Brain Builders: Reading and Language, Grade 5- Interactive Game

Motivate children to practice key language and reading skills with interactive theme-based activities. Each of the 12 skill-based categories includes audio reinforcement, two levels of difficulty, and a varying progression of tasks to keep children engaged and challenged.

To maximize learning, every reading or language concept is introduced with delightful graphics, a concise review of the focus skill, and a variety of interactive activities to practice the skill, such as matching homophones to a sentence, building words with suffixes, and identifying parts of speech.

The fifth grade level covers the following standards-aligned reading and language skills:

• Idioms
• Synonyms /Antonyms
• Homophones
• Homographs
• Prefixes
• Suffixes
• Greek and Latin Roots
• Parts of Speech
• Analogies
• Fact or Opinion?
• Word Meaning from Context
• Main Idea

Additional features include:

• Progress updates: children can see their progress through each of the categories.
• Awards: children can earn a personalized sticker, printable on standard Avery labels, after completing a level.
• Audio reinforcement: amusing sounds correspond to successful completion of tasks or activities to keep children engaged.
• Flexible use: adaptable for whole-class or small-group collaborative learning, as well as for individual enrichment at a classroom computer or at home.

Correlated to state standards and Common Core State Standards