Exercises
Each day when your child logs in to play BrainSpark Learning Ages 10 & Up, some exercises will be "lit up" on the menu. Your child should play those exercises all the way through, which will take about 30 minutes.
We recommend that your child use BrainSpark Learning for 30 minutes a day, 5 days a week, for 12 - 16 weeks or until the product has been completed.
Your purchase of BrainSpark Learning Ages 10 & Up allows online access to the following exercises for up to four months:
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Space Racer
Help the Space Racer to race down the track faster and faster by correctly identifying a sequence of two sound sweeps.
Space Racer Skills:
Listening accuracy enhances your child’s ability to attend and respond to directions and class discussions; more easily remember questions, directions, and information; and more easily learn to read and enjoy reading.
Auditory sequencing helps your child comprehend and absorb information and develop a love of reading.
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Galaxy Goal
Our Galaxy soccer player needs your help to score goals. Identify when a new syllable interrupts a repeated syllable and see how many goals you can score.
Galaxy Goal Skills:
Phonological accuracy helps build knowledge of vocabulary and sentence structure, follow directions, and attend to class discussions, stories, and presentations – making school a much more engaging experience.
Phonological memory helps your child develop phonemic awareness, build knowledge of vocabulary and sentence structure, and follow directions.
Phonological fluency helps your child sound out words quickly and efficiently, enabling him to focus his cognitive resources on reading comprehension, thereby helping him to “get” what he is reading.
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Spin Master
Rock at the alien music club! The DJ is spinning the latest tunes and when you identify which disc is playing the target syllable the club begins to rock.
Spin Master Skills:
Sustained attention allows your child to apply all of his cognitive resources to a particular task, and to concentrate long enough to complete the task and give it his best performance.
Phonological memory helps your child develop phonemic awareness, build knowledge of vocabulary and sentence structure, and follow directions.
Phonological fluency helps your child sound out words quickly and efficiently, enabling him to focus his cognitive resources on reading comprehension, thereby helping him to “get” what he is reading.
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Lunar Tunes
Get the concert going and bring on the band by matching the syllable or word pairs associated with each music speaker. Maximize your bonus points by completing the matching game using the fewest clicks possible!
Lunar Tunes Skills:
Auditory word recognition helps your child to more easily attend and respond to directions and class discussions; more easily remember questions, directions, and information; and more easily learn to read or become a better reader.
Phonological memory helps your child develop phonemic awareness, build knowledge of vocabulary and sentence structure, and follow directions.
Phonological accuracy helps build knowledge of vocabulary and sentence structure, follow directions, and attend to class discussions, stories, and presentations – making school a much more engaging experience.
Phonological fluency helps your child sound out words quickly and efficiently, enabling him to focus his cognitive resources on reading comprehension, thereby helping him to “get” what he is reading.
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Star Pics
Challenge yourself to match the target word you hear with its corresponding picture as fast and accurately as you can.
Star Pics Skills:
Auditory word recognition helps your child to more easily attend and respond to directions and class discussions; more easily remember questions, directions, and information; and more easily learn to read or become a better reader.
Phonological accuracy helps build knowledge of vocabulary and sentence structure, follow directions, and attend to class discussions, stories, and presentations – making school a much more engaging experience.
Phonological fluency helps your child sound out words quickly and efficiently, enabling him to focus his cognitive resources on reading comprehension, thereby helping him to “get” what he is reading.
Building vocabulary knowledge exercises the skills necessary for learning new words and concepts.
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Stellar Stories
Listen attentively to each of the three stories and test the strength of your memory and recall ability on the activities that accompany them.
Stellar Stories Skills:
English language conventions are the elements of the English language, including proper word order, syntax, vocabulary, prefixes and suffixes, plurals, and subject-verb agreement. A solid understanding of English language conventions helps your child derive more meaning from what he hears in the classroom, and more easily master reading and writing skills.
Listening comprehension helps your child to focus on orally presented information, to derive meaning from a story and respond accurately to directions and questions.
Following directions is a complex skill your child needs to realize the benefit of an academic curriculum.
Building vocabulary knowledge exercises the skills necessary for learning new words and concepts.