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Reading Strategies For Career Success
Sharpens students' ability to understand and interpret career
related materials.
Sharpens the ability
of career-oriented students to understand, interpret,
and analyze written materials on a variety of employment-related
topics.
Students work in a format that includes multiple-choice
reading comprehension questions, finding the context clue
to an answer, and writing their own sentences for each text.
Context clues and help words are provided throughout.
Scores are kept in a record management system that
allows teachers to view and print records.
The questions, answers and explanations of the programs can be spoken aloud by using the Merit Text Talker.
Designed for students in grades 8 through 11 (ages
13 and up), the software can also be used by English language
learners and adult students.
"Reaches
students who couldn't be reached otherwise."
-- Kennedy High School, Chicago, IL
Curriculum
Set 1: Reading Strategies For Career Success, Skill Levels
8 - 9
Set 2: Reading Strategies For Career Success, Skill Levels
10 to Adult
Each set contains 36 passages and 360 questions.
Contextual help and feedback engage students of all ages.
Students choose from a menu of reward animations and
sounds.
All student work is stored in the Teacher Program Manager.
Content can be spoken aloud by using the Merit Text Talker.
Students will...
Determine the meaning of unfamiliar words by using other
words or phrases in the text as clues.
Learn the correct pronunciation of vocabulary words.
Extract salient information from texts.
Use vocabulary and organizational patterns to infer meaning
from text.
Demonstrate comprehension of a text by writing sentences
using key words.
All versions of this Merit Software Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP program require 8 MB RAM and 40 MB hard disk space. This program requires a minimum screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels.