Three levels of play and four game environments are featured. Language Arts Courtside Reading , a supplemental multimedia reading program, lets students take on the role of sports reporters gathering research from player interviews and articles. The box set includes a CD-ROM and 40 reading cards with information about and interviews with NBA and WNBA players including Gary Payton, Allan Houston, and Teresa Weatherspoon. Language Skills , a series developed for grades 3-6, provides students with customized focused practice, immediate feedback, and test prep activities designed to help them become confident writers. Each grade level covers 96 grade-appropriate skill sets with activities in three major categories grammar and usage, sentences, and mechanics.
Exercises become progressively difficult.
Based on the foundation skills in the Language Skills books series. Vowel Patterns , for grades 1-3, helps students to explore the ways that single vowel sounds can be made of more than one letter, as well as the ways that certain consonant and vowel patterns can influence the sound of a vowel. Activities include identifying vowel sounds, sorting pictures into groups, building words, reading and sorting words, and composing rhymes, sentences, and dialog. Designed by Tenth Planet. Mathematics Boxer Geometry features 102 activities in nine topic areas, forming a full year of lessons from Foundations of Geometry to Fractals and Impossible Problems from Antiquity.