User`s guide

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Stage Four:
Early Concepts
The Stage Four learner is now ready to explore beginning academic skills and
show what he or she understands. At this Stage, early childhood or
Kindergarten content is assessed.
Assessing Stage Four Skills
At Stage Four, learners aren’t asked to do math or read words, but to show
they are ready for these skills. At this Stage, learners build the foundation on
which the rest of their academic journey depends.
Stage Four assessment activities include:
3 Shape identification
3 Color identification
3 Math Readiness: number identification, counting, spatial relations,
estimating size, and patterns
3 Reading Readiness: identifying letters and their sounds
Stage Four Assessment Software
WIN/MAC ST4BA ..............................$125
Building Stage Four Skills
Use the following recommended instructional software
from various publishers to practice Stage Four skills.
Child Software Bundle
WIN/MAC ST4CSB ..............................$240
3 Early Play/Linda Burkhart
3 Bailey’s Book House
®
/Riverdeep
3 Early Learning/Marblesoft
3 Millie’s Math House
®
/Riverdeep
Teen/Adult Software Bundle
WIN/MAC ST4TSB ..............................$359
3 Teach Me Nouns-Initial Sounds/SoftTouch, Inc.
3 Following Directions: One- and Two-Level Commands/Laureate
Learning Systems
3 SwitchIt! Early Math/IntelliTools, Inc.
Stage Five:
Advanced Concepts and
Communication
The Stage Five learner expands basic reading and math skills. By Stage Five,
the learner has shown that she is capable of learning academic content and
is ready to continue along an academic path.
Assessing Stage Five Skills
These research-based activities address key areas of academic learning and
cover a wide range of skills. Stage Five learners may also be practicing writ-
ing at Stage Seven or functional skills at Stage Six.
Stage Five assessment activities include:
3 Reading: alphabetization, rhyming words, Dolch sight words and
high-frequency words in context
3 Math: charts and graphs, number facts, word problems, measurement
(geometry), fractions
3 Problem Solving: tic-tac-toe for 1–2 players, number-guess game,
word games, logic puzzles
Stage Five Assessment Software
WIN/MAC ST5BA ..............................$125
Building Stage Five Skills
Use the following recommended instructional software
from various publishers to practice Stage Five skills.
Child Software Bundle
WINDOWS ST5CSBW ..............................$214
MACINTOSH ST5CSBM ..............................$214
3 On a Green Bus
®
/Don Johnston, Inc.
3 MathPad
TM
/IntelliTools,, Inc.
3 Thinkin’ Things
®
, Collection 1/Riverdeep
Teen/Adult Software Bundle
WIN/MAC ST5TSB ..............................$428
3 Looking for Words/Attainment Company
3 IntelliMathics/IntelliTools, Inc.
3 WordMaker
TM
/Don Johnston, Inc.
Stages 4–7:Academic Discovery
>Stages Software
For Windows
®
and Macintosh
®
ASSESSMENT AND CURRICULUM SOFTWARE