Power-Glide Spanish Junior Adventure Course

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Summary: Power-Glide Junior Adventure
Review: My son is starting the Power-Glide Ultimate Adventure. He is in 5th grade. It has taken him 2 months to almost complete the hole program. He has enjoyed the Adventure with the two kids. This program is not for anyone who is older than 6th grade. This is one program that we can not turn off, so it has been worth it. He prefers this program over Rosetta Stone, but we will be using that program next year. We are using these programs for homeschool.

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Summary: Excellent language course for young children
Review: Power-Glide's Spanish language course for grades pre-k-4 is the perfect tool for teaching a second language at an early age. Parents don't need to know Spanish for this program to work. An audio guide leads the student who follows along is his colorable workbook. Level one provides a parent's guide, complete with transcript.

Spanish words are inserted a bit at a time into interesting stories, acclimating students to their meanings by explanation paired with in-context use. Students begin speaking with the first lesson and are able to tell a story completely in Spanish early on. Repetition reinforces new words and concepts in interactive lessons using stories, diglot weaves, scatter charts, puzzles, matching, and tests (levels 2 & 3). The audio characterizations are done well and the activities easy-to-understand.

A supplemental computer program complements lessons with additional games and exercises while the supplemental card pack teaches over 200 nouns in 22 categories and six languages. The colorful, sturdy cards come with an audio guide so parents don't need to guess at pronunciation. Power-Glide provides flash card games on their website for variety and more learning fun.

Levels two and three continue to reinforce concepts and build new skills so that by the time a student completes the course, he or she will have learned to communicate in Spanish with confidence.

Unlike traditional language courses that focus on spelling, writing, and grammar, Power-Glide truly accomplishes its goal of making students foreign language communicators. If this is what you want for you or your children, Power-Glide's foreign language courses are the ones to choose. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED