A+dvanced Learning System

Age Range: 6-Adult
Platforms: PC and Mac - Stand alone, lab pack and network versions are available in single and district site license versions.
Medium: CD-ROM
Cost: Please call or email

Company: The American Education Corp.
Phone: 1-800-342-7587
Email: jebjr@amered.com

Description:

The Language Arts component of the A+dvanced Learning System consists of 25 groups of lessons for learning grammar, usage, speech, vocabulary, spelling, comprehension, word analysis, and all levels of writing, straight through publication. The lesson groups are:

Grammar & Usage I (Grade Levels 1-3)

Develops and strengthens basic grammar and word use skills. Assists in mastery of subjects, predicates, nouns, pronouns, verbs, plural nouns, punctuation, adjectives, comparisons, capitalization, contractions, and problem words. Over 30 lessons.

Grammar & Usage II (Grade Levels 4-6)

Develops and strengthens sentence concepts. Assists in mastery of sentence types, subject/verb agreement, participles, prepositions, conjunctions, interjections, abbreviations, and compound words. Reviews nouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and correct verb usage. Excellent essay questions!

Grammar & Usage III (Grade Levels 7-9)

Review and diagnostics of grammar skills. Assists in mastery of standard and nonstandard speech, fragments, parts of speech, parts of sentences, complements, mood, verbals, and compound sentences. Reviews nouns, verbs, pronouns, adjectives and adverbs, language problems and sentence improvements.

Language Skills I (Grade Level 1)

Develops and strengthens phonics skills, long and short vowel sounds, final consonant sounds, vowel clusters, homophones, double consonants, consonant blends. Introduces different spellings for same sounds, compound words, and ending syllables. Includes vocabulary words that demonstrate these concepts. Excellent essay questions!

Language Skills II (Grade Level 2)

Assists in mastery of short and long vowels, double ending consonants, homophones, consonant blends, compound words, contractions, vowels in syllables, the schwa sound, different spellings for plurals, and adding endings to words. Includes vocabulary words that demonstrate these concepts.

Language Skills III (Grade Level 3)

Reviews and assists in mastery of long and short vowels sounds, consonant blends, homophones, compound words, contractions, synonyms, antonyms, the schwa sound, suffixes, different spellings for vowel sounds, silent letters, and capitalization. Introduces vocabulary words associated with pastimes, foods, clothing, and animals. Includes vocabulary words that demonstrate these concepts.

Language Skills IV (Grade Level 4)

Reviews and assists in mastery of long and short vowels, homophones, the schwa sound, plural possessives, contractions, compound words, consonant blends, and suffixes. Reviews comparisons, abbreviations, silent letters, unusual spellings. Introduces vocabulary words associated with math, science, government, and transportation. Excellent essay questions! Over 70 lessons.

Language Skills V (Grade Level 5)

Applies vocabulary words that demonstrate long and short sounds, ending sounds, homophones, digraphs, compound words, the schwa sound, plurals, contractions, suffixes, prefixes. Introduces and defines words that look alike, abbreviations, silent letters, words with unusual spellings, words from other languages, and introduces words associated with weather, space, business, theater, and ecology. Excellent essay questions!

Language Skills VI (Grade Level 6)

Uses vocabulary words to review homophones, the schwa sound, prefixes and suffixes, silent letters, words with unusual spellings, homophones, as well as long and short vowel sounds. Introduces more words that look alike, compound words, adjective endings and Greek and Latin prefixes. Specialized vocabulary words associated with self-awareness, construction, communication and transportation, marketplace, and community. Excellent essay questions! Over 70 lessons.

Language Skills VII (Grade Level 7)

Uses vocabulary words to assist in mastery of homophones, the schwa sound, silent letters, different spellings for various sounds, words with unusual spellings, compound words. Shows word origin relationships and includes Greek and Latin derivatives. Specialized vocabulary includes words associated with self-awareness, food and dining, language and literature, mathematics, legal, and science words. Excellent essay questions.

Comprehension I (Grade Levels 1-3)

Thirty lessons that introduce and assist in mastering concepts of ng all long and short vowels and initial consonant sounds. Helps students recognize letters that look alike. Introduces blends and beginning digraphs. Over 30 lessons with excellent essays. Great for beginning readers.

Comprehension II (Grade Levels 4-6)

Contains lessons that assist in mastery of recognizing sequence, supporting conclusions with evidence, analogies, cause and effect, comparison, using context clues, metaphors, autobiography, character traits, elements of plots, outlining skills, card catalogs, mood, making judgments, as well as skimming and note-taking skills. (46 lessons)

Comprehension III (Grade Levels 7-9)

Assists in mastery of recognizing and using fact and opinion, cause and effect, transition, purpose in writing, imagery, characterization, point of view, fables, themes, outlining skills, classifying information and analyzing settings. (24 lessons)

Vocabulary I (Grade Levels 1-3)

Assists in reinforcing concepts of opposites, homophones, compound words, synonyms, phonograms, prefixes, suffixes, alphabetizing, contractions, abbreviations, as well as words associated with math, science, and standardized tests. (30 lessons)

Vocabulary II (Grade Levels 4-6)

Reviews and refines concepts of homonyms, synonyms, homographs, antonyms, prefixes, suffixes, similes, metaphors, and tricky words. (35 lessons)

Vocabulary III (Grade Levels 7-9)

Reviews and refines concepts of prefixes, suffixes, compound words, abbreviations, possessives, contractions, root words, synonyms, antonyms, homonyms, homographs, similes, metaphors, figures of speech, capitalization skills, connecting and transition words, and analogies. Specialized vocabulary words include transportation, science, legal and business words, as well as words from other languages. (25 lessons)

Word Analysis I (Grade Levels 1-3)

Develops and strengthens phonics skills, including all long and short vowels and initial consonant sounds. Helps students recognize letters that look alike. Introduces blends and beginning digraphs. Great for beginning readers! (62 lessons)

Word Analysis II (Grade Levels 4-6)

Reviews and refines phonics skills including long and short vowels, vowels clusters, ending letters and sounds, initial and final consonant sounds, beginning and ending blends and digraphs and double letter endings. Over 50 lessons with excellent essay questions.

Word Analysis III (Grade Levels 7-9)

Review and excellent practice to refine phonics skills for higher grades. Includes emphasis on medial vowels, different spellings for similar sounds, the schwa sound, initial and final consonant blends, three-letter blends, and silent letters. Over 30 lessons with excellent essay questions.

Writing I (Grade Levels 1-3)

Introduces concepts of brainstorming, categorizing, words pairs, sentence types, drafting, using descriptive words, revising and proofreading skills, capitalization and punctuation skills, writing to communicate information, paragraph form and content, fact and opinion. Includes practice in recognizing singulars and plurals, nouns and pronouns, subject-verb agreement, and verb tense.

Writing II (Grade Levels 1-3)

Reinforcement for Writing I. Assists students in mastery of recognizing steps in writing, using persuasion, descriptive poetry, drafting, revising, making comparisons, sequence skills, sentence construction. Also includes positive and negative, question and statement, and sentence combination exercises.

Writing III (Grade Levels 4-6)

Practice in developing five steps in writing, writing instructions, descriptive writing, sequence skills, as well as exercises using singulars and plurals, nouns and pronouns, subject-verb agreement, and verb tense. Over thirty lessons with excellent writing exercises and essays..

Writing IV (Grade Levels 4-6)

Reinforcement for Writing III. Assists students in mastery of writing skills with practice in writing to inform and persuade, expressing feelings, advertising, drafting, revising, word sets, comparisons, sentence types, fact and opinion. Also includes exercises using positive and negative, question and statement, sentence construction and combination. Students write about personal experiences and express points of view.

Writing V (Grade Levels 7-9)

Unique two-fold concept gives practice in five writing steps, recognizing and using purpose in writing, taking notes, advertising, communicating through writing, as well as exercises using singulars and plurals, nouns and pronouns, subject-verb agreement, and verb tense. Over forty lessons with excellent writing exercises.

Writing VI (Grade Levels 7-9)

Assists students in mastery of five writing steps, writing purposes, brainstorming, drafting, revising, editing, proofreading, and publishing, as well as practice using positives and negatives, questions and statements, sentence construction and combination..

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