Literacy

Title	Series	Associated Involvement	Associated Publications	Age Range	URL
Abena and the Rock	Arts and Life Active Books	BBC Science Challenge Programmes	ISBN 1-870516-08-07	6 to 11	http:// www.sirlearningsystems.co.uk/products/15

Welcome to Stories Around the World - a wonderful series of exciting Interactive Multimedia stories for children between the ages of 6 and 11.

The Active Books take children through a fascinating and motivating learning process, enhancing skills such as reading, comprehension and vocabulary as well as sharpening memory and concentration skills.

Each story has built-in profiling for monitoring and recording activity with feedback on progress.

Some features of Stories Around the World:

· Profiling for monitoring and recording of pupil activity.

· Feedback on reading accuracy.

· Selectable reading speed.

· Access to context-sensitive help throughout.

· Choose how to listen (word, phrase, sentence or whole page).

· Bookmark facility, for returning to where the story was left last time.

· Built-in multimedia speaking dictionary, giving meanings and examples of use.

· Innovative use of concept maps as the story progresses.

· Sentence sequencing and concept map assessed exercises.

· Facility for the student to colour in their own on-screen story pictures.

· Picture re-ordering games.

· Pages of the book are printable, for the student to read the story away from the computer and colour in the pictures.