Get a Clue Vocabulary Development Series: Web-Based Edition

$5, Internet Site

Teaches: reading, vocabulary, grammar

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Get a Clue/WATS (Words And Their Stories) is a curriculum-based vocabulary program designed for students in grades 5 and up. The Internet-delivered program contains about 1,000 continuously updated target words divided into skill levels and categories. The program also includes management and assessment features, such as customized quizzing and student performance reports. The WATS System follows a multi-step process based on inductive reasoning skills. WATS begins by displaying a target word. Students then receive essential information about the word, including its pronunciation, part(s) of speech, and derivation-but, importantly, not its definition. Once they have read the derivation, the "story" behind the word, students are then presented with a series of five questions, or "Clues," designed to lead them inductively toward a working definition. ($2995.00 school site subscription).