ACCURD20.ZIP 271120 02-24-97 Accu-Reading 2.00 presents short factual | paragraphs and promotes mastery of accurate | reading. Diagnostic tests determine the | student's reading skills and direct him/her | to the appropriate lesson. Each set is | self-correcting and allows the student to | progress at his/her own pace without teacher | intervention. (Merit Audio Visual) (ASP) | (Reg.Fee: $?) CSDE1.ZIP 1081978 03-16-97 Discovering English Demo 1.00 is a tutorial | in English grammar with a multimedia game | included. No assumptions have been made about | how much or how little grammar you know, so | this is suitable for ages 12 through adult. | (Hale Chatfield) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $45) CSDE2.ZIP 1411090 03-16-97 See CSDE1.ZIP CSDE3.ZIP 988380 03-16-97 See CSDE1.ZIP DCTS1X20.ZIP 509745 03-31-97 Critical Thinking Set 1 2.00 helps students | sharpen their critical thinking skills and | develop their ability to make inferences. | Students read selections and answer questions | that use vocabulary in context and require | making inferences. This supports reading | levels 5 - 8. (Merit Audio Visual) (ASP) | (Reg.Fee: $?) DCTSUG20.ZIP 513444 03-31-97 Critical Thinking Set 4 2.00 helps students | sharpen their critical thinking skills and | develop their ability to make inferences. | Students read selections that use vocabulary | in context and require making inferences. | This is for reading levels 9 - 11. (Merit | Audio Visual) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $?) DIC32.ZIP 489472 04-13-97 PC Dictionary for Windows 3.2 is a database | of over 64,000 of the most frequently | looked-up words with concise definitions. It | also has a list of 800 word parts that will | allow you to unlock the meanings of 40,000 | related words that are derived from these | parts. (Jim Chung) (Reg.Fee: $16-$20) DPG30.ZIP 274906 04-04-97 Diagnostic Prescriptive Grammar 3.0 is a | developmental grammar lesson series that | evaluates a student's work before moving | him/her on to the next lesson. Each | individualized lesson focuses on a specific | grammar skill, is self-correcting, and allows | the student to progress through each skill | area at his/her own pace without teacher | intervention. The student's progress is | recorded for each lesson. (Merit Audio | Visual) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $149+) DPREAD.ZIP 257831 04-04-97 Diagnostic Prescriptive Reading 5.0 provides | diagnostic tests to help determine a | student's reading skills and direct him/her | to appropriate lessons to improve | performance. The program evaluates the | student's work at each level before moving | them to the next lesson. Lessons are | self-correcting and allow the student to | advance at their own pace. (Merit Audio | Visual) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $149+) ENGLSH.ZIP 1035130 06-16-97 Talking English 1.0 starts with basic | sentence structure and allows the student to | put together sentences. Talking English will | teach the student how to recognize singular | and pural verbs, singular and plural objects, | direct object, indirect object, objective | complement and objective sumplement. Talking | English also covers past, present and future | tense. (DareWare Inc.) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $19) ESLDEM.ZIP 470945 04-04-97 ESL Demons 5.0 helps students cope with | troublesome points of English grammar, usage, | and spelling. Sentences contain up to four | highlighted choices, one of which is an | error, such as a word or phrase that would | not be appropriate in standard written | English. The material helps students | recognize language that is clear and correct, | and provides explanations that teach the | underlying grammatical concepts. (Merit Audio | Visual) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $?) FCTP3.ZIP 418040 03-21-97 First Certificate Trainer Paper 3 helps you | prepare for the third part of the Cambridge | First Certificate in English. It provides | five sections: multiple-choice fill in the | blank, open fill in the blank, key word | transformation, error correction, and word | formation. (Nigel Marsh) (Reg.Fee: $34) GDEMON.ZIP 440800 04-04-97 Grammar Demons 5.0 uses a multiple-choice | interface to help students cope with | troublesome points of grammar. Each sentence | contains up to four underlined choices, one | of which may be a "Grammar Demon," a common | error in usage, diction, idiom, grammatical | relationship, or punctuation. In response to | a wrong answer, the computer shows the | corrected sentence and explains why it is | right. (Merit Audio Visual) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: | $?) GRMSLM11.ZIP 291801 01-31-97 Grammer Slammer 1.10 provides a taskbar that | pops up a Windows Help file with answers to | common grammar questions. Requires VBRUN300. | (James Bair) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $25-$39) MMTYPE07.ZIP 1280517 04-21-97 MasterMind Typing 1.07 is an interactive | touch typing teacher for Windows. (Turnquist | Foundation) (Reg.Fee: $34) PHONICS1.ZIP 2066473 06-23-97 Animated Phonics 1.00 will teach your child | how to pronounce letters and words using | phonetics sounds. Features include a 300 word | vocabulary and high-quality animation and | video. This is great for children that have a | reading difficulty. (DareWare Inc.) (ASP) | (Reg.Fee: $39) PPUNCH20.ZIP 322167 03-31-97 Paragraph Punch for Windows 2.0 is a writing | tutor that helps students learn different | ways to write an effective paragraph: through | reasons, details, sequence, example, and | cause and effects. Choosing from a menu of | topics, they develop an idea, and write their | own topic sentence, body, and conclusion. | Finished work may be saved to a disk or | transferred to a word processing program. | This is for grades 6 - 10. (Merit Audio | Visual) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $?) READKS10.ZIP 983037 02-26-97 Reading is Kids' Stuff 4.0 is a complete | system for selecting and tracking books your | child reads. The expandable database contains | over 800 quality children's books with | detailed information on each book, such as | type, subject, pages, and reading level. You | can also print reports of books to read, | books that have been read, and books you own. | (Vicki Watson) (Reg.Fee: $15) TT95_22.ZIP 5886974 07-09-97 Touch-Typing for Win95 2.2 teaches you touch | typing in an easy, effective and amusing way. | It allows you to advance according to your | own personal pace, with a variety of | exercises of different categories. Its user | interface is very intuitive and simple to | operate, which makes this suitable for all | levels of typists. (Shetef Solutions Ltd.) | (Reg.Fee: $39) VOCABTRN.ZIP 1628400 01-27-97 Vocabulary Trainer 1.0 allows you to increase | your vocabulary skills by studying and taking | tests on weekly lists of words. This version | contains sample word lists for the months of | January through April. Requires Windows. (Bob | Nickles) (Reg.Fee: $19) WAREAD20.ZIP 321637 03-31-97 Writing About Reading 2.00 is a writing tutor | that teaches students how to organize their | thoughts and write an effective paragraph | about material they have read. Students work | independently, developing an idea into a | topic sentence, body, and conclusion. Steps | to finished original paragraphs include pre- | writing, writing, organizing, editing, | rewriting, and publishing. (Merit Audio | Visual) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $?) WIRREG20.ZIP 387289 03-31-97 Write It Right 2.0 helps students learn to | correct common problems in writing, including | faulty sentence structure, unclear meaning, | misplaced modifiers, and grammatical shifts. | The sample text contains errors, and students | may view what each possible correction looks | like in the text before entering the one of | their choice. In response to a wrong answer, | the computer shows the corrected sentence and | explains why it is right. This is for skill | levels 6 - 8. (Merit Audio Visual) (ASP) | (Reg.Fee: $?) WIRXUG20.ZIP 388083 03-31-97 Write It Right UG 2.0 helps students learn to | correct common problems in writing, including | faulty sentence structure, unclear meaning, | misplaced modifiers, and grammatical shifts. | Students may view what each possible | correction looks like in the text before | entering the one of their choice. In response | to a wrong answer, the computer shows the | correct choice and why it is right. This is | for skill levels 9 - 11. (Merit Audio Visual) | (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $?) WRDDEM20.ZIP 443392 03-31-97 Word Demons 2.0 uses a multiple-choice | interface to help students master commonly | confused and misused words. Each sentence | contains up to four underlined choices, one | which may be a mistake, such as a near | sound-alike, a commonly misused word, or a | word with multiple meanings. In response to a | wrong answer, the computer shows the | corrected sentence and explains why it is | right. (Merit Audio Visual) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: | $?) WRFLEX.ZIP 1986762 07-24-97 WrFlex is a speed reading course for | Windows. This version stops working after 4 | uses. (Idegain Inc.) (Reg.Fee: $5-$15) WS32_15.ZIP 2549017 07-28-97 Weekly Speller for Windows (32-bit) 1.50 | provides an easy mechanism to quickly input | spelling lists that can immediately be used | for practice. Printed reports allow parents | or teachers to monitor progress. Optional | password protection can be enabled on the | spelling list editor. Sound support makes | spelling lessons fun for both children and | adults. (Ronald Swerdfeger) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: | $10) WSDEML20.ZIP 474337 03-31-97 Writing Style Demons ML 2.00 focuses on the | kinds of errors that commonly occur in the | writing style of many students. Each text | contains up to four underlined choices, one | of which may be identified as having faulty | sentence structure, unclear meaning, | illogical thought, grammatical shift, or one | of several other writing problems. This is | for skill levels 7 - 10. (Merit Audio Visual) | (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $?) WSPELL13.ZIP 1100654 02-25-97 Weekly Speller for Windows 1.30 provides an | easy mechanism to quickly input spelling | lists that can immediately be used for | spelling practice. Printed reports allow | parents or teachers to monitor progress. | Optional password protection can be enabled | on the spelling list editor. (Ronald | Swerdfeger) (ASP) (Reg.Fee: $10)