Bailey's Book House

Item Description:

Bailey's Book House for Schools helps build A Foundation For Reading By Exploring Letters, Words, Rhyming and Sentence Building

In Bailey's Book House for Schools, through nine playful activities, students learn about letter names and sounds, rhyming words, adjectives, how text relates to visual symbols, positional words, letter recognition, sentence building and much more. These activities help build language concepts and thinking skills students need to communicate and make sense of the world around them.

There are 2 versions available Learning Management System 4.0 Information

In order to get the following, you must order the LMS Version of the product you would like.

The LMS ships as a separate CD-ROM. To use the software, the LMS CD must be installed prior to the House Series Program CD.

Benefits of the Learning Management System (LMS)

Ability to do cross-curricular instruction using activities from any House Series (Bailey’s Book House, Millie’s Math House, Sammy’s Science House & Trudy’s Time and Place House) installed program for any or all students with same log-in

Powerful reporting and learning management tools to target each student's individual needs–including real-time progress reports and the ability to assign activities from all House Series programs

Easy-to-administer assessments that help gauge student proficiency and inform the teacher of progress

Expanded accessibility options that can be assigned by student to ensure all students have equal access to learning

Works with other curriculum Riverdeep products like Destination Success

Meets the requirements of IDEA, 5008 and NCLB

Already correlated to many State standards

Features

• An improved user interface and updated characters that take advantage of the latest digital technology bring the House Series to life and encourage young students to interact with the program independently
• 2 new activities supplement cross-curricular instruction with both software and print activities
• Advanced print controls enable management of print resources
• Expanded explore & discover and question & answer modes provide even more opportunities for independent and/or structured learning
• Flexible delivery options that have been designed to meet every classroom budget and resource need
• All letters, words, and sentences are presented in a meaningful context
• Graphical and spoken instructions allow pre-readers to use the program
• A special highlighting technique encourages students to follow words from left to right as they hear them read aloud
• Positive gentle feedback, guidance, and natural prompts provide encouragement to students

Learning Management Tools

• Powerful reporting and learning management tools to target each student's individual needs - including real-time progress reports and the ability to assign activities from all house series programs
• Inbuilt correlation to learning objectives and standards ensure that students learning is in-line with expectations
• Easy-to-administer assessments help gauge student proficiency and inform the teacher process
• Intuitive interface includes both graphical and spoken instruction to allow pre-readers to interactive with the programs independently

Special Needs Features

• Built-in universal access and pacing options
• Ability select and assign accessibility options by student
• Closed-captioning of all audio and controls
• Screen scaling for larger screen views

**************************************** Will work on Vista and OS X.5 with workaround******************************

An installation workaround is required for the OS X.5 Operating System. Please see the links below for details or contact tech support (Houghton Mifflin) at 800.723.6322

The following link contains a workaround for installing the House Series (Bailey, Millie, Sammy, Trudy) with LMS: http://support.riverdeep.net/fix.asp?isid=45075&prog=1294820976

The following link contains a workaround for installing the House Series (Bailey, Millie, Sammy, Trudy) with Content Only: http://support.riverdeep.net/fix.asp?isid=45847&prog=1294821013

An installation workaround is required for the Vista Operating System. Please see the links below for details or contact tech support (Houghton Mifflin) at 800.723.6322

The following link contains a workaround for installing the House Series (Bailey, Millie, Sammy, Trudy) with LMS: http://support.riverdeep.net/fix.asp?isid=44856&prog=1294820976

The following link contains a workaround for installing the House Series (Bailey, Millie, Sammy, Trudy) with Content Only: http://support.riverdeep.net/fix.asp?isid=44575&prog=1294821013

Server Operating System: Windows 2000 Server or Win Server 2003 with latest service Packs or OS 10.4 Server