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INTERACTIVE APPLICATION

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Using the Vocabulary Fundamentals® Interactive Application for Windows® and Mac OS

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USING THE

Table of Contents

How to Use This Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Quick Tips for Getting Started . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

Conducting a Lesson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4

The Interactive Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Multiple-Choice Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Drag and Drop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

Written Responses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Feature: Text vs. The Pencil Tool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

Bingo Cards . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Categorizing with Word Webs and Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8

Selecting Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Drawing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

Matching (Pictures and Text) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

Replacing Text . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11

Interactive Applications Available in Portals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12

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3USING THE VOCABULARY FUNDAMENTALS INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONHow to Use This Application: Quick Tips for Getting Started

How to Use This ApplicationThe Vocabulary Fundamentals interactive application is your comprehensive resource for grade-level grammar, mechanics, usage and vocabulary practice. The broad scope of language skills and range in difficulty of the interactive activities enable you to precisely target those skills that each student needs to practice.

Each lesson follows the same format, making it easy for both students and teachers to use. Teachers can use an electronic whiteboard or projection system to lead interactive class lessons, or one or more students can complete the activities on their own at a computer.

Quick Tips for Getting Started

Log in to Evan-Moor Portals and click on the icon for Vocabulary Fundamentals. This will bring up the Available Units menu, where you can select a skill section to begin. Then choose the activity you would like students to complete from the Activities menu.

Click on Quick launch next lesson to jump to the lesson that comes after the one you completed last.

Title Resources

From the menu for the available activities, select a section from the left column, then click on the green checkmark in the right column to launch the lesson.

In addition to the Teacher’s Guide, the Title Resources menu includesthe e-book and links to view how Vocabulary Fundmentals is correlated to your state’s standards.

Lesson History

4USING THE VOCABULARY FUNDAMENTALS INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONHow to Use This Application: Conducting a Lesson

Conducting a Lesson

Each lesson follows the same format, beginning with an instructional rule. Once continuing, the instructional rule persists along the top. In many cases, examples to show students how the rule is applied will also be displayed. To help students focus on the activity, click the purple arrow to hide the examples if they are available. Open the example to reinforce concepts or to provide a reference for students as they complete the lesson.

• Enable Check Answer in situations where you are asking students to actively engage in entering answers. Disable if you are doing a review.

Enable or disable the Check Answer feature.

The collapsible rule helps to decrease distraction so that students can focus on the individual activities.

5USING THE VOCABULARY FUNDAMENTALS INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONHow to Use This Application: Conducting a Lesson

• Many of the activities in the Vocabulary Fundamentals interactive application utilize a selection box to complete activities.

This selection box can be positioned either as a floating window, or docked on the right side of the application. This enables the options within the selection box to remain visible in those cases where scrolling is required to complete an activity.

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Drag and drop for sorting and matching.

Color selection based on activity requirements.

Grab the gray bar at the top of the selection box and pull to undock.

Pull the floating box over to the right. A visual guide will appear, indicating a docking area.

6USING THE VOCABULARY FUNDAMENTALS INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONThe Interactive Activities

The Interactive ActivitiesThe Vocabulary Fundamentals interactive application provides leveled practice for essential vocabulary skills, reinforcing your core language arts program. Skills are presented in scaffolded three-activity units, enabling you to target the varied learning needs within your classroom

• Multiple-Choice Questions (Single and Multiple Answer)Students select the correct response(s) in order to practice grade-level language development skills in a multiple-choice, test-type activity.

• Drag and DropStudents drag answers from the word box and drop them into the correct dropboxes.


There are two methods for entering in answers that require a text entry response: Students can either type their answers into a text box, or write out there answers in a drawing box.

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2 The pencil tool activates the drawing area, allowing students to write out their answers.

A text-entry box appears by default.

Feature: Text vs. The Pencil Tool

• Written Responses Students respond to questions by writing or typing their answers within a text box.

1 Ask students to type their response into the text box, then click the Continue button.

To view an example of a correct response, or suggestions to evaluate answers, click on the blue arrow to open the flyout.

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• Bingo CardsStudents practice word meaning by reading a clue and identifying the answer on a bingo card.

• Categorizing with Word Webs and Tables

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First, ask students to select a clue. Then select an answer to the clue on the bingo card. The selection will appear next to the clue.

To redo an answer, select the word on the bingo card. This will reset the clue. Select the clue and select a new answer.

Once all of the clues have been answered, click on Check Answer. Correct answers will be highlight in green. Incorrect answers will be highlighted in red.

To continue, click the Show Answer button to view the correct answer.

If needed, review the skills covered in a group discussion.

The table grows dynamically as each word is placed.

Students drag word options to complete the graphic organizer.


• Selecting TextStudents build vocabulary skills by highlighting words using a selection box.

• DrawingStudents are asked to draw a picture in order to show their understanding of the vocabulary.

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Toggle between a pencil and an eraser to make adjustements

Ask students to place the curser inside the drawing space provided. Once the cursor is inside the drawing box, it will turn into a pencil, allowing them to draw freely.

If you need to start over, click the Clear button ( ) to clear the drawing space.

Choose an option in the selection box. For additional clarity, the options are labeled.

Make a selection according to the activity directions.

Click the Check Answer button to evaluate.



• Matching (Pictures and Text)Students practice vocabulary development while placing text or pictures in the correct spot.

1 Ask students to select words from the box then drag and drop the words into the correct spot.

To continue, click the Check Answer button.

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A red “x” will appear if students have answered the question incorrectly. A green “” will appear if they have answered the question correctly.

To continue, click the Show Answer button, and the correct answers will appear.



• Replacing text

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Point out the vocabulary development skill for the lesson. Ask students to evaluate the objective.

Words that have been edited will be highlighted in purple. You can click on these words to modify the entry at any point during the lesson.

Once all of the corrections have been made, click on Check Answer . Correct edits are highlighted in green. Any incorrect edits are highlighted in red.

Select a word. A text entry box will appear above the crossed-out word.

Enter the replacement text. Hit the enter key on your keyboard, or use the Enter button to the right of the text box.

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12Interactive Applications Available in Portals

DAILY WORD PROBLEMS

1 EMC 9731-PRO EMC 5661-PRO





6+ EMC 9736-PRO EMC 5666-PRO

DAILY PARAGRAPH EDITING






A WORD A DAY







Grade Level

Interactive Class Pack(Single Classroom Application + 20 Student Books + Teacher’s Edition)

Single Classroom Application

Student Books Class Pack (20 Student Books + Teacher’s Edition)

DAILY LANGUAGE REVIEW









EMC 9681-SS

EMC 9682-SS

EMC 9683-SS

EMC 9684-SS

EMC 9685-SS

EMC 9686-SS

EMC 6521-SS

EMC 6522-SS

EMC 6523-SS

EMC 6524-SS

EMC 6525-SS

EMC 6526-SS

EMC 9677-SS

EMC 9678-SS

EMC 6556-SS

EMC 6557-SS

EMC 6558-SS

EMC 6559-SS

EMC 6560-SS

EMC 6545-SS

EMC 6546-SS

EMC 6547-SS

EMC 6548-SS

EMC 6549-SS

EMC 6550-SS

A Word a DayHelp students learn 144 words in 180 engaging interactive lesssons. A variety of self-correcting activities help students develop an understanding of word meaning that goes past surface-level memorization.

Daily Paragraph Editing Award-winning editing practice in an interactive format perfect for whole-class instruction. Short 10- to 15-minute interactive lessons target capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and language skills. Each weekly lesson features a 4-paragraph composition for students to edit on screen.

Daily Language Review Present students with 36 weeks of motivating and interactive language practice. The Daily Language Review interactive whiteboard application helps raise test scores with focused and engaging practice on grammar, punctuation, usage, and sentence-editing skills.

Daily Word ProblemsWatch students’ problem-solving skills improve day by day with 36 weeks of interactive instruction. Students develop standards-correlated math concepts such as addition, fractions, algebra, and more while completing over 100 self-correcting activities.

GRADES1–6+

GRADES1–8

GRADES2–6+

GRADES1–6+

13Interactive Applications Available in Portals

BUILDING SPELLING SKILLS







Grade Level

Interactive Class Pack(Single Classroom Application + 20 Student Books + Teacher’s Edition)

Single Classroom Application

Student Books Class Pack (20 Student Books + Teacher’s Edition)

Language Fundamentals

1 N/A EMC 5861-PRO

2 N/A EMC 5862-PRO

3 N/A EMC 5863-PRO

4 N/A EMC 5864-PRO

5 N/A EMC 5865-PRO

6+ N/A EMC 5776-PRO

Vocabulary Fundamentals

1 N/A EMC 5871-PRO

2 N/A EMC 5872-PRO

3 N/A EMC 5873-PRO

4 N/A EMC 5874-PRO

5 N/A EMC 5875-PRO

6+ N/A EMC 5876-PRO

EMC 9633-SS

EMC 9634-SS

EMC 9635-SS

EMC 9636-SS

EMC 9637-SS

EMC 9638-SS

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

N/A

Building Spelling SkillsEverything you need to present interactive lessons and enhance learning! Each app contains 30 spelling units, including: A spelling list, sentences for dictation and four interactive practice activities

Language Fundamentals Grade-appropriate interactive practice students need for a broad spectrum of language skills -- grammar, sentences, mechanics, and more! The review section covers a small subset of skills and may be used as an assessment of student skill acquisition.

Vocabulary Fundamentals Give your students the targeted vocabulary skills instruction they need to perform well in the classroom and on assessments. Over 125 activities of scaffolded practice on vocabulary skills and concepts such as synonyms, antonyms, root words, prefixes, suffixes, and more

GRADES1–6+

GRADES1–6+

GRADES1–6+

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