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Education ReviewerÕs Guide to READING SEARCH: In Search of Lost Folktales For grades 2 through 6 Travel back in time with SEARCH Ð the Society to Explore and Archive Really Cool History. As SEARCH Field Agents, students participate in exciting missions as they interact with people in faraway places and bring back authentic folktales and cultural treasures from the past. To succeed, they use a variety of reading and language arts skills while exploring three cultures: A Mayan city in Central America, a Tlingit village in Alaska, and an Imperial Palace in China during the Tang Dynasty. Reading SEARCH provides the following features: ♦ Students can be signed on for activities appropriate to their level of reading ♦ On-screen help is always available ♦ Skills activities are preceded by tutorials. Pre- and post-mastery assessments are tracked for each student ♦ Individual student learning levels automatically adjust to their skill needs ♦ Students are given positive reinforcement by on-screen characters and collect an artifact for each folktale they find ♦ Custom SEARCH allows individual student or class modification of the curricula, and multiple class documents can be created Below is a partial list of the skills taught with over 1100 activities: Language arts and vocabulary Learning about characterization: development: Point of view Pronunciation and definitions Comparing characters Dictionary entries Predicting character actions Placing words in text Character changes Parts of speech Describing characters Sensory words Synonyms, antonyms, Understanding meaning and and similes key concepts: Story morals Exploration of story plots: Conflict, solution and Chronological order resolution Foreshadowing Use of symbols Summarizing events Finding the main idea Predicting outcomes Writing an outline paragraph Cause and effect Types of conflict Cultural ideas Understanding setting: Inferences and assumptions Props and cultural items Time and place This guide gives an overview of the features and activities with step by step instructions. Sign on as a Field Agent and begin your mission! Installing READING SEARCH For Macintosh Systems: 1. Insert the C…