 | Starting Off: prepares children for reading the story with
activities that stimulate prior knowledge and help students construct a
knowledge base for new ideas. |
| Story Time: enables children to read and listen to stories with the
help of digitized human voices on the computer. |
| Thinking About: activities extend reading comprehension by
encouraging students to think back and respond to what they have read.
Students are asked to re-sequence story events, identify relationships and
themes from stories and make inferences about situations from their reading.
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| Going Beyond: students write what they know or think about story
ideas and relate them to experiences in their own lives. The program
provides immediate feedback by reading back the students' responses through
computer-synthesized speech. |
| The Teaching and Learning with Computers (TLC) Guides that
accompany each Stories and More product provides ideas and activities to
extend student experiences with the literature and to encourage integration
across multiple curriculum areas. |
More than 25 years of research clearly demonstrates the important role of
storybook reading in literacy development. As stated in BECOMING A NATION OF
READERS, "The single most important activity for building the knowledge
required for eventual success in reading is reading aloud to children."
Good children's literature allows children to go beyond the controlled
vocabulary that is characteristic of many reading series. Traditional and
contemporary fiction and nonfiction children's literature contain the creative
and figurative language and imagery that engage children's interest.
The Stories and More Series was developed to take full advantage of all
technology has to offer, providing successful reading experiences with high
interest and high content literature for young students. Successful reading
experiences encourage them to develop reading skills and love literature.
Classroom Environment
Stories and More can be implemented in a classroom and supports Teaching and
Learning with Computers (TLC). The Teacher Guide contains rich collections of
suggestions and ideas for centers, while providing for whole group, small group,
and collaborative student activities. These activities extend the literature to
other curriculum areas such as social studies, science, mathematics, art and
drama.
The Stories and More curriculum is organized around the
TLC (Teaching and Learning with Computers) approach to classroom instruction
where computers, hands-on lab materials and print media are all components of
activity centers that offer opportunities for students to explore a concept in a
variety of modalities and interpret their understanding from multiple
experiences.
Stories and More
I and II support the following centers:
- Computer Center
- Guide Center
- Science corner
- Lab Corner
- Library Corner
These centers offer teachers flexibility to include a wide
range of materials while allowing students
to explore concepts in a variety of modalities. The Teacher’s Guide provides support through lesson plans as well as reproducible
masters. The Teacher’s Guide also includes integration ideas
for math, science, social studies and art as well as ideas for classroom
management, assessment, and home/school connections.
Awards - Stories and More I and II
Product
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Supported
OS
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Workstation
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NOS
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Disk
Space
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Stories and More
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W95 osr2, W98 SE, W2K Pro SP1, XP Pro
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P133 800x600
16 bit 32 MB
(Audio)
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Novell 3,4,5,6 w/ Minimum patch list, WINNT SP4, W2K
Server SP2
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1.1
GB for Program
200 KB per user
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Stories and More II
|
W95 osr2, W98 SE, W2K Pro SP1, XP Pro
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P133 800x600
16 bit 32 MB
(Audio)
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Novell 3,4,5,6 w/ Minimum patch list, WINNT SP4, W2K
Server SP2
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700 MB for Program
200 KB per user
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