Upfront Word Skills
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Ages 5-15
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Over 3,200 carefully-crafted activities across 3 CDs, each covering at least 3 years of schooling
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Builds vital practical language skills and promotes confidence in understanding and using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
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Promotes higher-order language thinking and problem-solving skills
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Covers most word skills curriculum outcomes for all Australian states and New Zealand, including:
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Letter tracking, matching, sorting and recognition
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Preparatory skills for very young readers and spellers
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Spelling patterns & rules, including phonics
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Prefixes & suffixes
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Synonyms & antonyms
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Homophones, homographs, homonyms
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Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, connectives
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Regular and irregular verbs
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Word origins including idioms, clichés, metaphors, similes, etc
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Punctuation
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Grammar conventions
Other benefits of Upfront Word Skills:
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Incorporates a wealth of carefully-sequenced, teacher-designed and targeted activities
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Gives every child a positive and empowering language experience
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Identifies and systematically unravels areas of common misunderstanding (for example, the more baffling confusions of English spelling!)
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Carefully builds word recognition from basic elements to those that are more complex
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Provides hints, guidance and explanations of more difficult concepts in spelling, grammar and punctuation
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Expands and enriches vocabulary
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Stimulates word recognition and usage
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Promotes confident enjoyment and understanding of language
Upfront Word Skills CDs
Upfront Word Skills ONE
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Ages 5-7
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Builds vital practical language skills through a carefully-sequenced introduction to letters, phonic groups and words
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Over 1,100 activities covering 3 years of schooling
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Contains 7 carefully-sequenced levels with categories covering:
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Letter tracking, matching, sorting and recognition
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Preparatory skills for very young readers and spellers
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Spelling patterns and rules, including phonics
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Vocabulary development
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Elementary sentence-building, grammar and punctuation
Upfront Word Skills TWO
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Ages 7-11
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Builds and consolidates practical literacy proficiencies
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Promotes confidence in using basic functional elements of language, spelling, grammar and punctuation
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Over 1,200 activities covering 5 years of schooling
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Contains 5 carefully-sequenced levels with categories covering:
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Spelling patterns & rules, including phonics
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Grammar and punctuation fundamentals
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Common misunderstandings using hints and explanations of more difficult concepts
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Vocabulary enrichment, with a focus on prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms, homophones, homographs and homonyms
Upfront Word Skills THREE
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Ages 11-15
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Expands and develops writing and word skills using enjoyable stimulus material that copiously illustrates the richness and diversity of the English language
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Over 900 activities covering 5 years of schooling
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Contains 4 carefully-sequenced levels with categories covering:
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Advanced spelling, including spelling of technical words
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Word building, including prefixes, suffixes, synonyms, antonyms and homophones, word origins, idioms, clichés, metaphors and similes
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Functions of nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs and connectives
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Regular and irregular verbs, punctuation and grammar conventions
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Upfront Maths Minimum System Requirements:
Windows XP, Vista, Windows 7; 500MHz processor; 256MB RAM
Mac OS X 10.4, 10.5, 10.6; 500MHz processor; 256MB RAM
Important – please read:
*The Network Unlimited version includes software (not networkable) and the right for teachers to install the program at home.
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