GED Instructional Program Details

Language Usage Curriculum

This program directs students beginning with early grades in the proper use of the spoken and written English language using the Four-Step Approach in each title series. Language Usage I, II, and III have extensive tutorial and instructional voice support. Each Language Usage title offers extensive tutoring in the use the English language through lessons that focus on each part of speech. Students learn to identify and correctly use nouns, verbs, modifiers, and the other parts of speech. They learn the importance of sentence construction, identifying sentence parts including simple and complex subjects and predicates, verbs, and phrases.

Process Writing Curriculum

This program directs the students through the entire writing process from learning to write a complete sentence to expressing themselves creatively through essays or other forms of writing. The Process Writing titles are designed to move students to the comprehension, application, analysis, synthesis, and evaluation levels of learning. The Process Writing titles emphasize six aspects of writing, including ideas, organization, voice, word choice, fluency and conventions. Students are guided through the entire writing process.

Reading Curriculum

This program directs students from beginning reading levels to more advanced reading skills utilizing a Four-Step Approach in each title series. Reading I, II, and III have extensive tutorial and instructional voice support. Each Reading title consists of four units: Reviews, Word Analysis, Comprehension, and Literary Skills.

Building Vocabulary Curriculum

This program directs students from beginning reading levels to more advanced reading skills utilizing a Four-Step Approach in each title series. Building Vocabulary I, II, and III have extensive tutorial and instructional voice support. This approach provides for the phonetic and visual introduction of the student to new words and word sounds, provides for multiple exposures to the use of words and word sounds while providing the student an opportunity to use words in context and in whole language exercises. The software design provides an engaging, colorful learning environment.

Mathematics Curriculum

A sequence of 18 titles provides an extensive, e-learning instructional process. In addition to a complete mathematics curriculum that is appropriate at each grade level, each title contains exercises that require the student to choose operations and develop strategies to solve real-world problems. Students learn to use common sense, mental math, estimation, and other methods to solve problems and check answers for reasonableness.

Science Curriculum

Social Studies Curriculum

Spanish

The software features a unique multimedia authoring system that enables the teacher to create and modify curriculum content. Through this feature, it is a simple process to add new text, graphics, video, or voice to any lesson to ensure that the lesson content never becomes outdated.

Students will work through their course of study, doing the lessons and taking the assessments at the end of each instructional unit, until they attain grade level proficiency.