These
enhancements make it easier for administrators and teachers to provide more
individualized classroom instruction, track student progress and achieve the
Reading First goal of 100 percent reading success., is a developer of
professional development courses, curriculum materials and software to support
basic skills development in people of all ages -- from pre-schoolers to
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They also can choose
from point-of-use, self-grading workbooks, Holt's exclusive voice recording
feature called Holt SoundBooth, a searchable grammar bank, an Electronic
Notebook, and a travel log Photo Tour for each featured location.
Teachers using Expresate! find that the copious interactive and multimedia
elements engage students in their learning and help them build better
communication skills. Holt offers an advanced
three-level Spanish program for heritage speakers and AP students called
Nuevas vistas.

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New User Interface and Management Tools Help Schools Provide Individualized
Reading Instruction and Track Student Progress

LINCOLN, Mass. All of Lexia's reading programs incorporate the tenets put forth in
Reading First, and by the National Reading Panel, regarding the importance of
explicit instruction and practice to mastery in phonemic awareness , phonics
skills, vocabulary, fluency and comprehension.
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"We are especially pleased with the visual and audio elements that give
students a chance to experience life in many Spanish-speaking countries. Teachers can generate and view student test reports by
standard and then diagnose student proficiency, assign intervention, and track
each student's improvement over time.

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Allyson Perron
Lexia Learning Systems, Inc. They can shift between tenses .

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Lexia Early Reading has been shown in controlled research studies to
significantly accelerate the acquisition of phonemic awareness: the most
important determinant of reading success.

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, Lexia Learning Systems, Inc." For more information, call 1-800-435-
3942 or visit the Web site at http: //www.com or
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0. "We hope that the new user
interface helps every four to six year old master phonemic awareness and
alphabet skills, and thereby read by grade three," said Jon Bower, CEO of
Lexia Learning Systems .

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There are new Web-based teaching materials and tools, including Holt
Online Assessment (HOA ), to give teachers a full suite of resources from
lesson planning to evaluation and supplementary instruction.

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Lexia Early Reading is currently available to schools through Lexia
representatives nationwide and directly to families on Lexia's Web site.
Lexia reading software has won numerous awards including the District
Administration "District Choice Award" in 1994, 1998 and 2003; the Association
of Educational Publishers "Distinguished Achievement Award"; and the National
Parenting Publications "Gold Award.

CONTACT:
Angela Giovanello
The Castle Group, Inc. The Web-based medium allows students to select over 40 hours of
visual and audio resources at the click of a button. They actually retain the
information. Booth 2136.

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Expresate! is available in Levels 1, 2 and 3 for high-school grades and
Levels 1A and 1B for middle school grades.

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AUSTIN, Texas, Holt, Rinehart and Winston today
announced the release of Expresate! Premier Online Edition, a Spanish program
for middle and high school, which offers new interactive and multi-sensory
learning activities for students."
The Expresate! Online Edition mirrors the approach of the print textbook
and addresses three modes of communication identified by the American Council
on the Teaching of Foreign Languages: presentational, interpretive, and
interpersonal.

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Lexia Learning Systems Announces Upgrade to Award-Winning Early Reading Software

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Grammar is also emphasized in a new way; in Expresate!, Spanish grammar is
presented and compared to English grammar rules to facilitate comprehension
giving students a stronger foundation for learning the language and its
structure. For further
information, please call 800-992-1627 or visit http://www.

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"I'm seeing the kids advance
by leaps and bounds. Emphasis on these modes of communication and on the national
foreign language standards helps students hone their language skills and
develop a greater grasp of the Spanish language and culture.

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"With the online edition of Expresate!, students can take an active role
in their learning and find point -of-use resources to reinforce classroom
instruction," said Lawrence Haley, vice president of world languages for Holt.com.

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Important new features include:

* Engaging, yet non-distracting , user interface to keep young children
learning
* Centralized administration of student data shared with other Lexia
programs that allows teachers to track progress during the school year,
and from year to year
* Onscreen flags and alerts in reports to identify struggling students and
alert teachers to their needs
* Reporting features that provide tools for analyzing data at the student,
teaching group and classroom levels
* Import and export feature that enables student data sharing with other
vendors' applications, providing unified data management
* Easier individualized instruction with complete teacher control over the
selection of program levels, activities and units for each student
* Spanish and English directions to support ESL learners
* Three security levels to provide students, teachers, administrators and
IT managers with access to the data and tasks they need while
protecting sensitive student information

Lexia Early Reading, designed for pre-readers ages four to six, develops
phonological awareness and letter-sound knowledge associated with reading
success. For
more information, visit http://www.lexialearning.harcourt.

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"By using the new reporting tools, teachers will now
be able to easily track their progress on a daily basis, identify struggling
students, and help them before they begin to fail.

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Lexia Early Reading meets the goals of the federal Reading First program
and the Individuals With Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) by providing
explicit practice in phonemic awareness and early phonics, and by providing
data to teachers to support individualized instruction and early intervention. The Harcourt
companies are Harcourt School Publishers; Holt , Rinehart and Winston; Harcourt
Achieve (including the Rigby, Steck-Vaughn, and Saxon imprints); Harcourt
Assessment; Classroom Connect; and Harcourt Trade Publishers.

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Using HOA,
teachers can assign pre-loaded tests or upload their own tests through the
One-Stop Planner with Test Generator (R), which then grades the tests
automatically. It is owned equally by Reed Elsevier PLC (NYSE: RUK ) and Reed
Elsevier NV (NYSE: ENL).

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"Expresate! is very communicative," said Erin Bethea, a
Spanish teacher at Revere High School in Ohio.com), which is a world-leading publisher and information
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Lexia Early
Reading now sports a new user interface to engage young children and a
centralized management and administrative system, enabling seamless
information sharing from class to class and grade to grade.

About Lexia
Lexia Learning Systems, headquartered in Lincoln, Mass . Today, Lexia's programs are used in more than 12,000 schools, adult
education centers, tutoring centers and correctional facilities, and in homes.com.

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Harcourt Education is part of Reed Elsevier Group plc.
(http://www.

NOTE TO EDITORS: See Holt at the National Educational Computing
Conference in Philadelphia, June 28-30.

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The Expresate! Online Edition is the Web-based edition of Expresate!
(C)2006, Holt's newest Spanish program that employs instructional and
multi-sensory learning techniques to connect students to Spanish-speaking
countries, their arts, culture, and people, while teaching them to converse in
Spanish.

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today
announced the upgrade of Lexia Early Reading(R) to Version 3.com. Instruction is more meaningful and
effective with the Expresate! Online Edition because students are actively
engaged in learning about Spanish culture while learning the language.

About Holt, Rinehart and Winston
Holt, Rinehart and Winston is a leading publisher of textbooks and
educational materials for grades six through 12 and is part of Harcourt
Education, a global education provider serving students and teachers in PreK
through grade 12, adult learners, and readers of all ages.

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