Narrators read the stories, accompanied by background music and sound effects. Color photographs, word and syllable pronunciations in English and Spanish, and interactive picture buttons let students explore and learn. The features can be customized by teachers. The stories are Exploring the Solar System and Beyond, Animals and How They Grow, Our Earth, People Behind the Holidays, Seasons, The Human Body, A World of Plants, and A World of Animals. Includes speech recognition for answers.
Primary focus is on basic language concepts.
In each lesson, information is presented in the form of narratives via sound and graphics with text, glossary, speech record, and repetition always available to the student. Grammatical and lexical knowledge is reinforced in all games and exercises along with listening comprehension. The program adjusts the level of difficulty of the questions to the student s demonstrated level of proficiency. Placement Testing, Mastery Testing and a Records Manager System allow teachers to track an unlimited number of students. With this program learners work through words from the University Word List, the 2000 most common words in academic English.