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Table of Contents
Introduction ...................................................................................................................................................................... 4
SkillBuilders Overview.................................................................................................................................................... 4
Skill Tree and Implementation/Integration Ideas................................................................................................. 4
Accessing Assignments.................................................................................................................................................... 5
Entering Orchard as a Pre-Enrolled Student........................................................................................................ 5
Entering Orchard as a Guest................................................................................................................................... 5
Accessing Information on Assigned Skill Trees................................................................................................... 5
Language Arts Exit Skills................................................................................................................................................. 6
Introduction............................................................................................................................................................... 7
Using Language Arts Exit Skills............................................................................................................................. 7
The Menu Bar............................................................................................................................................................ 8
Playing the Games.................................................................................................................................................... 9
Program Parameters................................................................................................................................................11
License and Warranty..................................................................................................................................................... 13
Introduction
Language Arts Exit Skills reflects the Standards for the SkillBuilders
English Language Arts, which are supported by the
National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) and the Language Arts Exit Skills 144SB
International Reading Association (IRA). Students are
given opportunities to learn and apply proven reading Students concentrate their efforts on the language arts
and writing strategies. Students are encouraged to build skills found in their state standards. Students receive
understanding of spoken and written language, identify helpful feedback and ample opportunity for practice.
patterns, practice usage, and transfer appropriate language Topics include using the fundamentals of punctuation
concepts. Language Arts Exit Skills focuses on helping and spelling, using correct forms of adjectives and
students develop skills to become contributing members of adverbs, distinguishing between fact and opinion, making
a literate society. generalizations, and interpreting graphs, charts, diagrams,
and tables.
Orchard can be used effectively in one‑computer
classrooms and in full lab environments. If you identify
a skill that is commonly deficient in students, you can Objectives Implementation/Integration
assign Orchard to serve as a step‑by‑step guide to Ideas
teach, remediate, and reinforce with a large audience. Learn, practice, and Use the passages and questions to
Alternatively, several of Orchard’s programs can be reinforce necessary model comprehension strategies
assigned to assess an individual’s deficient areas, and reading and such as Think Aloud. Read the
then a customized assignment can be created for that writing strategies passage aloud. Then the students
student. Records and reports can be printed to ensure clear, to communicate and teacher can talk about the
consistent communication between lab and classroom efficiently and passage and what they may need
faculty, or among students, parents, and teachers. effectively. to review to fully understand its
context.
Visit our Web site at www.orchardtreeofknowledge.com to
see how other educators successfully integrate and use
Language Arts Exit Skills to help their students. Note: The
Orchard Tree of Knowledge Web site is available only to Orchard
customers. If you do not have a login ID or access code, contact
your local Orchard representative.
Accessing Assignments
4 Click OK.
A screen showing the available Skill Trees appears.
Language Arts Exit Skills 144SB
Grade Levels K 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
H.S. Language Arts Exit Skills 144SB
High School
Writing Strategies
Combine sentence parts and sentences to produce a variety of sentence structures including basic
sentence patterns and variations
•
Use the correct subject, object, and possessive forms of pronouns •
Use the correct subject-verb agreement with personal pronouns and compound subjects •
Recognize correct verb tense and correct form of tense of irregular verbs •
Use the correct forms of adjectives and adverbs •
Use the fundamentals of spelling •
Use appropriate capitalization •
Use the fundamentals of punctuation •
Design and implement a writing plan that includes a central idea and related ideas, and under-
stands type of audience
•
Brainstorming •
Prewriting •
Outlines •
Reading Strategies
Use context clues to choose the appropriate meaning of multiple-meaning words •
Use knowledge of the meanings of prefixes and suffixes to determine word meanings •
Use context clues to determine the meanings of unfamiliar words •
Use context clues to determine the meanings of specialized/technical terms •
Identify and use appropriate resource materials •
Recognize facts and details •
Arrange events in sequential order •
Follow complex written directions •
Perceive cause-and-effect relationships •
Predict probable future actions and outcomes •
Interpret graphs, charts, diagrams, and tables •
Make generalizations •
Evaluate and make judgments •
Describe plot, setting, character, and mood in literary selections •
Recognize the author’s point of view and purpose •
Recognize forms of propaganda •
Distinguish between fact and nonfact •
Identifying genres and elements of genres •
Figurative language, i.e., metaphors, similes, exaggerations, analogies •
Synonyms and antonyms •
Outlines, timelines, and graphic organizers •
Language Arts Exit Skills 144SB (cont.)
Language Arts Exit Skills 144SB (cont.)
When you begin working on the program, you will receive • To receive more problems using the skills already
10 questions randomly selected from the skills/subskills assigned but not yet mastered or new skills chosen at
chosen. the Skills screen, click Restart.
• To select one of four games to play, click Games.
1 For each question, choose the correct answer and then
click OK. Available games are Arthropod, Racer, Stepping
Stones, and Treasure Hunt. Directions are given
below.
• To print the Scores screen, click Print.
• To leave the program, click Exit.
For an incorrect response, you’ll receive a message such • End Lesson, which skips the lesson content and takes
as “Sorry, try again.” In some SkillBuilders, you will you to the Scores screen
get a hint to the correct solution. You will get one more • Exit, which ends Reading and Writing Strategies 7-8 and
chance to answer correctly. For a correct response on the takes you back to the program selection screen
second attempt, you’ll receive a congratulatory message,
followed by the solution. If your second answer is The Preferences Menu
incorrect, you will receive the solution.
1 To toggle the sound on or off, click Sound Enabled.
When you have answered the required number of
questions, you will see a Scores screen, which shows 2 To select skills to work on, choose Skills from the
your score for each skill worked on. Preferences menu and select skills and subskills as
described earlier.
Note: You may only change the skills you are working on
before you start answering questions.
Language Arts Exit Skills 144SB (cont.)
Playing the Games 7 Eat as many bugs as you can during the allotted time
by moving the arthropod over them.
Arthropod Gold bugs are worth more points. The arthropod
grows as it eats.
The object of Arthropod is to eat all the bugs and escape
through the hole before time runs out. 8 When you hear the frog croak, get out of the way (the
frog can attack only straight down).
9 After you have eaten all the bugs, leave through the
hole at the left side of the screen.
11 Press OK to continue.
Racer
1 For instructions, click the Instructions button. The object of Racer is to get around the track the number of
times required by your level as quickly as possible, while
2 You can choose the difficulty level by clicking the gaining points by picking up gas cans, tools, and tires along
“difficulty Level” button and selecting Easy, Medium, or the way.
Hard.
3 You can see the top 10 scores by clicking the “top ten”
button.
3 You can see the top 10 scores by clicking the Top Ten
button.
Language Arts Exit Skills 144SB (cont.)
The Racer game screen appears. 2 You can choose the difficulty level by clicking the
Difficulty Levels button and selecting Easy, Medium, or
Hard.
3 You can see the top 10 scores by clicking the Top Ten
button.
You will hear five beeps as the dots in the upper left
corner of the screen turn white in the middle. When the
final dot turns white, the car will move forward.
8 If you wish to quit early, press ESC. 6 Use the arrow keys to jump from stone to stone.
The game stops automatically after you have driven the Stones turn yellow the first time you step on them, and
number of laps required for the level, or when the time orange the second time. When bananas thrown by the
runs out. monkey land on a stone, they turn the stone blue. Step
When the game is over, your score is shown, along with on the stone again to turn it yellow, and once more to
the top 10 scores. turn it orange.
Stepping Stones 8 Avoid the jumping monkey, since it will cause you to
stop and fall off the stone.
The object of stepping stones is to turn all the stones from
blue to yellow and then to orange by stepping on them 9 If you wish to quit early, press ESC.
before time runs out. The game stops automatically after you have turned all
the stones orange, when time runs out, or when you fall
for the third time.
When the game is over, your score is shown, along with
the top 10 scores.
10 Press OK to continue.
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Language Arts Exit Skills 144SB (cont.)
Treasure Hunt 6 Use the arrow keys to move through the castle.
The object of Treasure Hunt is to gather all the coins and 7 Pick up coins by moving over them.
escape through the door as quickly as possible, while
Flashing coins are worth more points.
dodging the pirates who are trying to catch you.
8 When you have collected all the coins, leave through
the doorway at the top of the screen.
10 Press OK to continue.
Program Parameters
1 To change settings for this program, log in to the
Orchard Manager as a teacher.
1 For instructions, click the Instructions button. 2 Click Edit Class Parameters on the Classes tab, or select
a student and click Edit Student Parameters on the
2 You can choose the difficulty level by clicking the Students tab.
Difficulty Level button and selecting Easy, Medium, or
Hard. You will see a list of programs to choose from.
3 You can see the top 10 scores by clicking the Top Ten 3 Highlight Language Arts Exit Skills 144SB, and click Edit.
button. The Management screen appears. Default settings are
shown here.
4 If you wish to quit without playing the game, click Exit
Game.
You are the figure at the top of the screen in the 5 Choose whether or not students may choose to play a
doorway. The object is to collect the coins and escape game after they complete the program.
without being caught by the pirates. If the pirates catch
you, you start over at the top of the screen. You get
three chances to collect the coins and escape.
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Language Arts Exit Skills 144SB (cont.)
6 Choose whether students may select the skills and 8 Determine the percent correct required for mastery,
subskills they want to work on. which is the percent of questions a student must answer
• If you decide not to allow students to select skills correctly before mastery is achieved.
and subskills, click the Skills button and choose skills The default setting is 80 percent, or a minimum of four
and subskills as described earlier. Initial subskills are of five questions answered correctly.
shown here:
9 Click OK to save changes to the parameters.
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