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INTELLITOOLS LAUNCHES TWO NEW "READYMADES," EXPANDING ITS CURRICULUM-BASED OFFERINGS
Petaluma, California, January 21, 2003 – IntelliTools®, Inc. (www.intellitools.com), for over 20 years the pioneer in learning solutions for the diverse classroom, announces the launch of two new ReadyMade™ Curriculum Activities, timed to debut at the upcoming Florida Educational Technology Conference (FETC) and Texas Computer Education Assn. (TCEA) Conference in February.
The new titles are:
Lewis and Clark, for grades 3-5 social studies units
Primary Literacy, for grades K-2 language arts units
“IntelliTools is excited to be able to provide teachers of middle elementary students with a wealth of supplementary materials about the Lewis and Clark expedition – just as the bicentennial of that historic journey begins, notes Lucinda Ray, IntelliTools’ Director of Curriculum Development. “And we are confident that Primary Literacy, a ReadyMade unit that builds students reading, phonics, and story writing skills, will provide hours of engaging literacy development for beginning readers.”
Lewis and Clark launches in the bicentennial year of the historic journey, now a popular unit in elementary social studies units on westward expansion. This unit includes reading comprehension, writing, map work, time lines, developing charts, writing newspapers and journals, and reading excerpts of the journals from the original expedition.
Primary Literacy is a sister-product to the successful Primary Writing unit launched last fall, and a companion unit to IntelliTools’ award-winning Balanced Literacy program. These units enable beginning readers to explore and practice with the very important building blocks of beginning literacy: phonics, comprehension, reading connected text, and responding to reading through writing.
About the ReadyMade Product Line:
Because IntelliTools understands that many teachers do not have the time to create large numbers of activities for their students, we produce a series of ReadyMade curriculum units that provide ready-to-use interactive learning for students in math, language arts, social studies, and science. The first ReadyMade products, Primary Writing (language arts, grades K-2), Fractions 1, and Fractions 2 (math, grades 3-5), launched in 2002.
Students can use ReadyMade Activities straight out of the box. All activities are aligned with state and national curriculum standards. Teachers also have the option of further modifying the activities for individual student needs using ReadyMades with IntelliTools’ authoring tools:
IntelliTalk II®, a talking word processor
IntelliMathics®, a virtual manipulatives environment
IntelliPics® Studio, a multimedia authoring and presentation tool
And coming in the spring, two more ReadyMades are scheduled to launch:
Animal Habitats (science, math, and language arts, grades K-1)
Oceans (science, grades 3-5)
Editors:
You are invited to learn more about new and exciting IntelliTools product launches at two upcoming events and to interview Arjan Khalsa, IntelliTools Chief Executive Officer, and Lucinda Ray, Director of Curriculum Development.
Both Arjan Khalsa and Lucinda Ray are available to discuss these new product launches, as well as to provide demonstrations of the products, at IntelliTools’ Booth #1521 at FETC and Booth #129 at TCEA. Private meetings can be scheduled in advance of these events on onsite.
About IntelliTools, Inc.
IntelliTools®, Inc., a pioneer in learning solutions for the diverse classroom, has been producing award-winning classroom tools for K-8 education for over 20 years. The IntelliTools Classroom Pac is comprised of four integrated software programs - IntelliPics® Studio, IntelliMathics™, IntelliTalk II®, and ReadyMade™ Curriculum Activities - providing a complete set of resources for both general education and special education needs students. IntelliTools® Reading: Balanced Literacy, winner of the Technology & Learning Awards in two categories, is a nine-unit program providing a full year of literacy instruction at a first-grade skill level. These IntelliTools software products are fully accessible for standard keyboard and mouse users as well as its IntelliKeys® adaptive keyboard and switch users.
For more information contact:
Paula Irons, Director, Marketing
IntelliTools, Inc.
1720 Corporate Circle, Petaluma, CA 94954
(800) 899-6687; pirons@intellitools.com