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FCAT Explorer includes five reading programs: two each
for elementary and middle school, and one for high
school. At each of these levels, FCAT Explorer offers an
interactive program designed to provide students with the
skills practice they need to succeed on the science FCAT.
Developed by the Florida Department of Education with
help from Florida's reading teachers,
these programs support Florida's
Sunshine State Standards.
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High School Reading
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Reading
Timeline: 10th Grade Benchmarks
features a scrolling timeline navigation. After
choosing one of several time periods, students will
read about history, science, social studies,
geography, technology, and other subjects from the
Sunshine State Standards. Reading Timeline also
provides remedial lessons on eight skills,
including Main Idea, Synthesis, and Context Clues.
The program includes a pre-test, post-test, and
post-program test for monitoring student progress.
Reading
Timeline includes a glossary, sidebar
materials, performance task items, and a skill
review.
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Middle School Reading
Reading
Factory: 6th Grade Benchmarks features a
visually stunning interface with 27 passages and related
graphics, an engaging interface, vocabulary games, and
multiple reading levels. Additional features include
word-click audio, embedded questions, and passage
highlighting for incorrect answer choices. Each passage
begins with direct vocabulary instruction, and students
complete game-like vocabulary activities after completing
groups of passages.
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Reading
Boardwalk: 8th Grade Benchmarks features
passage highlighting for incorrect answers on
multiple-choice and embedded questions. This program also
includes multiple grade levels of content (4th through
8th), adaptive support, main idea workshops,
passage-based vocabulary building activities, and an engaging theme park interface.
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- passage-based vocabulary activities and
games
- instructional support, including
answer-specific feedback and highlighted
clues
- benchmark-based lessons
- progressed-based rewards
- adaptive support levels which remediate
students when needed
- all item types, including written response
practice
- the option to assign lessons and reading
levels to students
- reports and monitoring tools in the
Teacher's Desk
- interactive glossary with Spanish and Haitian-Creole translations
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Elementary School Reading
Galactic Library:
3rd Grade Reading Benchmarks was launched
in 2003 in three phases. The program uses a playful and
age-appropriate science fiction metaphor as a consistent
thread to focus and motivate students as they move
through the program. Instructional features include
individualized, adaptive levels of support for decoding
and comprehension; an innovative
highlighted clues;
strategy for providing instructional support following
incorrect answers; and research-based vocabulary-building
activities preceding every passage.
Reading Odyssey:
4th Grade Reading
Benchmarks—an
enhanced version of Space & Safari Reader, the
original 4th grade reading program—was
launched in May 2004. The program features
individualized, adaptive levels of instructional support
and an interplanetary theme. The program includes
vocabulary-building exercises and games,
highlighted clues for incorrect answers, embedded questions, and a motivational
interface and storyline.
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