Covers core language arts competencies necessary to prepare a student for college level work.

Contains a wide variety of instructional activities effective in increasing a student's reading, vocabulary, writing, and grammar skills.

Texts and formats suitable for older students. Lessons are self-paced and self-correcting.

The questions, answers and explanations of the programs can be spoken aloud by using the Merit Text Talker.

Student scores are tracked in a record management system that allows instructors and students to view results and print reports.

The Language Arts Bundle for College Prep is comprised of the following four curriculum components: Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, Grammar, and Writing. Skill Levels 9 - 12.

• Contextual 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.
• Voice support is available with most of the English programs.

The Reading Comprehension section of the Language Arts Bundle for College Prep consists of the following titles:

• Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Upper Grades, Sets 3 and 4
  Helps students improve reading comprehension.
  
  
• Accu-Reading, Set 2
  Helps students master specific reading skills.
  

The Vocabulary section of the Language Arts Bundle for College Prep consists of the following titles:

• Vocabulary Fitness, Set 2
  Builds students' understanding of commonly misused words.
  
  
• Vocabulary Super Stretch, Sets 1 and 2
  Helps students with word recognition, meanings, and origins of challenging words.
  

The Grammar section of the Language Arts Bundle for College Prep consists of the following titles:

• Grammar Fitness For Upper Grades, Sets 3 and 4
  Students learn to master troublesome points of grammar.
  
  
• Write It Right, Set 2
  Students learn to correct common problems in writing.
  
  

The Writing section of the Language Arts Bundle for College Prep consists entirely of one (1) program - Essay Punch

• Essay Punch
  Takes students through the steps of writing an essay.
  
  

2008 Reading Comprehension - Language Arts Bundle for College Prep
Concepts covered:

• Determine main idea of text and select a sentence to introduce or complete it
• Understand the relationship between title and main idea
• Identify sequence of details from reading passages
• Draw inferences from text by using vocabulary or organizational patterns
• Draw conclusions by choosing salient information from text
• Differentiate between fact and opinion
• Recall facts and details

• 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
• Practice proofreading

• Develop a variety of strategies to analyze words
• Use context and word structure clues
• Gain effective word choice skills

• Develop an effective organizational pattern for an essay
• Use supporting ideas, details, and facts to develop and elaborate topics
• Analyze and revise a draft to further develop an essay