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MindPlay

This program puts a veteran reading teacher and speech pathologist in every classroom. Reading Coach offers one-on-one teaching through interactive and on-screen video for children reading at or below grade level. Teaching phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, test comprehension and vocabulary, this program provides interactive lessons, and automatic advance feature, and teacher tools, including reports and student accountability features.

Orchard

Orchard is K-12 curriculum software instructional solutions, which motivates students to learn key concepts in reading, language arts, math and science. It is specifically written around the Assessment Repository for testing. Orchard included 150 individual skill trees offering comprehensive coverage of over 3,000 key skills and concepts in reading, writing, language arts, math, science, and developmental high school.

Practice Planet

PracticePlanet is a dynamic online test practice program that raises tests scores by giving students practice on test taking strategies and continuously refreshing their memory on the skills that will appear on their high stakes state tests. To accomplish this, the Mississippi PracticePlanet assessment questions are aligned to either the test blueprints, sample tests, or to the curriculum standards, all of which help prepare students for these important tests. PracticePlanet’s Mississippi tests are derived from the Mississippi Curriculum Frameworks Competencies and Objectives.

With 24/7 access, motivating activities and easy to understand feedback, students, teachers and parents will appreciate improved test scores and time saved in grades 2-9 math and language arts classes.

Educational Leadership Solutions

This Educational Leadership Solutions electronic lesson planner provides teachers and administrators a user-friendly and cost-saving product that incorporates your state's benchmarks and competencies by pre-loading them into the software. It is a network solution to the traditional shortcomings of lesson planning. E-Z Lesson Planner fits any K-12 lesson plan and archives the data from the previous year for easy review and revision for teachers and administrators. Teachers can create plans, faster than ever, which are then immediately available to others on the network.

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Headsprout

Headsprout Early Reading is an award winning program specially designed to help K-2+ struggling readers catch up using fun, interactive lessons and "Ready to read" printed stories. It is research-based and guarantees results.

Symphony Math

Symphony Math systematically helps elementary school students improve math concepts, fluency, procedures and applications through supplemental math conceptualization and math operations interventions.  The Symphony Math software takes an individualized, engaging approach to systematic and comprehensive development and also allows for custom lesson development.

The strategy of using the "zone of Optimal Learning Flow" insures that students are never cognitively overwhelmed but are continually challenged.

Lessons can even be assigned as homework for students with Internet access.

Ascend Education

Ascend assesses students' math knowledge based on NCTM and your state standards and prescribes individual learning paths and provides seamless integration with GraspMath content to enable students with proven, consistent instructional methods.  Ascend offers differentiated instructional paths and can be used before school, after school, in the classroom, in the lab and at home giving teachers the tools they need to save time and the flexibility they need to customize learning for their particular environment.  Further, the automated reporting makes grading students and communicating results between students, teachers, administrators and parents easy.

 


"I have been buying materials from Educational Materials Specialists for over ten years. The salespeople are always available and helpful to find the materials I need, but they are never pushy. Their materials have been up to date with curriculum changes and far ahead of other companies. Our school has purchased software, books, and all types of instructional materials for the classroom. I rate them head and shoulders above any other company with which I have dealt."