World of Words

Age Range: 12-Adult
Platforms: Mac and Windows
Medium: CD-ROM (optionally, diskette for Mac)
Cost: $69.95 (Lab packs and site licenses are available)

Company: RES Software
Phone: (201) 328-8088

Description:

World of Words is an award-winning, widely reviewed, software program that helps students improve their vocabulary, and is especially useful for those students trying for higher PSAT and SAT verbal scores. It combines text, graphics, and sound to provide multiple ways to learn--something for every student's personal learning style. It can be used both in school and at home as part of a learning program.

World of Words stars a multicultural teenage guide named Luther, who uses vocabulary culled from previous SAT's in stories and illustrations about his favorite bands and musicians. Luther's stories are relevant to teens' own experiences, and thus provide easy "hooks" for learning. Users are given the opportunity to create their own stories and images too--reinforcing vocabulary acquisition in a personally meaningful context.

WOW customizes activities to meet the needs of the individual. Students can interact with material by typing, drawing, and comparing their impressions with the program's information. The program is intended to increase reading comprehension,writing skills, and communication skills.

Target Audience

World of Words is particularly beneficial for high school students preparing for the PSAT/SAT's and the ACT's, middle school students studying for the SSAT's (Secondary School Admissions Test) and people of all ages who want to increase their vocabulary knowledge. WOW is also recommended for such diverse populations as the gifted, the English as a Second Language student, and the learning disabled.

Recognition

1997

Educational Software Preview Guide (ISTE)

1996

Codie Award Finalist
Apple Pick of the Month
Microsoft Windows School Connection Member Spotlight
WOW Word of the Week recognized as one of three quality internet-based educational units (The Discovery Channel School, The National Institute for Science Education, and WOW Word of the Week) . To link to the WOW Word of the Week, click here
Recommended by Duke University Talent Identification Program
Included in Only the Best (ASCD)
Reviewed and recommended by PC Novice

1995

Recommended by Texas Association for the Gifted and Talented
Recommended by North Carolina Department of Public Instruction
Recommended by ASCD Curriculum/Technology Quarterly
Recommended by Mac Home Journal
Recommended in ConnSense Bulletin (Connecticut's Special Education Network for Software Evaluation)
Recommended in The Orton Dyslexia Society Perspectives

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The Education Process Improvement Center, Inc.
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