Essential Skills Software™.....

All Essential Skills educational software programs include a progress reporting system that tracks student achievement throughout each program. This feature provides an accurate reflection of how a student is performing in respect to the various skill areas within each program. Progress reports can be easily printed for individual students or an entire class.

Vocabulary Overview

Four comprehensive programs teach students in grades 3 through 6 a variety of vocabulary, reading and language skills. Each program offers students the opportunity to work with hundreds of new words.

Vocabulary Builder Grade 3

In this program students will work with over 500 new words and more than 200 stimulating activities to develop critical vocabulary, reading, spelling and language skills.

Targeted Skills

• Homophones (Homonyms)
• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Homographs
• Compound Words
• Easily Confused Words
• Prefixes
• Suffixes
  

Vocabulary Builder Grade 4

Students are taught the meaning of hundreds of new words through a variety of fun activities. Students will increase their vocabulary knowledge in 10 targeted skill areas, including easily confused words, antonyms and synonyms.

Targeted Skills

• Homophones (Homonyms)
• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Homographs
• Compound Words
• Easily Confused Words
• Prefixes
• Suffixes
• Figurative Language
  

Vocabulary Builder Grade 5

Provides the strategies, skills and individual word instruction your students need to develop strong language proficiency. Students are taught more than 500 new words through a wide variety of engaging activities.

Targeted Skills

• Homophones (Homonyms)
• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Homographs
• Compound Words
• Easily Confused Words
• Prefixes
• Suffixes
• Figurative Language
• Similes
• Idioms
• Proverbs
  

Vocabulary Builder Grade 6

Provides the strategies, skills, and individual word instruction your students need to develop strong language proficiency. It was designed to teach and reinforce the skills in determining word meaning by analyzing word structure and structural changes, and by using sentence context.

Targeted Skills

• Homophones (Homonyms)
• Antonyms
• Synonyms
• Homographs
• Compound Words
• Easily Confused Words
• Prefixes
• Suffixes
• Similes
• Idioms
• Proverbs