Are Formal Learning Support, helping students who are enrolled in a formal program of education or who are pursuing their education through a program of homeschooling to attain their educational goals, or Basic Literacy, which addresses the need to read and to perform other essential daily tasks identified community needs that your library provides? (Nelson, Sandra. The New Planning for Results: A Streamlined Approach. Chicago: American Library Association, 2001. Print.)
If you answered yes to one or both, then you may be interested in evaluating FactCite or Miss Humblebee’s Academy. Let Jennifer know if you are interested and she will set up a webinar demo as well as trial access to the software.
FactCite: Lincoln Library Online includes:
1. Biography for Beginners (includes audio read-along)
More than 600 biographies of U.S. presidents, inventors, authors, and more; index by Lexile measure.
2. Shapers of Society: 101 Men and Women Who Shaped Our World (includes audio read-along)
Great Common Core resource. Enhanced with primary source documents; index by Lexile measure.
3. Sports Champions (includes audio read-along)
700+ profiles; index by Lexile measure.
4. World Biography
Dictionary-style biographies of historic figures worldwide.
5. Mythology (includes audio read-along)
500 articles on Greek and Roman mythological figures, plus 250 entries on world mythology; Easy Reading version of key Greek entries.
6. American History (includes audio read-along)
U.S. states, American Indians, eras in American history
7. Science
Elements, Planets, Animals, Earth Science; over 1,000 images.
8. Essential Information
Covers most areas of the curriculum.
9. Defining Moments in U.S. History NEW!!
Miss Humblebee’s Academy language and literature helps children age 3- 6 years develop skills required by the Head Start Child Development and Early Learning Framework and the Common Core State Standards. Preschool through kindergarten-aged children learn basic concepts and build a strong foundation in letter knowledge and sound. The curriculum gradually becomes more challenging as the child advances.
Children will learn:
- Alphabet knowledge, sounds each letter represents and writing practice sheets
- Upper and lowercase letter recognition
- Follow multi-step auditory directions
- Rhyming
- Blends (br, tr) and digraphs (ch, sh)
- Segmenting and putting sounds together to create words
- Parts of a book
- Comprehension
- Categorizing like words
- Sight words
- Auditory discrimination; distinguishing the difference between bin and pin
In addition, your child and you will enjoy hours of educational and entertaining reading that spans many literature styles. You’ll find traditional stories such as The Crow and the Pitcher and The Lion and the Mouse, as well as new stories and poems written exclusively for Miss Humblebee’s Academy, all richly illustrated.