning system, and the first and only program that helps students to master reading skills and transfer this skill mastery into a reading process. The principal strengths of MyReadingLab are its wealth of instructional resources, abundance of practice, and comprehensive assessment and progress tracking. With MyReadingLab’s instructional resources, students have access to a variety of learning aids to fit their interests and learning styles. Each MyReadingLab skill topic contains the programmatic pedagogical devices: overview (abbreviated skill lesson), model (examples modeling the use of the skills), animation tutorials (helping students to see concepts while listening/reading along), and an integrated eTextbook. MyReadingLab’s copious practice is unrivaled. There are two practice engines in MyReadingLab: one for skill mastery and one to improve readability, and a total of five exercise types. The Reading Skills area is composed of over 1,200 readings across the 24 skill topics. Each topic contains Practice and Test activities. Both activities are delivered in sets, with each set containing two readings and supporting questions. Students receive instant feedback/coaching in the Practice to help them through, but are challenged to be more independent with the Test by not having access to the feedback. Complementing the Reading Skills is the Reading Level area, powered by Metametrics’ Lexile Framework for Reading, the premier readability-improvement system. After completing an initial readability diagnostic, students work with the readings (300 readings total) within their Lexile measure. As a student moves from one Lexile range to another, the list of available readings also changes so that students are constantly working at level, for maximum learning and improvement. The comprehensive progress tracking keeps instructors abreast of how students are performing and what they’re doing in MyReadingLab. The Reading Skill Diagnostic Pre-Test assesses students’ individual strengths and weaknesses, while summarizing the scores for the entire class. This topic view empowers instructors to prioritize the lessons. The MyReadingLab Gradebook records all student work in MyReadingLab. From time on task to the number of sets completed and the score for each to recaps of students’ responses, MyReadingLab helps instructors to monitor their students’ overall progress and activity throughout the course. In addition to MyReadingLab’s instruction, practice and assessment, students have access to more learning resources directly through MyReadingLab: Pearson’s Vocabulary Website, Pearson’s Study Skills Website, and MySearchLab(Pearson’s robust research website). Go To Pearson Education's Web Site Go To Product Site
Explode The Code Online - School Specialty Intervention Explode The Code® Online provides K-4 students with direct phonics instruction to build essential literacy skills. • Engaging game-like interface and reward system make learning fun. • Individualized, data-driven instruction is based on continuous assessment of correct/incorrect responses, response patterns and completion times. • Sophisticated branching techniques adjust curriculum so students work only on areas of need. • Robust reporting monitors progress at the student, class and school levels. • Explode The Code Online is available across school, home and extended day services. No installation is required. Go To School Specialty Intervention's Web Site Go To Product Site
Time To Know - Time to Know Time To Know is a complete interactive curriculum system designed specifically for 1:1 computing classrooms. It includes an engaging core curriculum, integrated with tools for classroom management, planning, assessment and collaboration. By creating the first Digital Teaching Platform, Time To Know helps schools improve the quality of teaching and learning, and realize the vision of 1:1 computing. Go To Time to Know's Web Site Go To Product Site

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