Reading CDs

Reading/Language Arts CDs available for Checkout in the Library

7/18/06

If you encounter difficulty installing or using any of the titles below, please email Dawn Poole the title of the program and the operating system (Win XP, 98, OSX, etc) of the computer on which you were trying to install it.

Title	Grade Level	Description
Arthur's Birthday	1-3	An interactive story about a conflict Arthur encounters on his birthday.
Arthur's Computer Adventure	1-4	A multimedia story involving Arthur and a computer game.
Arthur's Reading Race	K-3	An interactive story involving Marc Brown's Arthur.
Arthur's Teacher Trouble	1-3	Arthur enters a spelling contest in this story.
Bailey's Book House	PreK-2	Early reading skills are featured in this program: letters, words, rhyming, common adjectives, and storytelling.
Carmen Sandiego Word Detective	3-8	Students free a dozen babbling ACME agents by completing over 60 activities that will develop their spelling, grammar and vocabulary skills.
Chuck Wagon Bill's Language Skills	2-5	http://www.academicsuperstore.com/market/marketdisp.html?PartNo=729593
Cosmic Reading Journey	2-3	Activities are included for 100 different books: multiple choice tests, essays, new word lists, and four enrichment games: Crossword, Alien Decoder, Space Chase and Moon Magnets. All of the games are educational and help kids boost vocabulary and reading comprehension skills.
Destination Rainforest	K-6	Students create interactive stories with exotic plants and animals as well as characters that will help them understand the rain forest.
Destination Reading	2-3	Phonics instruction, reading-for-meaning exercises, direct skills training, authentic reading experience. Also includes an assessment component.
Earobics Pro Plus, Step 2	K-3	Phonological awareness, phonics, auditory processing, and linguistic concepts for speech and language development and academic success.
Emergent Reader	K-1	Students read simple stories in a supported environment. Twenty stories are presented with one line of text per page. An animated illustration supports comprehension, and three supporting activities per story reinforce skills learned. Students can listen to model readings of the stories and hear proper pronunciations of these frequently used words.
Every Child a Reader	K-2	This program presents traditional reading strategies in a rich literary context, and is designed to promote independent reading, and develop oral and written language expression.
First Phonics	K-2	Targets phonics skill for early reading. Exercises can be customized to student skill levels.
Grammar for the Real World	4-6	This skill building program explains and reviews grammar skills in the context of creating a newspaper, welcome book, ad campaign, and letter writing.
Green Eggs and Ham	PreK-2	This Dr. Suess book is presented in multimedia format, with sounds, animations, as well as the text.
Island Reading Journey	4-5	Each island is loaded with activities that test a child's reading comprehension on a certain book they have selected. There's a 10 question multiple-choice test to take; an essay to complete; a fill-in-the-blanks vocabulary builder; a dominoes game; a decoder game, and more. Activities are provided for 100 intermediate-level books.
Just Grandma and Me	K-2	A story about a trip to the beach.
Key Skills for Reading: Basic Word Concepts	1-2	Receive assessment reports on students' Language Arts skills as they learn the difference between nouns and verbs, explore superlatives, match antonyms and synonyms, recognize and use contractions and common abbreviations, and develop syllabication skills.
Kid Works Deluxe	K-5	A word processor using primary lined paper as well as drawing and sound capabilities. Reads stories back to students.
Learning to Read on the Promenade	K	Pre-reading and early reading skills are addressed through several activities.
Let's Go Read! 2 An Ocean Adventure	K-1	Review of letter sounds, vowels, blends, sight words and more. Includes 9 printable books.
Let's Start Learning	PreK-K	Reader Rabbit serves up a progression of skills - from matching letters to recognizing letters and their sounds, classifying objects, patterning, and numbers.
Letters and Numbers	K-2	http://www.helpme2learn.com/products.htm#5000
Paragraph Power	6-10	Works like a word processor and lets students choose from a topic menu, develop an idea, write their own topic sentence, and complete an essay. Examples and reasons are provided.
Phonics 1a: Vowel Sounds	PreK-2	http://www.helpme2learn.com/products.htm#5001
Phonics 1b: Consonant Sounds	PreK-2	http://www.helpme2learn.com/products.htm#5003
Phonics 2: Intermediate Level	K-3	http://www.helpme2learn.com/products.htm#5002
Phonics Based Reading for Older Students	4-12	Designed with a mature interface, the program starts with basic first grade reading skills and works up to advanced decoding and comprehension. Activities provide practice in decoding skills, early comprehension, and keyboard skills.
Postcards: A Writer's View of Mexico, Ghana, Japan, and Turkey	3-7	The program focuses mostly on the development of writing skills in the context of a trip around the world with visits to the countries in the title. Students learn about the cultures as they interact with the program.
Reader Rabbit's Reading Development Library, Volumes 3 and 4	2-3	Reading skills developed as children progress through interactive books. Reading comprehension, vocabulary, sequencing addressed.
Reading Blaster	3-6	Students play detective and in the meantime build skills in developing the main idea,
Reading for Meaning	3-8	This program is designed to improve student reading comprehension and targets skills often covered on standardized tests: main idea, inference, sequence, cause and effect, and compare and contrast. It includes 35 complete lessons, including graphic organizers and authentic literature. Reading for Meaning is flexible enough to be used with any piece of literature.
Reading Who? Reading You!	K-2	Beginning reading skills with phonics instruction built into games and puzzles.
Romeo and Juliet	6-12	The Shakespeare play comes to life in this CD. Along with the actual play is interpretations of the characters and the work itself.
Schoolhouse Rock! Grammar Rock	1-6	Uses the catchy Saturday-morning tunes and cartoons to teach students grammar rules.
Secret Writer's Society	3-8	Te program teaches students to write effective sentences and paragraphs using the five-step writing process. Song videos teach key writing concepts, and interactive games reinforce skills such as sentence ordering, keeping to the main idea, and editing for mistakes.
Simon Sounds it Out	K-2	A phonics program that teaches letter sounds. Works well for LEP, ESL, and special needs students.
Sound It Out Land	PreK-2	Helps kids who know the alphabet to learn to read words and sentences. Lots of auditory support.
Sound Reading Solutions: ESL/ELL Software	2-12	http://www.soundreading.com/pages/programs.cfm?id=17C3CA61-2130-4F61-AA69A627EF4D1D98
Spelling Spree Level 3	2-4	Students learn spelling, vocabulary and proofreading skills.
Spelling Spree Level 4	3-5	Students learn spelling, vocabulary and proofreading skills.
Spelling Spree Level 5	4-6	Students learn spelling, vocabulary and proofreading skills.
Spelling Spree Level 6	5-7	Students learn spelling, vocabulary and proofreading skills.
Stanley's Sticker Stories	PreK-2	Students strengthen reading, writing, spelling, and creativity skills as they create their own animated storybooks. They use letter, character, number, and object stickers, familiar background scenes, graphics, spoken assistance and story ideas.
Stellaluna	K-3	An interactive story depicting a fruit bat.
Stickybear's Reading Comprehension	1-4	The program features more than thirty level-appropriate stories, providing practice in recognizing main idea, defining sequence, finding details, using context to identify words, and more.
Storybook Weaver Deluxe 2004	1-6	http://www.riverdeep.net/portal/page?_pageid=353,157846,353_157847&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL
Stories & More: Time and Place	3-8	Enhances reading comprehension and offers supportive tools to one of three books: Rosaboxen by Alice McLerran, The House on Maple Street, by Bonnie Pryor, and Galimoto by Karen Lynn Williams.
Tackle English	3-10	Six lessons allow students to practice identifying and matching parts of speech, capitalization, punctuation.
Vowels: Short and Long	PreK-2	Students explore the role of vowels in words, both long and short. They create their own rhymes and songs.
Word Munchers Deluxe	1-6	The program builds confidence in reading, grammar, and vocabulary skills through a vast number of drills dealing with grammar, phonics, vocabulary, and sentence structure.
Word Parts	K-3	Students develop their ability to decode and spell multisyllabic words. They use their words to create poems, answer riddles, and compose silly stories.
Words Around Me	PreK-8	Helps students with unique learning needs learn 275 common words and plurals. 5 activities to connect the spoken word to the image and sound. LEP, ESL and other special needs students will benefit from the program. Words can be taught in English or Spanish.