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\nOur family had the opportunity to review the Complete Home Learning Suite<\/a> by Essential Skills Advantage<\/a>.\u00a0 We received a one year online\u00a0subscription for two students.<\/p>\n

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The Complete Home Learning Suite by Essential Skills Advantage has over 14,000 lessons available in Math (grades K-6),\u00a0Reading (grades\u00a0K-6), Language & Grammar (grades K-6), Science (grades K-3), and\u00a0Geography (grades 4-6).\u00a0 It is all\u00a0online and self paced.<\/p>\n

The classroom is nicely laid out.\u00a0 Every student is listed and there are three options to click on; Info, Marks, and Signin.\u00a0 Under Info you can change your students information, including changing the password.\u00a0 There is also the option to require a password.\u00a0 I like the option that ESA has given us to choose whether or not we want to require a password.\u00a0 Marks gives you an overview on how your students are doing, how much time they have spent on each area, and the last time they logged in.\u00a0 You will see how much of each unit has been completed and the average score of each section.\u00a0 You do have the option of tracking this information or not.\u00a0 ESA gives a breakdown of every individual page that the child works on, how many attempts have been make, and the total time.\u00a0 There is a icon for completion certificates and to create a report card.<\/p>\n

When the girls log in on their account they select the subject (math, reading, language & grammar, science or geography), then they choose the grade level (K-6, K-3, or 4-6 depending on the subject), and then\u00a0the student selects the program.\u00a0 I really liked that we could choose where to start off and which grade level we wanted to work in.\u00a0 In the upper left hand corner there are a set of buttons to allow easy switching between students, subjects, grades, and programs.<\/p>\n

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I let Sweet Pea and Peanut choose what they wanted to work on.\u00a0 Peanut requested math and reading activities and she thoroughly enjoyed the matching game and that was the most requested game.\u00a0 Sweet Pea explored all over in science, math, reading, and spelling.\u00a0 Once I logged them in they could work for the most part unassisted, even for the\u00a0one who is a non reader.\u00a0 There was one time when Sweet Pea answered the\u00a0question correct and brought it to my\u00a0attention that she was correct but it said she was wrong.\u00a0 I\u00a0reassured\u00a0her that I knew\u00a0she answered it correctly and\u00a0it was alright.\u00a0\u00a0The\u00a0answer being marked wrong\u00a0did affect her overall scoring.\u00a0 The directions for every activity are read to them and there is an instructions button if they need the directions read again.\u00a0 There are a variety of activities for every subject\u00a0and grade level\u00a0& the activities held the interest of my girls.\u00a0 This program is a supplementary program and the girls have learned a lot from using it!<\/p>\n

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The Complete Home Learning Suite is an affordable program.\u00a0 It is $7.99 a month for one student and an additional $0.99 per student per month.\u00a0 ESA does offer other plans including plans for up to 10 students, 6 month and yearly plans.<\/p>\n

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Please click on the banner below to read more reviews of the Complete Home Learning Suite by Essential Skills Advantage.<\/p>\n

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