BANK STREET WRITER ADDS WORD PROCESSING AND CLASSROOM PUBLISHING POWER TO
THE PRENTICE HALL LITERATURE WRITING STUDIO 

Classic, award-winning software will be sold as a component in the Prentice
Hall Literature program for students in grades 6-12.

January 21, 1993 - New York, NY- Scholastic Inc. and Prentice Hall today
announced that The Bank Street Writer will be marketed as a component in
the new Prentice Hall Literature Writing Studio for students in grades
6-12.

The Prentice Hall Literature Writing Studio is an important new development
in integrating literature and writing. A multimedia package of teaching
and writing tools, it is designed for use with the Prentice Hall
Literature series, the best-selling literature program in secondary
schools. The package includes two software programs, a hand-held
electronic grammar handbook transparencies for writing, literature
videodiscs, and audiocassettes with well known authors--plus extensive
teaching guides that help educators integrate each of these components
into their classrooms and lesson plans.

As the most popular word processor in schools, The Bank Street Writer is a
powerful addition to this multimedia package. Available in both Macintosh
and MS-DOS versions, the program gives students a wide range of advanced
word processing features, including easy "cut and paste" editing, an
integrated spelling checker and thesaurus, and writing process
activities.

The Macintosh version of The Bank Street Writer also includes a broad range
of classroom publishing functions, so students can print multi-column
newsletters complete with multiple fonts, graphics, and illustrations. The
Macintosh version also includes such advanced features as sound-input, for
attaching audio notes to documents, as well as sophisticated hypertext
capabilities.

"The Bank Street Writer has been designed to help students write
effectively, and to inspire them to write more," said Peter Kelman, Vice
President and Publisher of Scholastic Software. "So it's fitting for the
program to be paired with the Prentice Hall Literature series, which
introduces students to the most inspiring authors in the English language.
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"For the Prentice Hall Literature Writing Studio, we searched for a word
processor that would give teachers the flexibility to work with Macintosh
and MS-DOS computers, and that would provide the latest capabilities in
writing and classroom publishing," said Mollie Ledwith, Marketing Director
for Language Arts at Prentice Hall. "We saw that The Bank Street Writer
had just what we wanted for our program."

Scholastic Inc. is one of the nation's leading publishers and distributors
of children's books, classroom and professional magazines, and other
educational materials. The company also produces family-oriented video and
television programming. Scholastic operates in the United States, Canada,
Australia, the United Kingdom, and New Zealand.

Prentice Hall is part of Paramount Communications' educational publishing
operations. Paramount is one of America's leading publishers of
educational material, from textbooks to computer-based learning systems,
and has significant operations serving the consumer and business,
technical and professional publishing markets. Paramount Communications
also is a major producer and distributor of motion pictures, television
programming, and home videos, and has major operations in cable and
broadcast television, motion picture theaters, and live and televised
sports and entertainment events.

Scholastic Inc, 730 Broadway, New York, NY 10003
212-503-3000

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