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Introducing Word Lab
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Test Prep Station
With Word Lab, students have a language arts “tutor”
right at their fingertips. Word Lab provides six skill
modes (36 games), from antonyms to spelling. Lights
and sound effects guide and motivate independent
play. Interactive and fun, Word Lab builds the skills—
and confidence—students need for reading, writing, and
test-taking competence.
What Students Will Learn
By playing Word Lab’s games, your students reinforce a variety of
language arts skills:
• determining antonyms for words
• determining synonyms for words
• identifying homophones and using them correctly
• determining when to use plurals and forming plurals correctly
• using contractions
• spelling words with special vowel combinations, silent letters, word
endings, and commonly misspelled words
For a Scope and Sequence of Word Lab’s skills, go to page 15 in
this guide.
How Skills Are Reinforced
These features help Word Lab users of all ages and skill levels to
reinforce language arts skills at their own pace:
Repeated drill
Each of the six skill modes has six games. Each game has between
four and twelve rounds of questions—ten questions per round.
Word
Lab has a total of more than 2,000 questions! At the end of each
game, the student can choose to play the same kind of game, to play
a different game, or to change skills.
Immediate feedback
Tones and lights tell the student whether the answer is correct or
incorrect. Incorrect answers are immediately corrected on the screen.
No-fail game format
The student answers a round of ten questions each time. Incorrectly
answered questions are recycled and repeated at the end of the
round. Game play continues until all ten questions are answered
correctly.
Suggestions for Use
Here are some ways to incorporate Word Lab in your classroom:
• Use Word Lab as an individual skill builder. Five or ten minutes
with Word Lab turns “free time” into a productive learning
experience.
• Make Word Lab part of your writing center.
• Send Word Lab home with students who need
extra practice.