The Software
+ Information Industry Association (SIIA) established
the Codie Awards in 1986 and it is the longest
-running awards program
in the software and information industry. Classworks is also aligned with
the five key
components of reading instruction: phonemic awareness, phonics,
fluency, vocabulary
and comprehension, as defined by the National
Institute for Literacy and the Partnership for Reading
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Harcourt Education is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc.
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INET Classroom, also
from
Curriculum Advantage, is a comprehensive library of web-based
curriculum linked to state
and national standards. Teachers can generate and view student test reports by
standard and then
diagnose student proficiency, assign intervention, and track
each student's improvement over time
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We are
very pleased to be recognized by SIIA for these qualities. Instruction is more meaningful
and
effective with the Expresate! Online Edition because students are actively
engaged in learning
about Spanish culture while learning the language.
Expresate! is available in Levels 1, 2 and
3 for high-school grades and
Levels 1A and 1B for middle school grades. For further
information
, please call 800-992-1627 or visit http://www.idioms bookshops
net/codies/2005/finalists. Classworks
activities are
correlated to national and state learning standards and
state tests.tefl exercises
SIIA 2005 Codie Awards Recognizes
Curriculum Advantage as Finalist in ``Education Newcomer of the Year'' Category
The Expresate
! Online Edition is the Web-based edition of Expresate!
(C)2006, Holt's newest Spanish program that
employs instructional and
multi-sensory learning techniques to connect students to Spanish-speaking
countries, their arts, culture, and people, while teaching them to converse in
Spanish."
"With the online edition of Expresate!, students can take an active role
in their learning and
find point-of-use resources to reinforce classroom
instruction," said Lawrence Haley, vice president
of world languages for Holt.
Grammar is also emphasized in a new way; in Expresate!, Spanish
grammar is
presented and compared to English grammar rules to facilitate comprehension
giving
students a stronger foundation for learning the language and its
structure.pedagogical slang
Emphasis on these modes
of communication and on the national
foreign language standards helps students hone their language
skills and
develop a greater grasp of the Spanish language and culture. Regarding terminology, 'ESL
' is the term commonly used in the USA, in Canada it is also known as English for Speakers of Other Languages
(ESOL), and in the rest of the world it is known as English as a Foreign Language (EFL).
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"Curriculum
Advantage has focused on building Classworks into a
premier remediation product for the education
marketplace and this
recognition acknowledges that commitment," said Mr. They include prescriptive
and summative assessment,
remediation and reporting tools. "I'm seeing the kids advance
by leaps
and bounds.com or
http://www.
NOTE TO EDITORS: See Holt at the National Educational Computing
Conference in Philadelphia, June 28-30.Websites in this category and its subcategories contain English
as a Second Language (ESL) resources for students and teachers.
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They actually retain the
information
.
"We are especially pleased with the visual and audio elements that give
students a chance to
experience life in many Spanish-speaking countries.exercises efl
Lindsey Cook,
president of Curriculum Advantage
. With the purchase of Classworks in
2003, and after six months of redevelopment, an aggressive development
plan promised new import editions for key states. AUSTIN, Texas, Holt, Rinehart and Winston today
announced the release of Expresate! Premier Online Edition, a Spanish program
for middle and high
school, which offers new interactive and multi-sensory
learning activities for students.
Teachers
using Expresate! find that the copious interactive and multimedia
elements engage students in their
learning and help them build better
communication skills.
About Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Holt, Rinehart and Winston is a leading publisher of textbooks and
educational materials for
grades six through 12 and is part of Harcourt
Education, a global education provider serving students
and teachers in PreK
through grade 12, adult learners, and readers of all ages.harcourt.grammar grammars
The award
is highly-regarded by industry experts and educators.bookshops vocabulary
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(www.Holt Releases Expresate! Online Edition With
SoundBooth Video and More Interaction for Students More Tools for Teachers
Using HOA,
teachers
can assign pre-loaded tests or upload their own tests through the
One-Stop Planner with Test Generator
(R), which then grades the tests
automatically.bookshops encyclopedias
New content
for English as a second language (ESL
) and English Language Learners
(ELL) is being added to help students who are new to the English
language
.
There are new Web-based teaching materials and tools, including Holt
Online Assessment (HOA
), to give teachers a full suite of resources from
lesson planning to evaluation and supplementary
instruction.esol slang
The program acknowledges the
industry's most innovative products and services.
Curriculum
Advantage was incorporated in 2003 and quickly began
revamping Classworks into a relevant teaching
resource for schools
where accountability and informed instruction -- key elements of the
No Child
Left Behind Act of 2001 -- drive many educational technology
purchases. To date, every
development
benchmark has been achieved and the final count for state
import editions includes Texas, Florida
, Pennsylvania, Georgia, New
York and Illinois, as well as a Scantron Performance Series import
edition
. The Harcourt
companies are Harcourt School Publishers; Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Harcourt
Achieve
(including the Rigby, Steck-Vaughn, and Saxon imprints); Harcourt
Assessment; Classroom Connect;
and Harcourt Trade Publishers.bookshops dictionaries
Classworks
includes 8,600 learning activities from dozens of favorite
educational
software programs, all of which are correlated with National Education
Standards in
math and language arts. They can shift between tenses. Booth 2136.
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siia. Curriculum
Advantage
's flagship product is Classworks, a network-based system of
K-12 reading and mathematics curriculum
and learning tools that
currently comprise over 4,300 hours of curriculum.
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.com), which is a world-leading publisher and information
provider.bookshops translators
Sixty hours of algebra and pre
-algebra resources have also
been added to a new Algebra Series for Classworks. They also can choose
from point-of-use, self-grading workbooks, Holt's exclusive voice recording
feature called Holt
SoundBooth, a searchable grammar bank, an Electronic
Notebook, and a travel log Photo Tour for each
featured location."
The Expresate! Online Edition mirrors the approach of the print textbook
and addresses three modes of communication identified by the American Council
on the Teaching
of Foreign Languages: presentational, interpretive, and
interpersonal. Holt offers an advanced
three-level Spanish program for heritage speakers and AP students called
Nuevas vistas.
(http:
//www.tefl grammars
Curriculum Advantage was selected as one of
three finalists in the Education Newcomer of the
Year category.curriculumadvantage.
Classworks is a recognized reading resource worthy of purchase
using Title II, Part D funds as allocated by the No Child Left Behind
Act of 2001 (NCLB). Classworks
is installed in 2,000
schools in the United States and worldwide. "Expresate! is very communicative
," said Erin Bethea, a
Spanish teacher at Revere High School in Ohio.nuzzi learners
"Today's educators are looking
for
companies that listen to their needs, that respond quickly with
product enhancements, and
that have partnerships with other companies
that further refine their product for customer ease of
use. It is owned equally by Reed Elsevier PLC (NYSE: RUK) and Reed
Elsevier NV (NYSE: ENL).slang learners
com),
which is a network-based system of K-12
reading and mathematics curriculum and learning tools. Classworks
had been in use in classrooms since 1993 but
lacked a learning management system and direct ties
to assessment data
which would allow high-stakes test data and other benchmarking
assessments
to guide instruction. The Web-based medium allows students to select over 40 hours of
visual and
audio resources at the click of a button.tefl bookshops
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LOS ANGELES----Curriculum Advantage,
Inc. More than 1,000
nominations were submitted for
the 2005 awards
(www.com.idioms esl
Teachers can also use the
Classworks benchmarking assessments to obtain
reports about how well
students understand particular standards and thus assign remediation
work
, all automatic features of the Classworks system.twisters teachers
About Curriculum Advantage
Curriculum
Advantage, Inc.twisters efl
announced today that it was named a finalist in the 2005 Codie
Awards, an awards
program established by the Software + Information
Industry Association (SIIA) to recognize innovative
products,
services, and companies.asp), which were evaluated by a
broad panel of judges consisting
of software trade journalists,
mainstream technology writers and experts in educational technology
."
Curriculum Advantage's leading product is Classworks
(www. Classworks State Editions are
further
aligned to the learning standards of 15 states so that
teachers can more closely tie their teaching
to the core concepts and
competencies prescribed by their state.com) has
offices in Los Angeles;
Austin, Texas; and Wayne, Neb.hrw. ESL is the learning and teaching of the English language to people
who are not native speakers of English, that is, that do not have English as their mother tongue.
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