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Interactive Demonstrations |
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Project Light's interactive literacy software enables tutors with a high-school
reading level to successfully tutor students, after
minimal training. The full system contains hundreds of lessons, drills, and stories created by literacy researchers.
Click "Try it now" next to the descriptions below to start the corresponding
demonstration.
| Demonstration #1: Visual Perception for Reading |
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In this demonstration, you'll go through 40 multiple-choice items from one of Project Light's "Zero to Five" modules. These
items test for specific aspects of visual perception that are needed to be a successful reader. Zero to Five's visual perception
lessons are designed to assist the pre-reading
student in acquiring the specific visual perception
competencies needed to experience success in
reading. The primary purpose is to extend and
reinforce various perceptual skills closely related to
reading and to help the student to experience
significant perceptual growth. Selected skill areas
include discrimination and association of pictures,
geometric forms, word configurations, colors, letters,
substitutions, deletions, spatial orientation, sizes and
shapes.
After you complete the items in the example lesson, you'll be shown a listing of
the areas of visual perception where you may require more practice.
In the full Project Light system, each of the listed areas corresponds to further lessons. |
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| Demonstration #2: Learning words and sound patterns |
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This demonstration is an example of the auditory drill and test style of Project
Light's "The Light is Coming" module. The format
allows a tutor to easily lead a student through a lesson involving learning new
words and letter patterns.
There are 114 interactive audio/visual lessons in "The Light is Coming" that
give the student phonics, word and story reading and
pronunciation skills as well as comprehension skills.
Each lesson has a Drill page, one or two stories and a
Test page. The Drill pages teach the student a wide
variety of words as well as phonics focusing on
portions of words. In the story the student has the
opportunity to read through a short story and then to
listen while the computer reads the story, highlighting
each sentence as it is read. Many lessons contain a
second story which is from the Bible. The Test page
tests the student's mastery of the vocabulary studied
in that lesson. |
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| Demonstration #3: Reading newly learned words in a story |
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This demonstration is an example of a simple story that allows a student to practice reading newly learned words. In the sequence of "The Light is Coming" lessons, this story follows the drill of the Demonstration #2 above. |
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