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Middle School Language Arts Review

Middle School Language Arts
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Understanding and command of the English language are essential to success in school, business and life. Presentation of knowledge, ideas and opinions depend on your ability to concisely and effectively communicate them to your teachers, fellow-students, colleagues, friends, family and the general public. Mastery of the essential elements of Language in middle school will give you a head start on the road to academic success. With an emphasis on learning by doing. Activities and exercises provide fundamental skill-building that is vital to your mastery of language arts. Much like a personal tutor, the Pro One Middle School Language Arts box set allows you to progress at your own pace while interactive exercises, high-resolution graphics, practice games, and mastery testing encourage in-depth study and learning.
Grade 4
Reading selections - Dinosaurs
Remembering details
Separating fact from fiction
Spelling emphasis - consonant clusters, dipthongs, vowel sounds.
Grade 5
Reading selections - Ancient Greece and Rome
Comprehending main ideas and logical relationships
Metaphors and similes
Dialogue
Spelling emphasis - Schwa sounds, unstressed syllables, adding -ing, homophones, homographs, and rhymes.
Grade 6
Reading Selection - Airplanes and Flight
Use of persuasive techniques
Metaphors and similes
Spelling emphasis - "sh" sounds, suffixes, -ace, -ice, -ence.
Grade 7
Reading Selection - U.S. Presidents
Inferences and drawing conclusions
Spelling emphasis - words of foreign origin, prefix re-, suffix -ly.
Grade 8
Reading Selection - Computers
Discerning author's purpose, making inferences, relating themes to personal experience

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QuickStudy Algebra Booster Review

QuickStudy Algebra Booster
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This is just barely tolerable. VERY superficial overview but somewhat fun and interactive. Well, that is, the two voices in the program, one male and one female seem to interact nicely. THAT's as interactive as it gets. Overally, if it says HIGH ACHIEVER or QUICKSTUDY and it's MATH-related, I would avoid it.

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JumpStart 6th Grade Review

JumpStart 6th Grade
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I purchased this jumpstart 6th grade cd the summer before school started. Came in the mail and installed it in the laptop . My daughter seemed to have an immediate interest in the subject matter- we began going over science subjects.. I rememeber her finding interest in the geology questions like type of rocks.
Many of the questions had me guessing - guess a loss of memory is to blame.. and some of the questions seemed to be above a 6th grader's mindset - like names of chemical bonds.
The software's interface was about a 3 out of 5 stars. The reason for this is because the user has to manuever an object over a location on the screen and drop - cant remember what it was- something... The program then starts a new set of question and answer table, but only only 1 at a time - so one has to do this manuevering everytime for a new question to appear. I'm not sure if the entire cd is like this or if it was just in the science section.
A complaint i had to my daugther about the software was when a correct answer was chosen the original question text would immiedialtly disapear - not allowing one to reread the question and correct answer. The software needs a simple time delay of some sort to allow the user to re-read the original question/correct answer combo.
We had fun using the software and we seemed to learn much during or short time using it.


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High School Success Deluxe 2010 Review

High School Success Deluxe 2010
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I got this over another choise because it said there was free tutoring included. When it arrived and I opened it up I was sorely disapointed to find out that there is only 30 min. of free tutoring. What a rip off. Should have went with the cheaper one.

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JumpStart 5th Grade Review

JumpStart 5th Grade
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My daughter loves the 3rd grade and 4th grade disks, and begged for this one.
She has spent a lot of time playing with this game, so I'm glad that we bought it, but of the Jump Start nth grade series, it is by far the weakest. The biggest issue is the art history sections and crossword puzzles, full of painters that I've never heard of and trivia that seems largely irrelevant, over the head of most adults, let alone kids. There's no instructional material before the puzzles that introduces the kids to these painters, either; they're just expected to know it. I can tell that a lot of parents felt the same way, because whenever I googled to find an answer, I found that someone had already posed that exact, obscure question and gotten it answered online.
So maybe that's the point of this game. To teach your 5th grader-to-be about the power of online search. I suppose at that, it would be a success... but only if your child has the ability to access Google while playing, and/or if you the parent are willing to help with those puzzles.
We also had some trouble figuring out how to do the complex math problems, multiplying multiple digit by multiple digit numbers. Only after much trial and error did we finally realize you were intended to do the whole problem on the computer, showing each step and then add them together, rather than just enter the final answer, as you did with every previous level of difficulty. An example problem or more specific help would have saved us about 40 minutes of frustration.

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JumpStart 4th Grade Review

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There needs to be a "no star" rating. There is no way to move back and forth between levels if your kid cannot finish them. If you cannot finish the Mah Jong level - not because of math skills but because the tiles don't line up - you have no choice but to do it over again. You cannot progress otherwise.
Both my wife and I are very computer savvy - I design databases for fun - and this software is beyond salvage. The authors should be forbidden to write software. The positive reviews were written by company stooges who never used the product. We want our $15 back plus the hours of our lives we wasted on this sadistic product.

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Studyworks Teaching Pro: Mathematics Complete Review

Studyworks Teaching Pro:  Mathematics Complete
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When you buy this software, you expect professional layouts, and a professional feel. Well when you first open the software, you feel like you just opened a cheap website. Once you enter the index, which is clunky in itself, you will have to choose which math topic you wish to study. Once you enter your section, you have to scroll through tons of info just to find what you are looking for, although you can use edit and find to find some text that you are looking for. This information that this software offers is not complete. For example, in the Algebra section, it does not give you all of the instructions on factoring quadratic equations, even though it gives you huge complicated questions that it expects you to know the answer to. I am studying to major in Mathematical Science, and I would not recommend this software if you are trying to learn new topics or get ahead in your classes. This software is basic review, and you had better remember things from your classes in order to understand what they are talking about. Also, if you don't have high computer skills, this software will get very confusing.

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The COMPLETE school mathematics curriculum includes ten subjects: Pre-Algebra, Algebra I, Algebra II, Geometry, Trigonometry, Precalculus ,Calculus I, Calculus II, Statistics, and Business Math. Studyworks software is produced by premier scientists, mathematicians, software engineers and educators, dedicated to teaching the full math curriculum to students using cutting edge technology and sound educational techniques. StudyWorks is developed by the same company that provides the most popular professional software used in more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies to provide mission-critical solutions to industry. This software has been developed to be accessible to students to succeed at new mandatory state competency tests!

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