LANGUAGE! includes a variety of technology tools that help teachers plan and instruct, and that assist students with instructional supports and practice.

New this fall, LANGUAGE! students have a new learning tool: VocabJourney

A web-based vocabulary game designed to build basic and academic vocabulary.

Students LEARN, PLAY and MASTER words from the student textbooks, Books A–F.

How do students play VocabJourney?
Students access VocabJourney by going to VPort and entering their name and password. Then:

1. Set a goal

2. Learn word sets

3. Play games

4. Master the words—earn achievements

WordCatch, WordDrop, WordVault, and WordQuick

Learn more about VocabJourney

VPORT^® is the educator's personal online portal to student data and multiple instructional resources. Student data is secure and available for review at the teacher, building, and district level. Professional development materials, videos, and supplemental materials are available to teachers, coaches, and principals in one easy to use web-based system.

All LANGUAGE! lessons in the Teacher’s Edition (3rd and 4th Editions) are whiteboard ready! Teachers can keep students involved in every lesson with this helpful technology.

The IPT contains multiple ways to customize lessons and support differentiation.

	Customizable Lesson Plans: With the Teacher Edition lesson plan text as a starting point, teachers can plan for multiple classes, insert exercises for review and reteaching, and specify activities for substitute teachers.
	Printable Interactive Text Pages: Teachers can print pages for reteaching and review, acceleration and homework, or to replace lost pages.
	Homework: Printable worksheets and other student homework materials are readily available.
	Transparencies and Templates: Blackline Masters of all transparencies and templates are provided for customizing instruction.

Worksheets and other materials help tailor instruction to meet individual student needs. Organized by unit, these materials can be used for in-class practice or reinforcement as homework.

	Word Card Generator: Customize worksheets to review Unit Words, identify different verb forms, vocabulary for sentence building, and more.
	Draw It: Students review and explore vocabulary and idioms through drawing.
	Word Unscramble and Word Search: Activities include letter and word recognition, decoding and encoding skills, handwriting, and other word-level skills.
	Word Study Guide: Students review and reteach vocabulary by alphabetizing, sorting unit vocabulary words, and writing sentences in different tenses.
	Fluency Builder Grid: Students review and practice specific words.

LANGUAGE! eReader using Kurzweil 3000 is an integrated scan and read software that provides multisensory access to reading material and tools for reading, writing and learning.

Teachers can utilize the system for whole-class instruction, small-group activities, as well as differentiation of instruction for individual student needs. Kurzweil 3000 software is sold separately.

This text-to-speech software program supports students at each Student Text level.

	Students can follow as human or synthetic voice reads Instructional Text selections.
	Key vocabulary words and definitions are read aloud.
	Access to the complete LANGUAGE! glossary is provided.
	Text can be highlighted and read back to the student by word, sentence, or paragraph.
	Students can copy and paste segments as part of writing research.
	Notes and other student writing can be read aloud.
	Students can control size, font, color, and background color of notes.

Sortegories allows students to work independently using decodable vocabulary and tracks each student's work, providing a grade for each completed activity. Students will access Sortegories from VocabJourney. They sign into VocabJourney using their user name and password, and then click on the Sortegories icon to play.

SMART board-equipped classrooms can use Sortegories for whole-class instruction.

	Sound Count		Sort It
	Morph It		Categorize It
	Phrase Building		Grammar Sort
	Analogy Building		Relate It