- Developer: Curriculum Associates, LLC
- Website: Official website
- Release Date: 2013-10-30
- Supports: Family Sharing
- Languages: English
- Compatibility: Requires iOS 5.1.1 or later. Compatible with iPad.
## Description
Help your students build a rich vocabulary of essential words! World's Worst Pet exposes students to over 1000 Tier Two words at 6 different levels through four engaging games. Aligned to the Common Core, this app provides student-friendly definitions, a playful narrative, a fun reward system and thought-provoking writing prompts!
World's Worst Pet is part of i-Ready-- an award-winning, blended learning program published by Curriculum Associates. Learn more about i-Ready at i-ready.com/empower.
FEATURES
World's Worst Pet is structured to provide repeated exposures to a cluster of conceptually related target words.
• Teaches more than 1000 words across five grade levels, from grades 4 - 8 with content available for students who are working a level behind
• Student-friendly definitions provide clear explanations with rich examples that illustrate how each word is used.
• Engaging narrative and reward system keeps students motivated
• Activities include word context, word sort, synonyms, and antonyms.
• Students see the same word multiple times in a single set of activities.
• Includes Spanish cognates
• Includes immediate feedback
• Uses a real human voice not synthesized robotic speech
• Aligns with Common Core State Standards
• Writing prompts provide an opportunity to use words in types of writing identified by the Common Core
RESEARCH BASE
World's Worst Pet leverages best practices from Reading research
• Targets Tier Two words, selected from research-based lists.
• Also targets domain-specific words, including science and social studies words.
• Teaches words in conceptually related clusters
• Provides clear student-friendly explanations
• Provides multiple exposures and repeated practice across a variety of contexts
• Helps students make multiple connections between words and their experiences.
• Explores word relationships, including synonyms and antonyms
• Includes Spanish cognates such as vehiculo for vehicle or numeroso for numerous
• Includes writing prompts focused on the target words in each cluster
ALIGNED TO COMMON CORE
World's Worst Pet develops concepts, skills, and strategies as targeted by the Common Core.
• "The importance of students acquiring a rich and varied vocabulary," write the authors of the Common Core, "cannot be overstated."
• Tier Two words are central to understanding complex text, and World's Worst Pet provides multiple exposures and repeated practice in these words.
• Aligns with vocabulary standards in these sections of the Common Core State Standards:
o Reading Standards for Literature
o Reading Standards for Information Text
o Language Standards: Vocabulary Acquisition and Use
SUPPORT
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Phone: 800-225-0248
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