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Spell Track
Teaches phonemic awareness, left-to-right tracking, word recognition, sequencing, segmenting, blending, & proofreading
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Spell Track
Grades Kindergarten-3, Inclusion
This second CD-ROM in the switch accessible
Track Series provides the highest quality spelling practice for students
on the path toward optimal reading development. Learners ranging
from the pre-school child to the dyslexic adult will appreciate
Spell Track's expertly designed, multi-sensory activities while they
work at their own pace on essential literacy skills such as:
phonemic awareness, left-to-right tracking, word recognition,
sequencing, segmenting, blending, and proofreading. Teachers can add
word lists and write sentences tailored for each learner, making
this a versatile tool for mainstream, inclusion, and special
education settings.
Students and teachers choose from a large, built-in bank of
word lists, or they may also customize the program by
creating their own word lists and sentences. In the main,
easy-to-use module, students read a word in bold type and
simultaneously listen to its pronunciation. They then click
on the appropriate letters in a line of other randomly
selected letters in order to "track" the word they just saw
and heard, one letter at a time. The clearly-spoken audio
recordings may be replayed as many times as necessary. Once
students have tracked a word, they reinforce the correct
spelling by typing the word which will complete a sentence
displayed on the screen. Finally, after working with five
words, students further practice their spelling skills by
listening to and then typing each word.
The "Test Yourself" module of Spell Track also encourages
active learning and helps students to reinforce their
growing mastery of high frequency and other key vocabulary
words. Resulting from years of classroom research, this
proven method of training will help with:
• Left to right scanning (to avoid omissions and reversals).
• Word recognition.
• Phonemic awareness.
• Segmenting.
• Sequencing.
• Blending.
• Spelling strategies such as the 'look, cover, type, check' technique.
• Visual discrimination.
Special features include:
• Full record-keeping capability.
• Comprehensive workbook to reinforce learning away from the computer.
• Teacher options to select or create word lists, set background and text colors, set difficulty level.
• Switch compatibility for special education usage.
• A Test Yourself feature gives immediate feedback on progress.
This program is ideal for "Reading First" programs, special
education, and inclusion classes. The Spell Track Workbook
is also sold separately as a perfect companion to the Spell
track CD-ROM. It is full of photocopiable extension
activities that use the same practical approach to improving
spelling.
Minimum system requirements:
Win 95+, P-133MHz, 32MB RAM, sound card
Mac OSX compatible
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