Knowledge Adventure Academy--Early Literacy: Knowledge Adventure.

Knowledge Adventure Academy--Early Literacy: Knowledge Adventure. www.knowledgeadventure school.com Software, $3,750 Conforming to national and state curriculum standards, the softwarehelps teachers implement current strategies for reading improvement andmanage individual student literacy needs, regardless of a child'sinitial skill set. It systematically builds skills such as alphabeticprinciple The alphabetic principle is the understanding that letters are used to represent speech sounds, or phonemes, and that there are systematic and predictable relationships between written letters and spoken words. , phonemic awareness Phonemic Awareness is a subset of phonological awareness in which listeners are able to distinguish phonemes, the smallest units of sound that can differentiate meaning. For example, a listener with phonemic awareness can break the word "Cat" into three separate phonemes: /k/, /a/, , phonics, word building, spelling anddecoding. The program is made up of comprehensive lessons and a readingcomprehension Reading comprehension can be defined as the level of understanding of a passage or text. For normal reading rates (around 200-220 words per minute) an acceptable level of comprehension is above 75%. center approach delivered via computer-based technology,classroom materials, worksheets, decodable readers, electronic big nooksand a take-home disc, which encourages parental involvement. The companyalso has introduced Knowledge Adventure Academy--Vocabulary and ReadingComprehension, which helps schools close the language gap by usingvocabulary building activities and guided reading Guided reading is a method of teaching reading to children. It forms part of the National Literacy Strategy for England and Wales and is therefore a preferred approach employed within primary schools. Guided Reading sessions involve a teacher and a group of around six children. comprehension. Pricedat $6,250 for a building license, it contains a Learning Zones PlacementTest that places students at the level where they will learn and retainnew words most rapidly. It offers 2,400 explicitly leveled vocabularywords that build background knowledge and contribute to improved readingcomprehension. Core literacy words are reinforced with high-qualityaudio pronunciations of all words and definitions. It runs on Windows XP The previous client version of Windows. XP was a major upgrade to the client version of Windows 2000 with numerous changes to the user interface. XP improved support for gaming, digital photography, instant messaging, wireless networking and sharing connections to the Internet. 2000 or 2003 and Macintosh OS 10.4 systems.