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Apangea Learning Apangea Learning provides affordable, engaging, online tutoring that uses individualized instruction. They have helped more than 150,000 students achieve their academic goals by building confidence and problem solving through award winning web-based math tutoring services for middle schools and high schools. Apangea programs provide one-student-to-one-teacher differentiated instruction through a unique integration of tutoring technology and live, online certified teachers. Apangea has both strong technical resources and a content-development prowess that enables it to harness advanced web technologies and offer innovative instruction techniques. Connecting Math Concepts Connecting Math Concepts teaches explicit strategies that enable students to master new and progressively more complex topics. A balanced emphasis on computation and problem solving ensures conceptual understanding and procedural mastery, giving students a well-rounded view of Math. A gradual yet intensive curriculum addresses concepts in short takes over many lessons to maximize learning. Teacher-directed lessons make difficult concepts clear and easy for students to understand.
Corrective Math Carefully structured practice develops skills students need to learn efficiently from instructional materials by helping them.
Corrective Reading Corrective Reading is for struggling students. The consistently explicit, sequential, and systematic instruction of Corrective Reading promises:
Jr. Great Books / Roundtable promotes the thoughtful, respectful exchange of ideas and civil discourse, essential for the success of democracy. They value literature, great literature, literature that has the capacity to inspire and thrill generations of readers. They seek to empower readers of all ages to become more reflective and responsible thinkers. To accomplish this, students are taught the art of civil discourse through the Shared Inquiry™ method and publish enduring works across the disciplines. Great Books Foundation Shared Inquiry is a discussion method, a teaching and learning environment, and a way for individuals to achieve a more thorough understanding of a text by discussing questions, responses, and insights with fellow readers.
Language for Learning (ELL Support Plan) Language for Learning is a language program designed to teach young pre-readers language, concepts, information, and knowledge that will be beneficial to them in a classroom setting as they are learning to read. It was written to teach oral language skills to five and six-year-old children whose language is inadequately developed, to four-year-old preschoolers, to primary students for whom English is their second language, to Title 1 and special education students, and to children in speech/language classes. Language for Learning is comprised of six learning strands: actions, descriptions of objects, information and background knowledge, instructional words and problem-solving concepts, classification, and problem-solving strategies.
Read 180 READ 180 is an intensive reading intervention program that helps educators confront the problem of adolescent illiteracy and special needs reading on multiple fronts, using technology, print, and professional development. READ 180 is proven to meet the needs of struggling readers whose reading achievement is below proficient level. The program directly addresses individual needs through differentiated instruction, adaptive and instructional software, high-interest literature, and direct instruction in reading, writing, and vocabulary skills.
Reading Mastery Reading Mastery Reading Mastery Signature Edition is proven to help students decode and comprehend the meaning of print effortlessly, even students who are seriously at risk of failure.
Read to Achieve Read to Achieve targets the key components research has shown to be critical in the development of reading proficiency: text comprehension, decoding, vocabulary, and fluency. Essential tools and work strategies in the program prepare students to digest content and text independently, including:
SpringBoard SpringBoard® is the foundational component for the College Board's College Readiness System, offering a proven Pre-AP program that increases participation and prepares a greater diversity of students for success in AP, college and beyond – without remediation. Based on College Board Standards for College Success and aligned to the Common Core State Standards, SpringBoard offers the only integrated college readiness solution that includes a rigorous curriculum, formative assessments and sustainable professional development. |
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