ESL Advanced Skills Pack
Reading / Vocabulary and Writing / Grammar
Skills Pack Curriculum
Concepts covered:
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Consists of a group of Merit Software programs bundled together, selected to target reading, vocabulary, grammar, and listening and speaking skills. The complete series contains a wide variety of teaching activities that have been proven effective in increasing students’ English language proficiency.
Content is relevant to real-life situations. Topics include civics, government, health, transportation, American culture, history, and technology.
The software is self-paced and self-correcting. Students advance as they demonstrate readiness.
Scores are tracked in a record management system that allows teachers to view and print detailed reports.
The questions, answers and explanations for most of the programs can be spoken aloud by using the Merit Text Talker.
The ESL Advanced Skills Pack is comprised of the following two curriculum components: Content is relevant to real-life situations. Topics include civics, government, health, transportation, American culture, history, and technology.
The software is self-paced and self-correcting. Students advance as they demonstrate readiness.
Scores are tracked in a record management system that allows teachers to view and print detailed reports.
The questions, answers and explanations for most of the programs can be spoken aloud by using the Merit Text Talker.
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- Mt. San Antonio Community College, Walnut, CA
Reading / Vocabulary and Writing / Grammar
- Personalized help and feedback engage students of all ages.
- Students choose from a menu of reward animations and sounds.
- All student work is stored in the Teacher Program Manager.
- Contents can be spoken aloud by using the Merit Text Talker.
Grammar/Writing ESL Advanced
Skills Pack Curriculum
Concepts covered:
Reading / Vocabulary ESL AdvancedSkills Pack Curriculum
Concepts covered:
- Recognize common errors in word usage
- Identify parts of speech in context sentences
- Identify common writing problems
- Use pre-writing strategies
- Correct faulty sentence structure
- Review basic punctuation
- Write clear, descriptive sentences
- Organize ideas
- Develop a paragraph
- Practice proofreading
Skills Pack Curriculum
Concepts covered:
- Listen to words, sentences, and questions
- Identify sequence of details
- Draw inferences from text
- Draw conclusions
- Understand vocabulary from context
- Use contextual clues
- Increase word recognition
- Differentiate fact from opinion
- Recall facts and details
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(listed alphabetically)
- Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Effective Reading, Sets 1 and 2
Helps students improve reading comprehension. - Vocabulary Fitness, Set 2
Builds students understanding of commonly misused words. - Vocabulary Stretch, Set 2
Helps students with word recognition, meanings, and origins.
The Grammar / Writing ESL Advanced Skills Pack consists of the following titles:
(listed alphabetically)
- Basic English Fitness, Set 2
Helps students cope with troublesome points of English grammar. - Grammar Fitness, Set 2
Helps students cope with troublesome points of grammar and usage. - Grammar Shape-Up
Students learn to master the parts of speech. - Paragraph Punch
Guides students through the steps of writing a paragraph.
The ESL Advanced Skills Pack consists of two curriculum components. Among the two components are 7 separate software programs that have been effective in improving students' basic reading, writing and math skills.
Evaluation versions of all of the programs may be downloaded by clicking the 'Download Demo' link for the corresponding program (each program approximately 10 MB).
Reading / Vocabulary ESL Advanced Skills Curriculum:
- Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Effective Reading: Download Demo | Screenshots | More Info
- Vocabulary Fitness, Set 2: Download Demo | Screenshots | More Info
- Vocabulary Stretch, Set 2: Download Demo | Screenshots | More Info
Grammar / Writing ESL Advanced Skills Curriculum:
- Basic English Fitness, Set 2: Download Demo | Screenshots | More Info
- Grammar Fitness, Set 2: Download Demo | Screenshots | More Info
- Grammar Shape-Up: Download Demo | Screenshots | More Info
- Paragraph Punch: Download Demo | Screenshots | More Info
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PRICING INFORMATION: Represents a substantial discount compared to purchasing programs separately.
* Special pricing until June 26, 2013. All versions of Merit programs come with the Teacher Program Manager which allows for student record keeping. |
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