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Vocabulary A-Z wins Technology & Learning Award of Excellence
ProQuest's Latest LearningPage Resource is a Winner
ANN ARBOR, Michigan, October 16, 2006 -- ProQuest Company announced today that
Vocabulary A-Z, a ProQuest LearningPage product, is a winner of the Technology & Learning Award of Excellence. The award honors technology-based curriculum products that break new ground in a significant way and also "best-of-breed" examples that demonstrate clear superiority over similar products in the market. The winners, chosen by more than 35 educator-judges who tested the 110+ entries, will be featured in the December 2006 issue of Technology & Learning.
"We value the Technology & Learning Award of Excellence for its recognition of the highest quality education products available today," says John Campbell, senior vice president of ProQuest Education. "Supporting vocabulary is a critical component to improving reading comprehension, and Vocabulary A-Z, like all ProQuest LearningPage resources, provides teachers with an affordable resource to accomplish this goal. We're honored that Vocabulary A-Z has been recognized."
Launched in March 2006, Vocabulary A-Z is an online vocabulary lesson builder enabling teachers to generate custom vocabulary lessons that reflect research-evidenced best practices and support the need for differentiated instruction, a teaching model recognizing the diverse learning needs of each child in the classroom. Teachers can choose from a dynamic word bank with new words added each month. The website currently has more than 4,500 words covering dozens of topics and categories, including:
- Vocabulary in core subjects including English, math, science, and social studies
- Vocabulary in other subject areas such as arts, health, and everyday words
- Word functions such as adjectives, verbs, and antonyms.
The vocabulary lesson generator creates downloadable, printable resources that give teachers everything needed for a week's work of instruction per lesson plan, at a fraction of the cost of traditional print workbooks and worksheets. Materials include lesson plans, pacing, rubrics, worksheets, games, activities, and pre- and post-assessment tools.
"As a leading K-12 content provider, ProQuest strives to provide innovative delivery of research-based teaching materials that help educators improve student achievement at every grade level," said Bob Holl, co-founder and vice president of ProQuest LearningPage. "Vocabulary A-Z fulfills that mission by meeting the considerable need for affordable, easily accessed resources for differentiated reading instruction."
Vocabulary A-Z solidly supports the vocabulary pillar of No Child Left Behind (one of the five pillars of reading comprehension as set forth in NCLB legislation: phonemic awareness, phonics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension) and recommendations by the National Reading Panel. Along with other ProQuest LearningPage resources, Vocabulary A-Z is designed to give schools affordable access to a comprehensive collection of quality, customizable, research-based supplemental teaching materials.
For more information visit www.proquestk12.com.
About ProQuest Company
ProQuest Company (PQE: NYSE) is based in Ann Arbor, Michigan, and is a publisher of information and education solutions. We provide products and services to our customers through three business segments: Education, Information and Learning, and Business Solutions. Our Education segment -- including Voyager, LearningPage, and ExploreLearning -- is a leading provider of K-12 curriculum products, in-school core reading programs, reading and math intervention programs, and professional development programs for school districts throughout the United States. Through our Information and Learning segment, which primarily serves the library and academic market, we collect, organize and publish content from a wide range of sources including newspapers, periodicals and books. Our Business Solutions segment is primarily engaged in the delivery in electronic form of comprehensive parts and service information to the automotive market. Its products transform complex technical data, like parts catalogs and service manuals, into easily accessed electronic information. For the world's automotive manufacturers and their dealer networks, ProQuest also secures business-to-business information and retail performance management services.
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