Students visit an undersea world to work on preschool and early reading skills. Friendly sea animals like Toby, Betsi, and Theodore (at left) help children by giving directions and guiding beginning readers to success.

There are six letter recognition activities in ABC World. Two or more activities can be used simultaneously, and letters to be included in the activities can be restricted. Students can be given practice matching upper case letters, matching lower case letter, or matching upper case to lower case letters. They can practice identifying spoken upper case letters or spoken lower case letters. And, they can practice associating letters with beginning sounds. Specific items missed are noted by the record keeping system.

The primary motivation for students in ABC World is the friendliness of the characters who help students along as they work. Teachers like the fact that students enjoy using this program, but, they also really appreciate the detailed record keeping which this program can do, whether in a network environment or on individual stand-alone machines. At this early stage of reading development, it is enormously productive to pinpoint and then eliminate specific occurrences of student confusion, one by one. Above is an example of the kind of detail this program can capture. It shows the specific items that Tracy Johnson missed and the number of times they were missed.

ABC World includes Micrograms' latest Class File record keeping system. This system collects student performance data from around the network and consolidates it into one report. The report may be for the latest work session, the last five work sessions, or a cumulative report of all work done. The report may be for a single student or for the entire class. On a stand-alone machine, the same kind of record keeping can be done; but, of course, students must take turns using the program, rather than using it simultaneously, as they do on a network. This system also allows teachers to adjust program activities for students individually or to change options for the entire class at once. In the network environment, the Teacher Module in ABC World provides our most advanced network security and convenience features, many of which can be used in the stand-alone environment as well.

What Teachers Are Saying About ABC World.....

"Micrograms has done it again! ABC World is a hit with both our students and teachers. The antics from these underwater characters quickly charm students into doing their best work. This program is a wonderful addition to our software library."

Susan Spock
Elementary School Computer Specialist
Carlsbad, California

ABC World

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