Educational Insights EI-2310 Language Tutor Instructions For Use Manual

Grades

Pre-K

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Ages

4

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EI-2310

Why Language Tutor ?

Language Tutor provides an interactive, audiovisual experience
that is appropriate for a wide range of students: struggling
students in general education classrooms and special needs
programs, ELL/ESL learners, and students who receive speech and
language intervention.

The system uses a multisensory, model-and-response strategy for
language acquisition. Students see the target words on the cards,

listen to them being spoken on the prerecorded Teacher track, and
repeat them as many times as needed, progressing independently

and at their own pace. When ready, students record themselves
speaking the words and compare their speech with the Teacher
track, building their skills and confidence in a systematic and
motivating way. Perfect for differentiated instruction, individual
students, and small groups, Language Tutor makes an excellent
guided or center activity.

What's on the Lesson Cards?

The 256 double-sided lesson cards (512 cards in all) in the Make­Your-Own card set are blank. Use them to create custom cards to
reinforce any content area. See below for some suggested uses.

Language Tutor reads each
card’s unique bar code and
speaks the target audio.

Add text to reinforce the target concept. Add pictures – drawings,
photographs, stamped art, pictures cut from magazines and catalogs,
even stickers – to illustrate.

Suggested Uses

Blank cards are customizable, enabling you to reinforce your
specific classroom curriculum. Here are some additional ideas:

• Academic vocabulary words and their definitions

• Synonyms and antonyms

• Weekly spelling list words

• Telling time

• Identifying money

• Math facts

• States and their capitals

• Historical events and their dates

• Historical figures and their accomplishments

Organizing Your Cards

As you build your card library, you may find it helpful to color code
the cards by skill. For example, all science cards might be color-coded
green in the card number area. You may further identify cards in a
set, such as vocabulary about plants, by coding them with a shape or
letters near the number. The Student Progress Record will help you
track your cards. Make additional copies as your library grows.

Before You Begin

Designate a space for your Language Tutor center. This space should
provide a distraction-free environment. We suggest that students
use headphones equipped with a boom microphone to eliminate
classroom noise and improve the quality of their recorded speech.
Language Tutor supports the type of headphones equipped with
two separate jacks.

Getting Started

Students should be comfortable using Language Tutor before they
begin working independently. Introduce the unit, pointing out
and demonstrating the function of the STUDENT, TEACHER, and
RECORD buttons. This guide includes a brief summary of the unit’s
operation. Refer to the Language Tutor guide included with the

unit for a more detailed explanation.

Monitoring Student Progress

Storing Student Work

Language Tutor enables you to store and evaluate the audio
recordings of up to three students at a time for each card. This
important feature enables multiple students to work on the same
skill. This is especially helpful when several students are having
difficulty with the same card. To review a student’s work, place the
lesson card on the unit, dial that student’s assigned number, and
press the STUDENT button. To review the work of another student
on the same lesson card, turn the STUDENT button dial to that
student’s assigned number, and press the STUDENT button.

The Student Progress Record

The Make-Your-Own card set enables you to
customize the learning tasks for your students.
The Student Progress Record in this guide
makes planning and monitoring progress
simple. Make a copy of the record for each
student. To assess a student’s knowledge of
the target concepts, administer a pretest. Set aside incorrectly
identified cards for further practice and posttest assessment.

IMPORTANT:

You may make copies of cards you create to share with others. Be
aware, however, that Language Tutor scans the bar codes on the
BACK SIDE of a card. This means that the bar code for the image on
the front of the card is actually the back of the card and vice versa. If
you reproduce your cards, be sure that your cards are two-sided and
have the correct bar code on the back for the image on the front.