CELIA Mac reading Listing

Files from TESOL's CALL-IS Macintosh Library. Questions may be
sent to Deborah.Healey@orst.edu.

Shareware programs are those where you pay the author if you find the program useful. Payment information is usually found when you start up the program. Freeware programs are freely copiable.

AIDS stack

aids.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 216
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Hypertext information about AIDS and HIV put together by Tulane University. They'd like wide distribution. HyperCard-based.

Alphabet & Numbers

esd-alpha-nos.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: literacy
Student age: any
Proficiency level: beg. literacy
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 2150
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with sound. This is has Numbers, Capital Letters, and lowercase letters stacks.

Dinosaurs

dinosaurs.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 208
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack about dinosaurs.

Express Yourself!

express-yourself.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 640
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack about the 1st Amendment to the US Constitution - freedoms of speech, press, assembly explained.

Frankenstein 1.0 + doc

frankenstein.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: hi int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 656
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with the text of Frankenstein. Hypertext, not graphical. Can be annotated.

I Ching

i-ching.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 40
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Computer version of I Ching; gives readings which can be discussed.

Immigrants + files

immigrants.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: multi-skill
Student age: 5th gr+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 760
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard simulation of life in the mid-1800s for Irish immigrants to the US.

Internet Tour

internet-tour4.0.2.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+, teacher
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 774
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: A hypertext explanation of navigating the Internet and using different Internet tools.

Islam + files

islamic-history.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 480
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with extensive information about Islam.

JFK

jfk.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading, ref
Student age: teacher,teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 527
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: This is a hypermedia stack with a QuickTime version of the Zapruder video. Lots of information for reading or discussion, as well.

Jabberwock

jabberwock.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary, reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 16
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: An explanation of the Lewis Carroll poem.

MacEnquirer 2.0

macenquirer.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: writing, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 16
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: This creates tabloid-newspaper-style headlines from a series of words. The teacher should give students a task to perform with the output.

MacTrivia

mactrivia.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 20
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Trivia quiz about the Mac. Authorable, so you can put in your own content.

Merz Poetry 3.1

merz-poetry.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: writing, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 127
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Creates random poems; these can be used for creative interpretation work.

NewReader Demo

nwrdrdemo1.04g.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: demo (reading/vocab)
Objectives/skills: reading, vocabulary
Student age: any
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware (demo)
Size uncompressed: 2050
Date listing updated: 03/27/97
Description: Demo version of a shareware program that offers timed and paced reading, sentence jumbles, and a variety of vocabulary exercises. The demo is a fully functional version of the program, but can only be used 25 times before it locks.

Periodic Table

periodic-table.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 58
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with information about elements.

Quotes & Quips

quotes-n-quips.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading, group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 24
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with quotes users can add to.

Random Sentence Generator

random-sentence-gen.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: group disc.
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 117
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Creates random sentences that can be used as inspiration for writing or grammatical analysis.

Reading the Classifieds

reading.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: language activity
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 5800
Date listing updated: 03/27/97
Description: This HyperCard stack by Joy Egbert offers practice in reading the classified ads as an interactive story, where answers to different questions branch you in different directions. Uses sound and engaging graphics.

Red Badge of Courage+doc

red-badge.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: stimulus-content
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: hi int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 437
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: HyperCard stack with the text of The Red Badge of Courage. Hypertext, not graphical. Can be annotated.

VocGen

vocgen.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: vocabulary
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: advanced
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 24
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: Creates random sentences that can be used as inspiration for writing or grammatical analysis.

Vocabulary Skills

vocabulary-skills.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: tutorial-language
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: teen+
Proficiency level: int-adv
Cost: Freeware
Size uncompressed: 96
Date listing updated: 08/17/95
Description: A how-to HyperCard stack with suggestions for strategies to use while reading.

Word Weaver

wrdwvr2.3.hqx
Language: English
Hardware: Mac
Celiadirectory: reading
Software type: word game
Objectives/skills: reading
Student age: any
Proficiency level: any
Cost: Shareware
Size uncompressed: 145
Date listing updated: 02/01/97
Description: Word Weaver 2.3 is a shareware HyperCard program. It will run on any Mac with a minimum of memory. Teachers type or import a paragraph of text, then the program will create four worksheets that can then be printed out for students: Sentence Halves - students match correct pairs; Jumbled Paragraph - students rearrange sentences into the right order; Jumbled Sentences - students rearrange the words to produce the correct sentence; and Cloze - students fill in the missing words. Send queries to: Bruce Laidlaw, 18 Perry Street, Marrickville, Australia 2204. Phone: +61-2-9569-2854 or fax: +61-2-9569-8940 Email: abestuds@pip.com.au or bruce.laidlaw@tafensw.edu.au http://pip.com.au/~abestuds


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