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EDCON Publishing Group 30 Montauk Blvd Oakdale, NY 11769 Phone: (631)567-7227 Phone: (888)553-3266 Fax: (631)567-8745 www.edconpublishing.com

EDCON Publishing Group produces basic skills and intervention materials for grades K-12. Founded in 1971, the company specializes in reading comprehension, language arts and basic math skills.

Within the approximately 500 item product line are the well-known Bring the Classics to Life series, Easy Reading Shakespeare series, read-a-longs, writing, grammar, life skills, vocabulary and much more. Many programs have an added audio component that utilize audio-direction/reinforcement and include detailed teacher resource guides.

EDCON products qualify for and are often purchased with federal Title I, IDEA and Technology funds.

Bring the Classics to Life These high-interest read-a-longs have been adapted into 10 short chapters aimed at introducing students to great classic literature, while improving comprehension, vocabulary and fluency. Expertly paced narration provides sound effects to keep interest high, while students follow along, and then pause to work on activities at the end of each chapter. Each book: Includes 100 comprehension questions that test for main idea, critical thinking, inference, recalling details, and sequencing, Contains 60 vocabulary exercises in modified Cloze format, and defines and uses new vocabulary in context, prior to each chapter. Includes exciting illustrations in every chapter and answer keys at the back of each book. Reading levels were measured by the Fry Readability Scale and written using McGraw-Hill's Core Vocabulary. Each audio CD: Includes a word-for-word reading directly from the chapter pages in the book broken into 10 chapters with exciting sound effects. Workbooks and CD's can be used together or independently of each other.

All About Nouns All About Nouns simplifies the teaching of nouns by combining the many rules and related lessons about nouns usually scattered throughout language books and English Texts. Program includes a title card, suggestion for use card, a poem (3 cards), 29 activity cards, 5 answer key cards and printable student progress record cards, award certificate on a CD-ROM and two write-on/wipe-off card pockets.

Elementary Intervention Laboratory This individual and small group learning system contains 104 lessons with average working time of 20 minutes per lesson and includes 62 audio compact discs, 11 CD-ROMs with 400 printable Student Activity Worksheets, Student Workbooks for each program and Teacher’s Guides with Answer Keys.