Candler News (North Carolina, United States)

e Skills Minimod Persuasive Strategies helps students practice and master the important language skills of recognizing and classifying persuasive strategies. Persuasive strategies are techniques used to influence a reader's opinion.

Figurative Language helps students practice & master the important language skills of recognizing & understanding figurative language. Figurative language is speech or writing that departs from a literal meaning in order to achieve a special effect.

e Skills Minimod Food Terminology, Safety and Sanitation was developed to help students practice and master important word recognition and vocabulary skills essential for success in further coursework and employment in today's culinary industry.

Fact or Opinion helps student practice and master the important reading comprehension skill of determining if a passage is factually accurate or the writer's opinion.

New iPod/iPad App - Singular and Plurals was developed to help students practice and master the important language skill of identifying and forming singular and plural words.

New iPod/iPad App. Compound Words helps students practice and master the important language skills of recognizing and forming new words from two smaller words.

Parts of Speech helps students practice and master the important language skill of recognizing various parts of speech and being able to select the correct part of speech to properly complete a sentence.

A review of research literature supports the hypothesis that mobile technology with content-based, skill developing applications serve as an important supplement to an RtI Program.

e Skills Minimod Context Clues - Cloze Practice in the Content Area - Science helps students improve reading comprehension by using syntactic (sounds right) and semantic (makes sense) clues.

e Skills Learning Minimod Verbs will help students practice and master the important language skills of recognizing types of verbs and past/present tense verb conjugations.

Minimod iPod/iPad Nouns helps students practice and master the important language skills of recognizing nouns and differentiating among various types of nouns.

Context Clues - Cloze Practice helps students improve reading comprehension by using syntactic (sounds right) and semantic (makes sense) clues. The passages in this app are written in cloze format..

There are a tremendous number of apps labeled "education". This rubric has been developed to help teachers evaluate apps that meet the academic needs of their students.

If you are new to the TI-Nspire graphing calculator, and you are enrolled in an algebra course, this app is for you. The app includes 25 short video clips that will cover key topics in the second semester of algebra.

Vocabulary Builder has been developed to help students practice, master and expand their vocabulary. It has been carefully aligned with the new Core Curriculum Standards. The reading levels have been carefully controlled.

TIERS is a systematic and powerful hands-on intervention program that maps out the course for successful achievement in beginning reading. Students advance through well-developed literacy continuums as they master essential reading skills.

Word Structure helps students master the important language skill of recognizing and understanding multi-syllabic words that are made up of base words, prefixes, and/or suffixes. It has been carefully aligned with Core Curriculum Standards.

An analogy is a comparison of certain similarities between things which are otherwise unlike. This app presents analogies in both the missing word format and the colon format so that students understand both presentation formats.

Homophones helps students build mastery in this essential language arts skill of knowing the difference between words that sound alike, are spelled differently, and have different meanings.

Inferential thinking is a core Reading Comprehension Skill. The student looks for implied but unstated information in a passage.

Advanced Manufacturing Solutions, Inc. is a manufacturing business that opened in January 2011 in an effort to bring manufacturing back to Western North Carolina in a competitive manner, and to support local jobs, despite the economy.

e Skills minimod Decimals offers students 3 ways to play on 4 levels of difficulty to practice their understanding of decimals and fraction-decimal equivalents.

Practice the 5W's of Reading Comprehension with this New iPod app. Ability to recall Who, What, Why, When, Where is essential to reading comprehension. Fascinating passages about Inventors and their Inventions is the basis for this program.