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Reading Kingdom is an online program that teaches students to read and write with comprehension at a 3rd grade level (Lexile 750). It's the only program that uses the "Phonics Plus" method which combines phonetic skills with important visual and cognitive skills that turn kids into successful readers.

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Works on any computer or tablet with an internet connection.

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Testimonials

Reading Kingdom is a monumental work that makes available to educators, therapists and families a simple, straightforward and time-tested approach.

Reading Kingdom is the only program I recommend because it is fun for kids, easy to use, well grounded in research and IT WORKS! There is no better program.

Reading Kingdom provides the most complete method for teaching reading and writing that I have seen in the eleven years that I have been teaching. Thank you for this outstanding program.

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Reading Kingdom Benefits:

Research based and incredibly effective.

The program adapts to every child and provides individualized instruction.

Kids can use the program on their own

It's fun so children think they're playing a game and want to use it.

It works as a standalone curriculum or a supplement.

According to the Department of Education:

2 out of 3 children fail to become proficient readers!

It's shocking, but true!

Until now educators relied on phonics to teach reading. But fewer than 1 in 5 words can be "sounded out" and there are 1,768 ways to spell 40 sounds. Consider the sentence above where "ea" can be pronounced 13 different ways!

Reading requires 6 skills. Phonics teaches only 1. Reading Kingdom teaches all 6. It is the first system available that uses the "Phonics-PLUS" system.

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Reading Kingdom’s “Phonics-PLUS” decoding system

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Summer-Reading

Welcome to Summer Reading on Home Base!

May 9 - August 19, 2022

The Scholastic Summer Reading program offers kids an exciting, free, and safe summer reading experience, while helping to provide books to kids with limited or no access over the summer, keeping every child reading.

A Fun, Free Program for Kids!

From May 9 through August 19, kids can visit the summer zone in Scholastic Home Base, a completely free digital destination which offers stories, characters, games, and a community of readers. Home Base is moderated for safety 24/7.

Visit Home Base

By creating an account on Home Base, kids can join a community of readers and will be able to read books and stories; attend weekly author events; interact with their favorite characters; play book-based games and activities; join dance parties; and more!

Keep a Reading Streak

Kids will be able to track their summer reading by reading every day and maintaining a Reading Streak in Home Base.

The longer a child extends their reading streak, the more digital experiences they earn! Kids can read any book of their choice and download and print a report of their reading progress at any time.

Help Donate Books

By keeping reading streaks in Home Base, kids will help unlock a donation of 100,000 books from Scholastic to Save the Children. The books will go to kids in rural America with limited or no access to books.

A Fun, Free Program for Kids!

Visit Home Base

By creating an account on Home Base, kids can join a community of readers and will be able to read books and stories; attend author events; interact with their favorite characters; play book-based games and activities; join dance parties; and more!

Keep a Reading Streak™

Kids will be able to track their summer reading by reading every day and maintaining a Reading Streak™ in Home Base.

The longer a child extends their Reading Streak™, the more digital experiences they earn! Kids can read any book of their choice and download and print a report of their reading progress at any time.

Help Donate Books

By keeping Reading Streaks™ in Home Base, kids will help unlock a donation of 100,000 books from Scholastic to Save the Children. The books will go to kids in rural America with limited or no access to books.

A Fun, Free Program for Kids!

Visit Home Base

Keep a Reading Streak

Kids will be able to track their summer reading by reading every day and maintaining a Reading Streak in Home Base.

The longer a child extends their reading streak, the more digital experiences they earn! Kids can read any book of their choice and download and print a report of their reading progress at any time.

Help Donate Books

Vistit Home Base

Keep a Reading Streak™

Kids will be able to track their summer reading by reading every day and maintaining a Reading Streak™ in Home Base.

Help Donate Books

Join Home Base and Start your Reading Streak™!

Download Home Base today to participate in Summer Reading!

Meet New Authors Every Month!

Meet your favorite authors in live, virtual events! Visit Home Base at the designated times to join.

May 18 at 3:00pm EST

Claribel Ortega

Author of

Witchlings and Ghost Squad

Kwame Mbalia

Author of

Last Gate of the Emperor

May 18 at 3:00pm EST

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August

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August

August 10 at 3:00pm ET / 12:00pm PT

R. L. Stine

Author of

Goosebumps

Lauren Tarshis

Author of

I Survived

Meet New Authors Every Month!

Visit Home Base at the time of these virtual, live events to join.

August

August 10 at 3:00pm ET / 12:00pm PT

R.L. Stine

Author of

Goosebumps

Lauren Tarshis

Author of

I Survived

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August

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Join our Daily Activities in Home Base!

Activities run every week from May 16 through August 19

Download the Summer Reading Activity Booklet!

Includes 8 activities featuring favorite characters!

Parents, Teachers, and Librarians:

Learn more about Home Base Educational and Safety Features

Home Base employs multiple safeguards to protect children online. Find out more by visiting our Parents and Educators page.

The Ultimate Summer Reading Guide for Parents

Get book recommendations and reading tips for kids of all ages. Help your child continue to read and learn this summer!

Enter the Scholastic Summer Reading Sweepstakes

100 WINNERS will receive a drawstring bag full of Scholastic books

* Books featured not guaranteed in prize pack

NO PURCHASE NECESSARY. Enter by August 31, 2022. Open to legal residents of the United States and Canada (excluding Quebec) over the age of 18, who are a parent/legal guardian of children 15 and under. Void where prohibited. For official rules, click here.

Need Help Getting Started?

Head to the Home Base help page to learn how to create an account, login, and start exploring!

We also have video tutorials that walk you through Home Base, from the basics to the full features.

Every Child Deserves the Opportunity to Learn

Working across rural America, Save the Children's education experts help children get ready for kindergarten and achieve critical reading milestones.

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Join Home Base!

Start your Reading Streak™ now!

Get Ready for Summer Reading on Home Base!

From May 9 through August 19, kids can visit the summer zone in Scholastic Home Base, a free digital destination which offers stories, characters, games, and a community of readers. Home Base is moderated for safety 24/7.

Join Home Base

Keep a Reading Streak™

Kids will be able to track their summer reading by maintaining a Reading Streak in Home Base. The longer a child extends their reading streak, the more digital experiences they earn! Kids can read any book of their choice and download and print a report of their reading progress at any time.

Help Donate Books

By keeping reading streaks in Home Base, kids will unlock a donation of 100,000 books from Scholastic to Save the Children for kids in rural America with limited or no access to books.

How to Join

To participate you must download or play the Home Base app which is available on these platforms:

How do readers create an account for/log in to home base?

Go to scholastic.com/homebase or download “Home Base by Scholastic” from the App Store or Google Play.
Click the PLAY NOW button.
Click PLAY.
On this page, kids can sign in with an existing Scholastic Kids site account, or create a new one.
- If they sign in, they'll be taken directly to Home Base
- To create a new account: Click the REGISTER NOW button
Fill out Step 1 to create a username, then click NEXT.
Enter an email address, create a password, then click REGISTER
They'll get a confirmation email at the email address they provided, and they will be taken to Home Base!

Need more information?

Head to our FAQ area to learn how to create an account, login, and start exploring!

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Summer Reading Event Schedule

Author Events

June Event
- Authors & Date TDB

July Event
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August Event
- Authors & Date TDB

Weekly Events

MONDAY: Summer Book Promos [Newsfeed]
- Newsfeed post dedicated to one book on our retail summer promotions list a week. Offers 5-6 pages of excerpt using the 3-panel comic format.

TUESDAY: Wings of Fire Meetups with Admin Becky
- Weekly fan meetups for 30 minutes. Event activities include trivia, fun facts, and more.

WEDNESDAY: Writing RPG events with Admin Gavin
- Weekly storytelling RPG. What will happen next?!

THURSDAY: Trivia event with Admin Becky
- Weekly themed trivia! Examples: Dog Man trivia, The Bad Guys trivia, historical I Survived-themed trivia

FRIDAY: Fanart Feature Friday [Newsfeed]
- Five featured pieces of art from the Newsfeed shared and pinned in one post at the top of the feed.

What is Home Base?

Scholastic Home Base is a SAFE, FREE 3D interactive world dedicated to keeping kids engaged with favorite stories through book-based games, live author events, and a large community of readers.

In Home Base, kids can:

Explore beloved stories, interact with favorite characters, and discover their next must-reads
Play games inspired by popular books
Reinforce skills like geography, astronomy, physics, spelling, writing, and more!
Meet Scholastic authors in live digital events
Express creativity through writing stories and creating comics
Connect with other readers via filtered chat

Is Home Base safe?

Yes! Home Base employs multiple safeguards to protect children online, including 24/7 human moderation and a sophisticated automated filter to ensure content safety. Additionally, the Home Base admins model and encourage positive digital engagement, providing a great introduction for kids to internet safety.

What computer games should be added to the school curriculum

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What computer games should be added to the school curriculum

What computer games should be added to the school curriculum - RIA Novosti, 26.05. 2021

What computer games should be added to the school curriculum

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When I am telling the benefits of traditional hobbies, such as reading books or, say, chess, a marshmallow. . I still love to read, and there were years when I managed to absorb a book a day, so I can say with full knowledge of the matter: in terms of teaching life, books are far behind computer games.

The same is true of traditional games such as chess or, for example, Go, which has recently been finally conquered by robots. I have had to get involved in both, and I am convinced that if the great grandmasters and champions of the past had access to good computer games, they would agree with me. You and I live in the 21st century, and it is foolish to cast aside its achievements just for the reason that we were not told about them in school lessons.

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Please note: the benefits of reading are usually spoken of very vaguely, claiming that it "develops the brain" and "broadens one's horizons." The benefits of computer games can be defined much more specifically.

Let's start simple. Dynamic multiplayer games like Team Fortress or different versions of CoD are good at developing reactions. It's a classic sport, with all the benefits that come with it, but without most of the nasty side effects like sports injuries.

Multiplayer team games such as Dota or LoL teach teamwork, resolve conflicts gently, and properly distribute responsibilities between team members. Players have the opportunity to try out different roles and practice managing a small group.

Role-playing games, RPGs, teach the essential skill of making plans in life. All RPGs are built on the same principle: at first, the player is weak and poor, but as he "pumps" his skills and completes important tasks, he acquires strength, money, and the connections necessary to solve the main game tasks.

Wrath of the gods: five computer games that offended religious feelings The player, for example, learns to extract iron from the bowels of the earth, smelt steel out of it, and then make better tools out of steel. I suppose it is because of this that Minecraft was included in the program of some Swedish schools. True, I would supplement Minecraft with at least the Factorio game, which provides basic knowledge about the organization of production, but I think this is still ahead of the Swedes.

Screenshot of the game "Minecraft"

Survival games like "Rimvolda" stand apart, in which the player manages a small community of people who are poorly compatible with each other: there he has to not only plan the "family" budget and decide who will hunt, but who cook food, but also to resolve quarrels that arise among his wards.

Of course, strategies play the most important role in learning. Good historical games, like Europa or Victoria by Paradoxes, allow the player to take control of the state and understand why simple decisions like "shoot them all" or "take away and divide" are so attractive on paper, in real life lead to disaster.

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Games that offer to be, say, the president of a small tropical island, turning it into either a banana republic or a flourishing tourist paradise. Adding to the same sobering category are city builders like Cities XL, after playing which it becomes clear that the problem of traffic jams is much deeper than it seems to the average driver.

There are also strategies of a purely military nature, in which the emphasis is not on politics with the economy, but on the direct command and control of troops. Excellent simulators have already been released of both tactical battles, in which it is necessary to competently place fighters on the ground, and military campaigns, in which the supreme commander gives orders to entire armies and fronts on the headquarters map.

In my time, I devoted a lot of time to economic simulations such as Sid Meier's Railroads. When building branches, it was necessary to take into account not only technical details, such as the slope of the rails and the power of locomotives, but also to seriously think about the economic component, organizing bond issues and deciding how much money the company would bring from connecting the next city to the railway network.

Screenshot of Sid Meier's Railways

Computer shooter games are dangerous for the brain, scientists say force the player to make difficult moral choices over and over again in situations where there is no right decision. This is an incredibly important educational function, which, unfortunately, is completely absent in both books and films.

A very important skill that is difficult for a student to learn outside the game world is the ability to lose. If games like the aforementioned "The Witcher", "This is the Police" or, say, "This War of Mine" show that sometimes you have to choose between bad and very bad, then online sports games like Starcraft make you realize that in real life life, even excellent students have to regularly lose, and not to disembodied computer characters, but to real, live rivals. It is probably unnecessary to explain why it is so important to learn how to make responsible decisions as early as possible and calmly endure the unpleasant consequences of your own wrong choice.

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Now that I've skimmed through the very top of the world of educational computer games, I need to tell you why in real life games turn out to be for most of the players . .. useless. The fact is that games, like books, are different. Just as pulp fiction can only help to kill time in transport, so "casual" games are no more useful than, say, a card game at twenty-one.

Non-learning games from social networks are usually focused on two tasks: to draw the player in as much as possible and to extract as much money from him as possible. Another vast category of games, primitive fashion puzzles like Angry Birds, is perhaps even more harmful - these games offer the player to perform repetitive mechanical actions, dumbing him down with the reliability of an iPhone assembly line. Jumping from one simple game to another, the player naturally degrades.

You can change the situation in exactly the same way that good teachers do with books - by offering students the best examples of the genre. Of course, just saying the name aloud will not be enough: mastering, say, "Victory Day", one of the most historically accurate simulators of World War II, will require at least several hours of intense training: a beginner is very unlikely to get carried away with this game. However, a properly built program completely allows you to lead the player through all genres from scratch, introducing him to most of the gaming masterpieces created to date.

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By the way, in the course of such training, one more traditional school trouble can be defeated: the development of an animal fear of learning everything new. While adults who are far from computer games often cannot bring themselves to read a one-page instruction manual for a TV, experienced players master even very complex game systems without trembling in their hearts.

I am not an idealist. Although our country has now taken a course towards the digital economy, it will take at least another 5-10 years before computer games are carefully included in the school curriculum. However, this does not mean that everything is lost for you and me - no one bothers us to play games without the help of the state. If you are an experienced player, you do not need to explain anything. If not, find one: he will advise you which games to start with and which ones you should not even touch with a long stick because of a two-meter fence.

Programs for ONYX BOOX :: Electronic books ONYX BOOX

Office applications

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Dictionaries

Part 2. Dictionaries and notes.

Games

Part 3. Games.

Cloud storages and players

Part 4. Cloud storages and players.

MyBook for ONYX

Electronic book reader.

To install the program, do the following:

Copy the program in *.apk format to the internal memory of the device.
Go to Settings > Applications > Application settings.
Check the Unknown sources section.
Launch Device Manager (Memory contents).
Find recorded file, run it.
Agree with installation.

Download file for Android 4.x: MyBook.apk

Download file for Android 6: MyBook.apk

Alreader X Pro for ONYX

Program for reading electronic books.

To install the program, do the following:

Copy the program in *.apk format to the internal memory of the device.
Go to Settings > Applications > Application settings.
Check the Unknown sources section.
Launch Device Manager (Memory contents).
Find recorded file, run it.
Agree with installation.

A detailed description can be found on the developer's website. The instruction is installed along with the program in the internal memory.

Download file (for Android 6 and above): AlReaderXPro.apk
Download file (for Android 4. 2 and 4.4): AlReaderXPro_android.apk

FBReader Premium Beta

Popular (especially in Russia and in / in Ukraine) program for reading electronic books. Works on Android and iOS. Supports many formats, the main ones are fb2 and ePub. Includes all the features of modern reader programs: tables of contents, bookmarks/notes, easy text navigation, search, built-in library. There is synchronization (via the cloud) between devices linked to the same account. So you can read on your phone during the day, in the evening on the reading room, and not worry about opening the same book, in the same place, with the same bookmarks.

To install the program, do the following:

Copy the program in *.apk format to the internal memory of the device.
Go to Settings > Applications > Application settings.
Check the Unknown sources section.
Launch Device Manager (Memory contents).
Find recorded file, run it.
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