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WriteToLearn: Pearson Assessments.


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Web-based subscription, $20 per student/school year (20-unit minimum order) This Web-based learning tool helps students develop writing and reading comprehension Reading comprehension can be defined as the level of understanding of a passage or text. For normal reading rates (around 200-220 words per minute) an acceptable level of comprehension is above 75%.  skills. Students can practice essay writing and summarization sum·ma·rize  
intr. & tr.v. sum·ma·rized, sum·ma·riz·ing, sum·ma·riz·es
To make a summary or make a summary of.



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 skills, and their efforts are measured by the company's Knowledge Analysis Technologies engine, which automatically evaluates the meaning of text by examining whole passages. Students receive immediate, specific feedback on their work, and teachers can monitor student efforts individually or as a class. Schools can purchase a trimester trimester /tri·mes·ter/ (-mes´ter) a period of three months.

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A period of three months.


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One of two divisions of 15 to 18 weeks each of an academic year.



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