Apple Digital Learning Series
Middle School Language Arts (Grades 6-8)
Read. Write. Excel.
The Middle School Language Arts solution provides a highly effective way to expand student writing skills and reading comprehension. Engaging and academically stimulating activities challenge students to analyze what they read and apply the strategies they discover to their own writing projects.
This solution includes an exceptional collection of educator-recommended products and aligns to the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and International Reading Association (IRA) standards. The solution enables students to build and master skills such as word analysis, reading comprehension, literary response and analysis, writing strategies and applications, and grammar and mechanics.
What’s included
Destination Reading Course IV: Middle School comes with ten sets of media and accompanying materials, and a license to install the software on 10 computers for use with 120 unique users. For Get A Clue, WriteBrain, and WriteToLearn, the solution includes a one-year subscription for up to 120 unique users.* All of these subscription-based products are also available for students to access from home or from any computer with Internet access. Middle School Language Arts runs on either PowerPC or Intel-based Mac computers.
Standards-based, award-winning products
| Product | Company | Grades |
|---|---|---|
| Destination Reading Course IV: Middle School |
Riverdeep, Inc. | 6-8 |
| This program focuses on complex vocabulary and comprehension strategies to take students beyond reading as they practice and apply skills and strategies to longer and more complex passages. With an age-appropriate, engaging interface, the program offers individualized instruction and content that can be applied across the curriculum. | ||
| Get A Clue | FableVision | 5-12 |
| Designed specifically to enhance students’ vocabulary, this program employs the “Words And Their Stories” system. Through an engaging, interactive game, students learn words by deducing their meaning through a series of clues. Using a word in a variety of ways, students assimilate it into their active vocabulary. | ||
| WriteBrain | Sunburst Technology Corp. | 2-8 |
| This standards-based program provides guidance for all steps of the writing process. WriteBrain guides students through writing narrative and expository papers in an open, exploratory manner. Online portfolios allow students to assess, review, and reflect on past works as they evolve as writers. | ||
| WriteToLearn | Pearson Knowledge Technologies | 4-12 |
| This innovative tool is designed to develop writing and reading comprehension skills. Students practice essay writing and summarization skills, and their efforts are measured by the Knowledge Analysis Technologies™ engine, which automatically evaluates the meaning of text, not just grammatical correctness or spelling. | ||
*The software license for subscription products is for a one-year period and begins upon activation. Annual renewal fees apply after the first year.
For the most effective classroom use of this solution, 2 two-day Apple Professional Development workshops scheduled six weeks apart is highly recommended. Professional development is also available from Riverdeep for Destination Reading Course IV: Middle School.
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