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Solutions / Improving Reading / Remedial Reading


Solutions / Improving Reading:
MERIT SOFTWARE KEY BENEFITS:

In-depth Instruction - Provides a structured and supportive environment that enables college prep students to apply skills while they are learning.

Intensive Concentration - When students encounter areas of difficulty, they can choose to access several forms of assistance. Explanations, tips, examples, and options to retry skills maximize learning opportunities.

Personalized Feedback - Context-sensitive tips help college prep students accept responsibility for their weaknesses and build their confidence as learners.

Automatic Scoring - Teachers are able to quickly measure student areas of concern, using our Teacher Program Manager, and plan lessons in response to specific needs.

Learn more about how Merit helps teachers, tutors and students achieve academic success.
Remedial Reading

Reading skills software can be a great tool to accomplish these tasks. Particularly if the programs offer students constructive feedback and provide teachers with measurable results.

Merit Software reading skills programs were designed with these features in mind. Many teachers have reported that they have been effective in helping them teach critical reading in classroom and lab settings.

Reading Comprehension Booster
Helps students improve reading comprehension.
DESIGNED FOR READING LEVELs: 3 - 5
  • For students working on comprehension and main idea.
  • Several skill questions based on reading one passage.
Developing Critical Thinking Skills for Effective Reading
Helps students improve reading comprehension.
DESIGNED FOR READING LEVELs: 5 - 8
  • For students working on main idea, sequence, and inference.
  • Several skill questions based on reading each non-fiction passage.
Vocabulary Stretch
Helps students with word recognition, meanings, and origins.
DESIGNED FOR GRADE LEVELs: 4 - 9
  • Best program to help students improve their vocabulary.
  • Teaches students prefixes, roots, suffixes, and word origins.
Paragraph Punch
Helps students learn different ways to write a paragraph.
DESIGNED FOR GRADE LEVELs: 5 - 10
  • Interactive, step-by-step writing prompts
  • Built-in tips guide students while they work
Grammar Fitness
Helps students master troublesome points of grammar.
DESIGNED FOR GRADE LEVELs: 4 - 8
  • Enhances recognition of common errors in mechanics, usage, and punctuation.
  • Students work on a single concept, or in a mixed-practice format.
Reading Shape-Up, Set 1
Teaches students basic reading skills.
DESIGNED FOR READING LEVELs: 3 - 8
  • Best program to start with for students who need help.
  • One multiple-choice skill question per passage.
  • Texts are primarily fiction.