Skills Learned:

Of course, reading is the whole point behind Living Books, even for tots who haven't quite learned all their ABCs. That's why we have a narrator reading along, as the text to Arthur's Reading Race appears on screen. And since Living Books are both animated and interactive, chock-full of clickable surprises, there's a pretty good chance that your little one will happily sit through the whole thing.

Reading Vocabulary Spelling Sentence Construction Word Recognition Memory Skills Story Building Vowels & Consonants

Cossword Studio

Jump Start Study Helpers Spelling Bee
(Translations from English & Spanish)
"Import Your Own Words!"

How do you get your child to study for spelling tests? Make it into a game! With JumpStart Study Helpers your child simply enters his weekly spelling wordsinto the computer and starts playing.  With arcade-style activitiesplaying the games means your child is practicing the words and improving theirtest scores!

A child can play ten different spelling games using lists of words you input or any of the built-in lists of 1400 words (Grade Levels K-6). Word lists (up to 30 words each) can be printed and saved on disk for future use. The program has an excellent list editor for easy entry and modification of words and a file manager to keep track of saved lists.  One especially great feature is the program’s ability to use a microphone for you or your child to record the words to be played back during the games!

Word Zapper

Word Zapper helps students identify misspelled words and improve their own spelling. As words move along a conveyor belt, children use the lively word zapping machine to zap misspelled words and allow correctly spelled words to pass. Work continues until the player has made ten errors or has scored 1000 points (50 correct words). Then, errors are reviewed, and the player correctly types each of the words on which an error was made.

The long-awaited sequel to the Read, Write & Type Learning System,

Wordy Qwerty – Foundations for Reading and Writing Fluency, takes 7-9 year olds through the next steps of reading and writing fluency, and picks up where our award-winning software, the Read, Write & Type Learning System leaves off.

After successfully completing Read, Write & Type!, most 6-7 year olds are able to write any word they can say. But they may not spell them all correctly, because they need to know a bit more about spelling conventions and about how words are constructed in English. This is where Wordy Qwerty comes in. In 20 consecutive lessons, woven together with fun-to-play games and delightful songs that will stay in their heads (and an audio CD they can play in the car or on their audio CD player).