This program encourages exploration and helps students identify 50 verbs in 8 engaing scenes. It is ideal for building vocabulary and facilitating social interaction.

Exploring Verbs...
• Trains 50 verbs in full-screen settings
• Expands vocabulary knowledge using realistic contexts
• Offers open-ended exploration and identification activities

Suggested for students (Pre-K-12) with:
• Autism, developmental disabilities, language-learning disabilities, and hearing impairments
• Also English language learners (Pre-K-6)

Find... The girl is pulling a rabbit."

Product Description:
Exploring Verbs encourages users to explore and interact with 50 early verbs in 8 full-screen settings. You select which scenes will be used and how many verbs in each scene will be trained.

How Exploring Verbs works…
The program begins by offering instruction on each object in a scene (“This girl is pulling a rabbit. Find... The girl is pulling a rabbit.”). Then the student is asked to identify the verbs without instruction (“Find... The boy is walking.”). Once a student can identify each verb in a scene without instruction, the program automatically moves to the next scene.

"Find... The boy is walking."

Exploring Verbs offer two types of reinforcement for correct answers: either the verb animates or amusing characters perform a short skit using enriched language.

Automatic record-keeping
Exploring Verbs features extensive data collection for documenting student performance. Built-in reports allow you to easily track your students’ learning activities over time and ensure accountability.

Exploring Verbs has a companion program, Exploring Nouns. To learn more about it, click here.

 

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Activities

Eight Activities are Available

Optimized Intervention
This activity tracks student responses and automatically guides the user through the curriculum. The program moves among three training levels, each with a different amount of instructional support.

Exploration
This open-ended activity lets students select a character on the screen, hear the verb, and optionally, see the associated text and animation.

Identification
Students are asked to identify verbs from selected scenes. You can choose any one of the three training levels.

Mixed Explore/Identify
With this option, the program alternates between the Exploration and Identification activities.

Testing
This activity can be used to document pre- or post-training performance.

Three Supplemental Activities
• Word Introduction (Cards) presents a single verb and its associated animation on a black background.
• Word Introduction (Scene) introduces verbs one at a time until a full scene is displayed.
• Animated routines use enriched language to expand knowledge of selected verbs.

System Requirements

Macintosh® System Requirements:
• 300 MHz or faster PowerPC or Intel processor
• Mac OS® 8.1 or later, including any OS X
• 128 MB RAM, 256 MB RAM for OS X
• 40 MB available disk space
• 8x speed CD-ROM
• 800x600 resolution

Windows® System Requirements:
• 300 MHz CPU or faster
• Windows® 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista or later
• 64 MB RAM
• 40 MB available disk space
• Windows compatible sound card
• 8x speed CD-ROM
• 800x600 resolution

Authors

Authors:
Mary Sweig Wilson, Ph.D,
Bernard J. Fox, M.S.

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