Pearson Prentice Hall Pairs
"Literacy Skill
Builder Series" With WriteToLearn
Workbooks from Prentice Hall and Web-based Literacy Tools From
Pearson Knowledge Technologies Offer Middle School Students Powerful
Tools for Building Reading, Writing Skills
BOULDER, Colo., & UPPER SADDLE RIVER, N.J. - May 9, 2006- Pearson Knowledge Technologies (PKT) and Pearson Prentice Hall today
announced the bundling of two powerful literacy tools: Prentice Hall's
"Literacy Skill Builder Series" workbooks for sixth- through
eighth-grade students reading below grade level, and WriteToLearn™,
a Web-based learning tool that helps students develop writing and
reading comprehension skills. The package is geared toward students
who are taking summer school classes to improve literacy skills.
"Summer is an important time for students who struggle with reading
to build their literacy skills," said Peter McCarthy, vice
president/general manager, special markets group, Pearson Prentice
Hall School Division. "By pairing our literacy workbook series
with WriteToLearn, we're giving teachers and students a set of
multimedia learning tools for developing literacy skills."
Prentice Hall's "Literacy Skill Builder Series" workbooks
are targeted to students in grades six through eight and feature text
appropriate to students reading below grade level; small, manageable
units for students to master skills; and vocabulary-building exercises.
Developed by Pearson Knowledge Technologies, WriteToLearn works in
tandem with the exercises. With WriteToLearn, students use a Web-based
interface to practice essay writing and summarization skills, and their
efforts are measured by Pearson's state-of-the-art Knowledge Analysis
Technologies™ (KAT) engine, which automatically evaluates the
meaning of text by examining whole passages. Students receive
immediate, specific feedback on their work, allowing them to improve
their writing and summaries by completing multiple drafts without
hours of teacher assistance and grading.
"The best readers are strong writers and are able to extract
the important information necessary to write a summary," said
Lynn Streeter, president, Pearson Knowledge Technologies. "The
combination of Prentice Hall's 'Literacy Skill Builder Series'
curriculum and WriteToLearn's guided writing practice will help
students practice those skills and go back to school in the fall
with improved reading comprehension and writing abilities."
The package includes comprehensive materials for teachers, such as a
pacing guide for lesson planning, activity ideas, teaching strategies
for difficult concepts, and how to integrate WriteToLearn into
lessons. Teachers can assess student progress through pre- and
post-testing to closely monitor student progress, as well as through
the WriteToLearn teacher interface, which allows teachers to easily
assess students' writing progress individually or as a class.
For more information and pricing for Prentice Hall's "Literacy
Skill Builder Series," visit
www.phschool.com/skillbuilder.
For more information about WriteToLearn, visit
www.WriteToLearn.net.
About Pearson Prentice Hall
Pearson Prentice Hall is the nation's leading educational publisher
of scientifically researched and standards-based instructional
materials for today's 6-12th grade classroom.
About Pearson Knowledge Technologies
Pearson Knowledge Technologies is the developer of products and
services based on the only automated text analysis technology that
evaluates the meaning of whole passages. The company's Knowledge
Analysis Technologies™ (KAT) engine immediately measures
writing and content in a way that simulates a skilled human grader
and encourages better subject knowledge. Pearson Knowledge Technologies'
writing and reading skills products, such as WriteToLearn, Intelligent
Essay Assessor and Summary Street, use the KAT engine to help improve
writing, reading and comprehension skills as well as build content
knowledge for education and other markets. Pearson Knowledge
Technologies and Pearson Prentice Hall are business units of Pearson
Education, the world's leading integrated education company, which in
turn is part of Pearson (NYSE: PSO), the international media company.
For more information, press only:
Lisa Wolfe, L. Wolfe Communications, 773-325-9935, lwolfe@lwolfe.com
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