BRAINtastic! Word Skills V2 ages 7-11

Give every child a positive and empowering language experience with BRAINtastic! Word Skills. The carefully sequenced activities build vital practical language skills to promote confidence in understanding and using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation.

BRAINtastic! Word Skills is full of quirky characters, terrible puns and clever word plays, modelling the enjoyment of language for all learning styles. Motivation is maximised with 3 cool reward games.

Series Overview

• Ages 5-15+
• Over 3,200 carefully-crafted activities across 3 CDs, each covering at least 3 years of schooling
• Promotes higher-order language thinking and problem-solving skills
• Builds vital practical language skills and promotes confidence in understanding and using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
• Carefully builds recognition of words that use both simple and complex spelling patterns.
• Expands and enriches vocabulary and stimulates children’s ability to use words in context
• Fosters understanding and enjoyment of language
• Identifies and systematically resolves the more baffling confusions of English spelling, and other common misunderstandings.
• Provides hints, guidance and explanations of more difficult concepts in spelling, grammar and punctuation
• Fully correlated with the literacy curricula for K-10 of each Australian State and New Zealand to cover the majority of outcomes related to word skills.

Educational Content Overview

The educational content of BRAINtastic! Word Skills covers:

• Letter tracking, matching, sorting and recognition
• Preparatory skills for very young readers and spellers
• Spelling patterns & rules, including phonics
• Prefixes & suffixes
• Synonyms & antonyms
• Homophones, homographs, homonyms
• Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, connectives
• Regular and irregular verbs
• Word origins including idioms, clichés, metaphors, similes, etc
• Punctuation
• Grammar convention

CD2 Features

•Ages 7-11 years

•Over 1,200 age-appropriate learning activities

•Builds and consolidates practical literacy proficiencies.

•Promotes confidence in using basic functional elements of language – spelling, grammar and punctuation.

Educational Content

Over 4 years of educational content in carefully sequenced levels that:

•Build understanding of common spelling patterns and rules

•Establish command of grammar and punctuation fundamentals

•Expand and enrich vocabulary, with a focus on prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homographs and homonyms

Title Contains

•BRAINtastic! Central Control

•Word Skills TWO Content Module

•Three Reward Games: Samurai Sculpt, Extreme Super Heroes and Hamster Hospital

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Braintastic Word Skills V2 System Requirements

PC

Windows XP SP2, Vista, Windows 7; Pentium IV 600MHz Processor or faster, cd-rom drive

Mac
OS X (PowerPC or Intel Mac) 10.4.11/10.5.6 or later, cd-rom drive

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