Intellitools Classroom Suite Activities

Spotlight on Learning creates activities that work with Intellitools Classroom Suite software program.  IntelliTools Classroom Suite is a software program that in addtion to included activities, contains an authoring environment which allows teachers to modify or create activities that support curricula.  It is our authoring tool of choice because it contains a managment feature that allows teachers to customize and differentiate instruction and reporting features that supports the use of data in assessing student instructional needs.

Math Activities

These IntelliTools Classroom Suite activities are aligned to skills identified in the NCTM standards and apply research-based best practice in teaching and learning mathematics.  Each activity provides the student with direct instruction through video clips that model the activity and the metacognitive strategies that lead to successful completion.  Activities can be accessed using a keyboard, mouse, touch screen, IntelliKeys keyboard or switch input. All activities take advantage of the management system by providing both a summary percentile score and each student response.

Primary Math:Number & Operations

• pre-Kindergarten through grade 2

• Over 45 activities with hundreds of examples.
• includes activities in developing number sense, counting, addition, subtraction, and place value.

Intermediate Math:Number & Operations

• grades 3-5

• Over 25 activities with hundreds of examples.
• includes activities in two and three column computation with and without regrouping, place value, multiplication, division fractions and decimals

Available June 1, 2008

Phonemic Awareness Activities

These IntelliTools Classroom Suite activities provide practice in phonemic awareness in three of the identified target skills using an explicit method of instruction with systematic error correction. Students practice sound isolation, phoneme segmentation and blending in a consistent format.

This set of 46 activities focuses on initial and short vowel sounds.   Activities require the student to listen for and identify sounds at the beginning of words, blend consonant and short vowel sounds to identify words and segment individual sounds within words.

The activites allow students to respond using a switch or IntelliKeys keyboard in addition to a standard keyboard and mouse. IntelliKeys overlays are included on the CD.

This set of 36 activities focuses on ending and long vowels including digraphs ch, sh and th.  Activities require the student to listen for an identify specific sounds at the end of words, blend consonant and long vowel sounds to identify words and segment individual sounds within words.

The activites allow students to respond using a switch or IntelliKeys keyboard in addition to a standard keyboard and mouse. IntelliKeys overlays are included on the CD.