How to Read for Everyday Living

How to Read For Everyday Living Educational Activities Software Survival and real-life reading skills are the focus of this program. Students learn to read labels, menus, ads, job ads, job applications, banking forms, travel schedules, maps, and other items critical to a person’s day-to-day life. This program’s 21 lessons are a combination of readings, vocabulary, practice fill-ins, quizzes, and puzzles to check reinforce comprehension. Overview |   About   |   Scope and Sequence  |   Real Achievement  |  System Requirements   |  Prices and Packages

Overview

How to Read For Everyday Living

Survival and real-life reading skills are the focus of this program. Students learn to read labels, menus, ads, job ads, job applications, banking forms, travel schedules, maps, and other items critical to a person’s day-to-day life. This program’s 21 lessons are a combination of readings, vocabulary, practice fill-ins, quizzes, and puzzles to check reinforce comprehension.

How to Read for Everyday Living is designed to be used by students in grades seven through 12 and by adults who are reading at a fourth- to fifth-grade level. After using this program, students will be better equipped to apply reading skills to everyday life.

In addition, extensive reinforcement is given to developing thinking skills, following directions, recalling details, establishing a specialized vocabulary, inferring, solving problems, and applying these skills to filling out forms and applications used in survival life skills.

Real Achievement

Real Achievement is a coordinated system of instructional solutions designed to develop skill competencies in older students and adults. Real Achievement is:

Responsive

Real Achievement is responsive to the needs of older learners and their educators. Real Achievement’s primary goal is to build the necessary basic and problem-solving skills that these older students need to succeed in academic institutions or in the workplace. Emphasis is always on time-on-task learning and building confidence that leads to success. Older students will feel that this software is designed specifically for them. Real Achievement is also responsive to your computer installation and to your budget for instructional materials. Our wide range of purchasing options, ranging from one-computer licenses to unlimited network/site licenses, along with special saving on comprehensive solution packages, allows Real Achievement to fit within your particular requirements.

Efficient

Real Achievement is an efficient instructional solution. Students can begin with simple skills, develop competency with them and use the previously learned skills to develop more complex ones. Mastery at each skill level provides the foundation for learning and potential success at the next level. Learners are always encouraged to use what they have mastered and to transfer these skills from the academic setting to functional settings, such as employment or daily living. Most of our programs allow learners to work through a lesson within 20 to 30 minutes. If students run out of time, their status is bookmarked and they can return to where they left off during their next instructional session at the computer. Efficiency is enhanced by several simple and quick assessment tools that determine where students should begin within the program and what is their preferred learning style.

Accountable

Real Achievement offers simple but powerful accountability to teachers. Our management system tracks student progress on individual skill levels for an unlimited number of students while indicating how much time a student has spent on each skill. Management data can be tracked by individual student or by class. Special reports, such as student-to-class comparisons, can be generated quite easily. Most importantly, all Real Achievement programs work under the same common universal management system. This allows teachers to review student progress across all programs a student has worked with or is still working on with one simple keystroke. This important feature saves the teacher a considerable amount of time while providing maximum accountability.

Learning

Real Achievement offers comprehensive content that is closely correlated to national and state-specific test. Our solutions provide learners with a variety of instructional formats, including tutorials, simulations, remediation and other formats that appear to a variety of learning styles. Lessons present effective branching as well as feedback that is positive, constant, and appropriate for older learners. This ensures an interactive and responsive experience that both enriches and enhances the learning process.

System Requirements

Minimum system requirements:

Windows: Hard Drive, CD-ROM drive, 486/66 or better processor, Windows 95 or above, 16 MB RAM, 256-color display capability, Sound Card (recommended), Printer (optional)

Macintosh: Hard Drive, CD-ROM drive, System 7.0 or higher, 16 MB free RAM, 256-color display capability, Printer (optional)

Packages and Prices