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Using the LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALS® Interactive Application for Windows® and Mac OS

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USING THE

Table of Contents

How to Use This Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Quick Tips for Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Conducting a Lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The Interactive Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Multiple-Choice Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Drag and Drop Editing: Punctuation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Feature: Text vs. The Pencil Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Written Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Correcting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Crossword Puzzles and Word Searches . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Matching (Pictures and Text) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Editing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Interactive Applications Available in Portals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

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3USING THE LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALS INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONHow to Use This Application: Quick Tips for Getting Started

How to Use This ApplicationLanguage Fundamentals interactive application is your comprehensive resource for grade-level grammar, mechanics, usage and vocabulary practice. The broad scope of language skills and range in difficulty of the interactive activities enable you to precisely target those skills that each student needs to practice.

Each lesson follows the same format, making it easy for both students and teachers to use. Teachers can use an electronic whiteboard or projection system to lead interactive class lessons, or one or more students can complete the activities on their own at a computer.

Quick Tips for Getting Started

Log in to Evan-Moor Portals and click on the icon for Language Fundamentals. This will bring up the Available Units menu, where you can select a skill section to begin. Then choose the activity you would like students to complete from the Activities menu.

Click on Quick launch next lesson to jump to the lesson that comes after the one you completed last.

Title Resources

From the menu for the available activities, select a section from the left column, then click on the green checkmark in the right column to launch the lesson.

Lesson History

4USING THE LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALS INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONHow to Use This Application: Conducting a Lesson

Conducting a Lesson

Each lesson follows the same format, beginning with an instructional rule. Once continuing, the instructional rule persists along the top, along with examples to show students how the rule is applied and writing. To help students focus on the activity, click the blue arrow to hide the example. Open the example to reinforce concepts or to provide a reference for students as they complete the lesson.

• Enable Check Answer in situations where you are asking students to actively engage in entering answers. Disable if you are doing a review.

Enable or disable the Check Answer feature.

The collapsible rule helps to decrease distraction so that students can focus on the individual activities.

5USING THE LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALS INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONHow to Use This Application: Conducting a Lesson

• Many of the activities in the Language Fundamentals interactive application utilize a selection box to complete activities.

This selection box can be positioned either as a floating window, or docked on the right side of the application. This enables the options within the selection box to remain visible in those cases where scrolling is required to complete an activity.

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Drag and drop for sorting and matching.

Color selection based on activity requirements.

Grab the gray bar at the top of the selection box and pull to undock.

Pull the floating box over to the right. A visual guide will appear, indicating a docking area.

6USING THE LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALS INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONThe Interactive Activities

The Interactive ActivitiesThe Language Fundamentals interactive application contains 160 lessons, scaffolded to accommodate students’ varied skill levels. Multiple-choice review lessons for each section provide assessment and standardized test preparation. Paragraph-editing pages provide “real-world” application of skills.

• Multiple-Choice Questions (Single and Multiple Answer) Students select the correct response(s) in order to practice grade-level language skills such as spelling, verb forms, inferring, identifying sentences, and more.

• Drag and Drop Editing: Punctuation Students proofread sentences and drag punctuation marks to the correct location.


• Written Responses Students respond to questions by writing or typing their answers within a text box.

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Ask students to type their response into the text box, then click the Continue button.

To view an example of a correct response, click on the blue arrow.

There are two methods for entering in answers that require a text entry response: Students can either type their answers into a text box, or write out there answers in a drawing box. A text-entry box appears by default.

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2 The pencil tool activates the drawing area. This option, on Show Answer, displays the answer below to compare the student’s entry with the actual answer.

Feature: Text vs. The Pencil Tool

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•CorrectingText Students read a series of words, a sentence, or a passage in order to identify mistakes and rewrite the selection correctly.

•CrosswordPuzzlesandWordSearches

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Ask students to type their response into the text box, then click the Check Answer button.

A red “x” will appear if they enter an incorrect answer. A green “" will appear if they answer the question correctly.

To continue, click the Show Answer button to view the correct answer.

If needed, review the skills covered in a group discussion.

The clue is automatically crossed-off when the word is found.

Students can click on the clue to highlight the entry area in the puzzle.


• Selecting Text Students build grammar skills by highlighting words using a selection box.

• Drawing Students are asked to draw a picture in order to show their understanding of a sentence or short passage.

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In many cases, an example is given to demonstrate how to complete the activity.

Toggle between a pencil and an eraser to make adjustements

Ask students to place the curser inside the drawing space provided. Once the cursor is inside the drawing box, it will turn into a pencil, allowing them to draw freely.

If you need to start over, click the Clear button ( ) to clear the drawing space.

Choose an option in the selection box. For additional clarity, the options are labeled.

Make a selection according to the activity directions.

Click the Check Answer button to evaluate.



• Matching (Pictures and Text) Students practice language skills such as verb forms, vocabulary development, usage, and more while placing text or pictures in the correct spot.

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To continue, click the Check Answer button.

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A red “x” will appear if students have answered the question incorrectly. A green “” will appear if they have answered the question correctly.

To continue, click the Show Answer button, and the correct answers will appear.



• Editing The final section in each grade level provdes sentence or paragraphs for students to practice editing skills in context.

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Point out the editing skill focus for the lesson. Ask students to proofread the paragraph to find the errors.

Words that have been edited will be highlighted in blue. You can click on these words to modify the entry at any point during the lesson.

Once all of the corrections have been made, click on Check Answer . Correct edits are highlighted in green. Any incorrect edits or missed errors are highlighted in red.

Select the first error. A text entry box will appear above the crossed-out word.

Enter the corrected text. Hit the enter key on your keyboard, or use the Enter button to the right of the text box.

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12Interactive Applications Available in Portals

DAILY WORD PROBLEMS

1 EMC 9731-PRO EMC 5661-PRO





6+ EMC 9736-PRO EMC 5666-PRO

DAILY PARAGRAPH EDITING






A WORD A DAY







Grade Level

Interactive Class Pack(Single Classroom Application + 20 Student Books + Teacher’s Edition)

Single Classroom Application

Student Books Class Pack (20 Student Books + Teacher’s Edition)

DAILY LANGUAGE REVIEW









EMC 9681-SS

EMC 9682-SS

EMC 9683-SS

EMC 9684-SS

EMC 9685-SS

EMC 9686-SS

EMC 6521-SS

EMC 6522-SS

EMC 6523-SS

EMC 6524-SS

EMC 6525-SS

EMC 6526-SS

EMC 9677-SS

EMC 9678-SS

EMC 6556-SS

EMC 6557-SS

EMC 6558-SS

EMC 6559-SS

EMC 6560-SS

EMC 6545-SS

EMC 6546-SS

EMC 6547-SS

EMC 6548-SS

EMC 6549-SS

EMC 6550-SS

A Word a DayHelp students learn 144 words in 180 engaging interactive lesssons. A variety of self-correcting activities help students develop an understanding of word meaning that goes past surface-level memorization.

Daily Paragraph Editing Award-winning editing practice in an interactive format perfect for whole-class instruction. Short 10- to 15-minute interactive lessons target capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and language skills. Each weekly lesson features a 4-paragraph composition for students to edit on screen.

Daily Language Review Present students with 36 weeks of motivating and interactive language practice. The Daily Language Review interactive whiteboard application helps raise test scores with focused and engaging practice on grammar, punctuation, usage, and sentence-editing skills.

Daily Word ProblemsWatch students’ problem-solving skills improve day by day with 36 weeks of interactive instruction. Students develop standards-correlated math concepts such as addition, fractions, algebra, and more while completing over 100 self-correcting activities.

Grades1–6+

Grades1–8

Grades2–6+

Grades1–6+

Math

13Interactive Applications Available in Portals

BUILDING SPELLING SKILLS







Grade Level

Interactive Class Pack(Single Classroom Application + 20 Student Books + Teacher’s Edition)

Single Classroom Application

Student Books Class Pack (20 Student Books + Teacher’s Edition)

LANGUAGE FUNDAMENTALS

1 N/A EMC 5861-PRO

2 N/A EMC 5862-PRO

3 N/A EMC 5863-PRO

4 N/A EMC 5864-PRO

5 N/A EMC 5865-PRO

6 N/A EMC 5866-PRO

EMC 9633-SS

EMC 9634-SS

EMC 9635-SS

EMC 9636-SS

EMC 9637-SS

EMC 9638-SS

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Building Spelling SkillsEverything you need to present interactive lessons and enhance learning! Each app contains 30 spelling units, including: A spelling list, sentences for dictation and four interactive practice activities

Language Fundamentals Grade-appropriate interactive practice students need for a broad spectrum of language skills -- grammar, sentences, mechanics, and more! The review section covers a small subset of skills and may be used as an assessment of student skill acquisition.

Grades1–6+

Grades1–6+

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