Upfront Mega Bundle
by EdAlive
The activity bank for interactive whiteboards and / or printable worksheets
This bundle contains all 14 Upfront titles on one disk. Suitable for ages 5-15.
Award Winner
- 2009 BESSIE and Eddie Award Winner
The Upfront series is based on EdAlive’s multi-award winning BRAINtastic! content and comprises three separate product sets with over 16,000 activities on 14 titles covering Maths, Word Skills and Reading.
Each Upfront title is a self-contained presentation system that works by itself or expands as other titles are added.
With Upfront you can effortlessly harness the breadth and depth of EdAlive’s vast bank of educational content to orchestrate learning. With just a few simple mouse clicks you can select whole teaching sequences or individual activities, complete with answer screens, from the bank of 16,000 high-quality teacher-created activities. Save time by using the pre-ordered sequences or mix and match to create an endless variety of tailor-made teaching resources.
Benefits and Features
With Upfront you can quickly and easily:
- Present question lists as flexible teaching sequences using an interactive whiteboard, digital projector, touch screen or display panel
- Access carefully-sequenced content directly from the modules
- Build your own customised question lists by selecting and ordering activities from the installed content modules
- Use the Worksheet Wizard to generate and print photocopiable worksheets with questions or answers
- Save your question lists for later use or to continue your lesson at a later date
- Teach or test by displaying question screens only, answer screens only, or question and answer screens
- Target specific outcomes and differentiate learning through flexible content selection
Features
- Create, load and save question lists
- Preview questions before selecting for question lists
- Drill down within a content module to select content by module, level, category or question
- Search content modules by keyword to locate appropriate questions
- Drag and drop questions to build, order and reorder question lists
- Automatically advance questions using an adjustable timer
- Advance question by question or jump from question to question within a list
- Randomise question order
- Create, present and correct tests
- Mix questions together using different modules, levels, and categories
- Add notes to a question list to record useful information
- Access the extensive help document
- On-line video based introduction and tutorial
- View direct correlations to specific curriculum outcomes
What’s in this 14-Title Mega Bundle?
Upfront MathsexpandClick to collapse
This five-title activity bank for interactive whiteboards and/or printable worksheets promotes higher-order mathematical thinking and problem-solving strategies for ages 5-15.
Prepare interactive whiteboard lessons and/or printable worksheets in minutes and get the most out of your teaching time! The Site Licence option even allows teachers to install the software at home!
- Over 11,000 carefully-crafted activities across 5 titles, each covering more than 2 years of schooling
- Promotes higher-order mathematical thinking and problem-solving strategies
- Builds mental maths ability and recall of number facts
- Covers over 90% of the maths curricula of each Australian state and New Zealand
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Benefits
- Gives every child a positive and empowering mathematics experience
- Identifies and systematically unravels areas of common misunderstanding
- Provides hints, guidance and explanations of more difficult concepts
- Promotes confident enjoyment and understanding of mathematics
Educational Content
Covers all essential maths skills and concepts including:
- Numeration
- Addition and Subtraction
- Multiplication and Division
- Fractions and Decimals
- Chance
- Patterns and Algebra
- Data
- Measurement
- Space and Geometry
Upfront Word SkillsexpandClick to collapse
This three-title activity bank for interactive whiteboards and/or printable worksheets promotes higher-order language thinking and problem-solving skills. Suitable for ages 5-15.
Prepare interactive whiteboard lessons and/or printable worksheets in minutes and get the most out of your teaching time! The Site Licence option even allows teachers to install the software at home!
- Over 3,200 carefully-crafted activities across 3 titles, each covering at least 3 years of schooling
- Builds vital practical language skills and promotes confidence in understanding and using correct spelling, grammar and punctuation
- Promotes higher-order language thinking and problem-solving skills
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Benefits
- Incorporates a wealth of carefully-sequenced, teacher-designed and targeted activities
- Gives every child a positive and empowering language experience
- Identifies and systematically unravels areas of common misunderstanding (for example, the more baffling confusions of English spelling!)
- Carefully builds word recognition from basic elements to those that are more complex
- Provides hints, guidance and explanations of more difficult concepts in spelling, grammar and punctuation
- Expands and enriches vocabulary
- Stimulates word recognition and usage
- Promotes confident enjoyment and understanding of language
Educational Content
Covers most word skills curriculum outcomes for all Australian states and New Zealand, including:
- Letter tracking, matching, sorting and recognition
- Preparatory skills for very young readers and spellers
- Spelling patterns and rules, including phonics
- Prefixes and suffixes
- Synonyms and antonyms
- Homophones, homographs, homonyms
- Nouns, pronouns, adjectives, adverbs, connectives
- Regular and irregular verbs
- Word origins including idioms, clichÃÆ'©s, metaphors, similes, etc
- Punctuation
- Grammar conventions
Upfront Reading SuccessexpandClick to collapse
This six-title activity bank for interactive whiteboards and/or printable worksheets builds essential reading skills using an integrated Phonemic and Text based approach to reading with Integrated Speech and Sound Support. Suitable for ages 4-15.
Prepare interactive whiteboard lessons and/or printable worksheets in minutes and get the most out of your teaching time! The Site Licence option even allows teachers to install the software at home!
- Over 2,800 carefully-crafted activities across 6 titles
- Builds essential reading skills using an integrated Phonemic and Text based approach to reading with Integrated Speech and Sound Support
- Based on the latest evidential research
- Supplements existing reading programmes
- Over 4,000 sound files for phonemes, vocabulary, instructions, answers and more!
- Sounds and speech in both questions and answers can be replayed as required
- Sound Support is reduced as the reading age increases, allowing children to THINK the meaning of the text and not to VERBALISE individual words as they read. Accordingly, Sound Support for CDs FIVE and SIX is greatly reduced
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Benefits
- Gives every child a positive and empowering language experience
- Identifies and systematically unravels areas of common misunderstanding
- Provides hints, guidance and explanations of more difficult concepts
- Promotes confident enjoyment and understanding of language
Educational Content
Learning areas include:
- Pre-reading activities
- Phonemic awareness: learning to listen
- Grapheme (letter) and phoneme (sound) correspondences
- Experiencing text
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Works with all standard interactive whiteboards, digital projectors, touch screens and display panels.
Minimum System Requirements
- Windows
- Operating System: Windows 7, Vista, XP SP2 or later
- Processor: 600 MHz or equivalent
- DVD-ROM: Required
- Macintosh
- Operating System: Mac OS 10.4.11 / 10.5.6 and 10.6 or later
- Processor: Universal PowerPC or Intel
- DVD-ROM: Required
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Upfront Mega Bundle is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Literacy
- Numeracy
Users can access Upfront Mega Bundle in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Keyboard
- Touchscreen
For answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and technical support visit:
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