| Grade Level | System Requirement | Product Number |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4-5 | Apple 128K | A291 |
| Travel agent positions are available at Vacation Nation Travel-and the kids in your class are the ideal candidates. As travel agents, they select the best vacations for their clients based on research using data cards, letters of recommendation, and descriptions. | ||
Introduction
The Scenario. Students work at the Vacation Nation Travel Agency. They decide which vacations to suggest for a customer. First, they find out about tourism, vacation planning, and the ten vacations that are available. Then they choose three vacations to recommend to their customer. Students are scored and, if successful, their names are placed on the Honor Agents list.
Reading Tasks. Students select fact-finding tasks first. Tasks include predicting the location of information, determining the text’s structure, finding the main idea, locating supporting facts, determining fact from opinion, and finding information.
Readings. More than forty readings are organized around the vacation theme. There are data cards, letters of recommendation, and descriptions for each of the ten vacations. Other readings cover different types of vacations, tourism, planning a vacation, and background information. Students look for readings where they think information is located by going directly to a reading or by browsing through a group of readings. They become strategic readers, gaining knowledge to help them select vacations.
Vacations and Documents. Students read about the ten vacations. Each vacation has a data card, a letter of recommendation, and a description. The information on each vacation is generated from hundreds of random data elements. These elements are placed in the data cards, letters, and descriptions. Some elements have point values for different vacation types.
The Program. Students can reread, select, and answer new reading tasks. They encounter new customers and select new vacations. With the Management Options, teachers can set the number and type of tasks, the vacation type to be used, and the group of vacations. Student records automatically save the game and build “reading portfolios.”
Designed to be integrated into the language-arts curriculum, the Vacation Nation Travel manual includes classroom suggestions, cooperative-learning lesson plans, introductory and closure activities, student handouts, more than fifty discussion questions, extended writing and reading activities, and 100 composition and research topics.
Manual
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