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On Track Reading Series 5 CD Set
Includes Alphabet Track, Eye Track, Phoneme Track, Spell Track, and Word Track
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On Track Reading Series 5 CD Set
Grade Kindergarten-4, Inclusion,
switch accessible
The On Track series is designed to develop basic skills in phonemic
awareness, phonics, fluency, and vocabulary. Research based and
fully accessible, it's ideal for "Reading First" programs, special
ed, and inclusion classrooms. The series includes:
Eye Track - Designed to support learners of all ages experiencing
difficulty with visual perception. Activities cover visual
discrimination, visual memory, and visual closure.
Alphabet Track - Eight customizable activities help students locate
letters quickly and consistently. Designed for inclusion teaching,
students acquire spelling independence, learn letter names, practice
ordering, improve short term memory, and recall alphabetic sequence.
Phoneme Track - Practice areas of phonemic weakness, and increase
fluency in reading and spelling. The learner hears phonemes in words
and sees the written representation of the phonemes. Activities
include phoneme take-away, changes, and chains.
Spell Track - Learners ranging from pre-school to dyslexic adults
will appreciate Spell Track's expertly designed, multi-sensory
activities in: phonemic awareness, left-to-right tracking, word
recognition, sequencing, segmenting, blending, and proofreading.
Word Track - Switch users, young students, and learners of all ages
with specific learning needs will practice tracking words in the
context of 180 sentences, arranged in order of increasing phonic
complexity. Develops visual discrimination, proofreading, and
high-frequency words.
Minimum system requirements
Win 95+, Pentium 133 MHz, 32MB RAM, sound card.
Mac OSX compatible
Related Products
• Grammar 1 & 2
• Phoneme Track Workbook
• Phonics System
• Sound Activities & Sound Stories 2 CD Set
• Spell Track Workbook
• Word Track Workbook
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Alphabet Track
Pre-school children can get a head start on the path
to academic success by practicing with Alphabet Track, and older
learners who may struggle with reading challenges such as dyslexia
will also benefit from the motivating activities. Learners will finally get a
solid grasp on their abc's with this first program of the
literacy skill-building Track Series. In addition to
helping students learn the names of letters and practice
alphabetical order, this software helps improve short term
memory as it asks students to recall alphabetic sequence. By
learning to recognize and locate letters of the alphabet
quickly and consistently, students of all levels will
acquire more spelling independence and be on track for
developing dictionary skills and other vital literacy
skills.
With Alphabet Track, students move through 8 fun
activities at their own pace. All the activities are
switch-accessible and fully configurable to meet each
student's individual needs. For example, students may decide
to replace the program's built-in audio with their own voice
reciting the alphabet and pronouncing each letter. The
alphabet arc format used in each activity serves as an
effective visual prompt to help students become more
confident with their alphabetic knowledge.
Activities:
Order the alphabet-drag letters to their correct
position in the arc.
Type the alphabet-type each letter in order after
hearing it pronounced.
Match and identify-type the same letter you see shown on
the screen.
Alphabet quiz-answer questions such as "What letter
comes after g?" and "What is the vowel in sit?" by typing
the correct letter.
See and remember-type the letter after it disappears
from the screen.
Hear and remember-type the letter after it is spoken.
Spell the word-listen to a word and then spell it by
dragging letter from the arc.
Alphabet battle -place letters in the correct order in
the arc as they appear on the screen.
Teacher options:
View records of student progress.
Set preferred screen color, as well as the case and font
of letters.
Choose from three levels of difficulty.
Turn activities on or off.
Record the alphabet in your own voice or student's
voice.
This program is ideal for "Reading First" programs, special
education, and inclusion classes. The purchase of any single
program in the "On Track" series can be applied later to the
purchase of the entire "On Track" series.
Minimum system requirements
Win
95,
Pentium 133
MH,
32 MB RAM, sound card.
Mac
OSX compatible
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Eye Track
Grades Kindergarten-1, Inclusion;
switch accessible
There are 4 main activities covering all areas of visual perception including:
- Visual discrimination
- Visual memory
- Visual sequential memory
- Visual spatial relationships
- Visual form consistency
- Visual figure ground
- Visual closure
Students use visual information in a variety of ways to recognize,
recall, discriminate, and make meaning of what they see.
Difficulties with visual perception can affect a student's fine
motor skills, especially for activities such as writing, completing
puzzles, cutting with scissors, and daily activities. Eye Track is
designed to support learners of all ages experiencing difficulty
with visual perception.
Eye Track is ideal for the inclusive classroom, because activities
are carefully differentiated and focused:
Keys - Develop visual discrimination and spatial orientation.
Cells - Improve visual figure ground skills.
Wanted Poster - Work on visual discrimination, visual memory and
visual closure.
Cars - Develop visual memory and visual sequential memory.
Each activity has 5 levels of difficulty, which are set via
teacher controls. Fun and motivational reward sequences encourage
the user to persevere with the increasingly complex activities.
Printable records show details of activities completed.
Fun, simple and easy-to-use
Eye Track is an excellent resource for students with dyslexia,
dyspraxia, or attention deficit disorders. Health Services agencies
and Occupational Therapist will find this program invaluable for use
with clients.
Minimum system requirements
Win 95+, P133 MHz, 32 MB RAM, Sound card
Mac OSX compatible
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Phoneme Track
Grades Kindergarten-2, Inclusion;
switch accessible
This program increases confidence with reading and spelling
more complex words. Phoneme
Track encourages learners to develop phonemic awareness by encouraging lots
of talking, listening and playing with sounds.
The learner hears phonemes in words and sees the written representation of
the phonemes. Activities provide practice with phoneme manipulation,
segmentation, and blending so that the student can become confident with
this essential skill for fluent reading and spelling.
Tasks include:
- Phoneme Take-Aways - "bill" take away phoneme "b" = ill
- Phoneme Changes - replace phoneme "o" in "log" with "e" = leg
- Phoneme Chains - hear a sequence of five words. Change one phoneme at a
time to give the correct chain such as "cot-cut-hut-hug-jug".
Teacher controls allow for customizing levels of difficulty, adjusting color
for sight disabled students, and all student records can be tracked and
printed for easy reporting.
Phoneme Track was developed to support learners in their acquisition of
vital literacy skills in the inclusive classroom. The program is appropriate
for older users, those with specific phonological difficulties, and for
mainstream teaching of early learners. Research-based, this program is ideal
for "Reading First" programs.
The purchase of any single program in the "On Track" series can be applied
later to the purchase of the entire "On Track" series.
Minimum system requirements
Win 95-XP,
Pentium, 133 MHz, 32MB RAM, sound card
Mac
OSX
compatible
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Spell Track
Grades Kindergarten-3, Inclusion;
switch accessible
This second CD-ROM in the
switch accessible
Track Series provides the highest quality spelling practice for students
on the path toward optimal reading development. Learners ranging
from the pre-school child to the dyslexic adult will appreciate
Spell Track's expertly designed, multi-sensory activities while they
work at their own pace on essential literacy skills such as:
phonemic awareness, left-to-right tracking, word recognition,
sequencing, segmenting, blending, and proofreading. Teachers can add
word lists and write sentences tailored for each learner, making
this a versatile tool for mainstream, inclusion, and special
education settings.
Students and teachers choose from a large, built-in bank of
word lists, or they may also customize the program by
creating their own word lists and sentences. In the main,
easy-to-use module, students read a word in bold type and
simultaneously listen to its pronunciation. They then click
on the appropriate letters in a line of other randomly
selected letters in order to "track" the word they just saw
and heard, one letter at a time. The clearly-spoken audio
recordings may be replayed as many times as necessary. Once
students have tracked a word, they reinforce the correct
spelling by typing the word which will complete a sentence
displayed on the screen. Finally, after working with five
words, students further practice their spelling skills by
listening to and then typing each word.
The "Test Yourself" module of Spell Track also encourages
active learning and helps students to reinforce their
growing mastery of high frequency and other key vocabulary
words. Resulting from years of classroom research, this
proven method of training will help with:
Left to right scanning (to avoid omissions and reversals).
Word recognition.
Phonemic awareness.
Segmenting.
Sequencing.
Blending.
Spelling strategies such as the 'look, cover, type,
check' technique.
Visual discrimination.
Special features include:
Full record-keeping capability.
Comprehensive workbook to reinforce learning away from
the computer.
Teacher options to select or create word lists, set
background and text colors, set difficulty level.
Switch compatibility for special education usage.
A Test Yourself feature gives immediate feedback on
progress.
This program is ideal for "Reading First" programs, special
education, and inclusion classes. The Spell Track Workbook
is also sold separately as a perfect companion to the Spell
track CD-ROM. It is full of photocopiable extension
activities that use the same practical approach to improving
spelling.
Minimum system requirements:
Win 95 or higher, P-133 MHz, 32 MB RAM,
sound card
Mac OSX compatible
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Word Track
Grades 2-4, Inclusion;
switch accessible
Students take their
literacy skills to the next level as they advance
through the rewarding activities in Word Track, the
third program in the Track Series. Switch users,
young students, and learners of all ages with
specific learning needs will make important progress
as they practice spelling words in the context of
180 sentences. As with Alphabet Track and Spell
Track, Word Track provides learners with a
non-threatening environment in which to practice key
spelling strategies at their own pace. Clear audio
support and fully configurable teacher options are
just some of the features that make this software so
effective and easy-to-use.
The 180 sentences included in the program are
arranged in order of increasing phonic complexity,
and teachers may choose the sentences for each
session as well as print a report of each student's
progress. As the student begins the activities, a
sentence is shown on the screen and simultaneously
spoken by the audio. Once the sentence disappears,
the student tracks it by clicking to circle, in
order, the correct words from amongst a string of
other words. The appropriate punctuation mark must
also be tracked. Finally, students type the sentence
with correct capitalization and punctuation. As a
reward, the program colors in and animates an
illustration shown with the sentence.
The program is easily individualized for each
learner through the teacher options. For example,
teachers may set the length of time that each
sentence is shown on the screen or even choose to
have the sentences always remain on-screen for
learners with difficulty with memory. A workbook
full of photocopiable activity sheets, sold
separately, is also available with the CD-Rom.
The activities in Word Track help students develop
the following skills:Visual discrimination
Proof reading.
Reading and spelling of high frequency words and
words prone to letter-order mistakes.
The use of the 'look, say, remember, type,
check' spelling strategy.
Keyboard awareness and typing skills.
Grammar skills such as punctuation and
capitalization.
Win 95-XP,Pentium 133 MHz,
32MB RAM, sound card
Mac
OSX compatible
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