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Internet curriculum service for grades K-8 providing access to teacher plans, discussion groups, on-line chats with authors, thematic guides. Includes an ESL/Spanish department. Articles, books, experts and resources are accessible. Areas include the Math Center and the Writing Center.
Learners practice classroom objects, colors, and class subjects, then try the SchoolDay Activity -- guessing whose locker is whose by interviewing six students and looking at the contents of the lockers. Students read and hear the responses of the students.
The kind of sentence transformation exercises found in the Cambridge FCE and CPE examinations. Each question has two levels of help -a simple hint and then a direct link to the relevant grammar topic in the on-line Grammar Guide. There is also AutoCorrection, which formats the student's input before processing it to avoid 'mistakes' due to forgetting to add a full stop or capitalise the first letter, etc. Comes with 100 pre-loaded questions with room to add many more. 5+ answers for each question. Very easy to use. A demo can be downloaded or the program ordered from the Internet at http://www.classicweb.com/usr/jseng/sean/ls_home.htm. The price includes a site license.
Video-based software program that combines interactive video (from Side by Side TV programs), audio, graphics, and text to provide students with exercises and activities. Includes lifeskills and civics exercises, as well. Two-levels; each CD-ROM sold separately.
In this city simulation, learners plan and manage a city through periods of growth, recession, and various natural disasters. Getting started takes a fair bit of time and teacher work to prepare students, even at advanced levels. Once learners know the basics, however, the activity is very engaging. This works best as a group activity since many different areas need simultaneous attention to avoid the city's financial collapse and/or physical destruction. Other variations include SimEarth, SimAnt, SimCity 2000, SimTown, and SimTower. SimTown is described below. A demo version is on the TESOL/CELIA CD-ROM.
A CD-ROM based simulation where students build and manage a small town. The program features animated graphics showing people in houses, buildings and around town. Students can even design the citizens of the town--the kinds of clothes they wear, where they eat, where they go each day etc. As the town grows it uses up water and produces garbage so teams of students need to negotiate how they will keep their town growing and healthy.
Children can listen to the story, reading along as the words are highlighted, write their own story, record themselves singing the theme song, and publish their own interpretations of the story. Material is in French, Spanish, or English. This requires a CD-ROM drive.
Formerly known as Triple Play Plus. Features speech recognition technology, which listens to and evaluates a spoken response in exercises. Extensive set of exercises and games to help students practice over 1000 words and phrases. Learners will need some help initially in interpreting the on-screen icons (not all icons are intuitive, especially cross-culturally). Runs under Windows 3.1 or higher from a CD-ROM.
Two components: author and player. Author lets you add text and link graphics, audio, and QuickTime video to create dictionaries, gloss vocabulary items, create quiz items, writing exercises, word webs, and crossword puzzles. One free copy of Player comes with each copy of Author. Additional copies of Player must be purchased separately. Player lets the student view the items created, including multimedia links. It adds timed and paced reading; flash cards for vocabulary items; a game for word recognition, spelling, and definitions; letter and word recognition with a typing drill; a hidden words game, and jumbled words, sentences, and paragraphs. The program requires System 7 or higher and 20MB of free hard drive space.
Software component of Visi-Pitch IV that uses standard sound cards rather than dedicated hardware. It includes eight modules dealing with pitch, frequency, intensity, and articulation, and offers spectral measurements, motor speech profiles, phonation, a waveform editor, and audio feedback tools. Graphically interesting games are also provided to make therapy tasks appealing to children. Models of speech must be input by the teacher/clinician.
Students can see pictures, hear a sentence with digitized speech, repeat for playback, and reconstruct the sentence. Exercises and activities are based on survival English settings useful for middle school through adult learners. Sound Sentences I and Sound Sentences II are sold separately. CD-ROM. Can be purchased as part of ESL/Basic Literacy package with Core Reading and ESL Renegades.
Sound-Write corrects spelling errors on the spot while simultaneously letting the pupil hear what he/she spelled. Includes a 50,000 word vocabulary, implicit help with homonyms, simple 'language experience' queries, and secret tracking of the user's nonstandard spelling. The DECTalk Speech engine from Fonix Corp is included. It provides a human voice that says words in real time, spells them aloud, and reads sentences after they're typed. Demo or full versions can be downloaded from the website. The previous version was called Spell-Well.
Programme of interactive study exercises and memory games/tests for the 44 sounds (phonemes) of English and the IPA (International Phonemic Alphabet) system, featuring high quality (black and white) graphics, and recorded and synthetic speech. The program can be downloaded from http://www.paddocks64.freeserve.co.uk/Pages/se-pronunciation.html
This includes a phonemic chart and quiz for learning the International Phonetic Alphabet. This would be useful for teachers and learners who need to clearn IPA in order to heck the pronunciation of words.
Requires CD-ROM drive. A program designed around space exploration, with photographs, illustrations, digital sound, and full-motion video.
Digital English Spanish dictionary including synonyms, verb conjugations and idiomatic expressions, and an interactive computer-aided translator (ICAT). SEER helps students develop and improve full English Spanish bilingualism.
Role-playing game with voice recognition. Fully-functional shareware program. The object of the game for students is to go through a house collecting money and fighting monsters. But instead of passively clicking on buttons to make their character act, students direct the action with their voices.
Also sold as Clear Speech Works by Royale Software, this pronunciation CD-ROM offers a variety of exercises for practice. Learners can select lessons by their native language or see all the lessons. Learners can listen, record, and review words, phrases, and sentences. There is a technical vocabulary component, so learners in different disciplines can practice field-specific vocabulary. The focus is more on sounds than on stress and intonation, though those lessons are also included. The Professional version offers the ability to add individual assessments (done by the clinician on the spot) and create individualized study plans.
Interactive displays of speech for speech dimensions such as pitch or for speech patterns in extended speech. Students can begin with simple sound awareness and advance through exercises that fine tune the control of multiple aspects of voice (pitch, loudness, voicing). From there, students go on to prepare for complex speech. From IBM; available through Edmark.
See Ultimate Speed Reader. This is now sold as part of Excel@High School and Excel@Middle School from SmartKidsSoftware, http://www.smartkidssoftware.com/ndkna69.htm.
Spell It Deluxe helps students learn basic spelling rules, master the spelling of thousands of commonly misspelled words, practice proofreading, and continually improve those skills. One of its unique feature is the availability of new word lists each month on the Davidson Internet site (www.davd.com), extending the value of the software by providing a fresh supply of spelling challenges. Upgrade of Spell It Plus. Teacher editions include 2 copies of the software plus teacher materials.
This Tetris-like game starts by showing a word, then drops letters from the top while the player moves them into the right spacing at the bottom. The word is written off to the side for reference. At higher levels, the reference word is no longer available. The higher levels also feature letters that you don't need and letters that are backwards, upside down, etc. Only a few levels are available in the free version; register to be able to add words and change the settings. Download from http://mn-software.freepage.de/Spell_It.htm
Over 15 games modules are supplied ; check the website for more. Includes trivia quizzes and word puzzles for a range of ability levels. Free to use; register and pay the fee for authoring capability. Download from http://www.familygames.com/share/spel.html
Spell Tutor is an easy to use and fun program for creating, practicing, storing and printing lists of spelling words. The student hears the word as recorded on the Mac by the teacher or other student and then must spell the word using correct case. When finished, the student sees his score and can opt to retake the whole test or just the missed words. The teacher, parent, or student enters a spelling list of up to 30 words of up to 16 letters each. The pronunciation of the word is entered at the same time using a Macintosh sound input device. (i.e. the plaintalk mic which comes with most Macs) Version 1.2 offers the option of allowing the computer to speak the word when the Apple Speech extension is present. Previously entered words can be easily edited. The list is stored and can be printed. Requires a Macintosh computer with a 68020 cpu or better, System 7.0 or better. A Macintosh sound input device (such as the small round mic that comes with some systems) or the Apple Speech Manager extension. At least 1 Meg of free RAM (2 Megs preferred) Headphones are useful in a lab situation. (Addis)
Multimedia drill with game elements. Teacher editions include 2 copies of the software plus teacher materials.
This program is adult- rather than child-oriented, so it's not game-like. Lists can be entered or downloaded from the website. The user can see, and hear the word (based on the user settings) and then type the answer. If the answer is wrong it will go back into the queue and be retried later. Statistics are kept to see improvement. Download from http://www.spellingmadesimple.com/
Create animated storybooks. CD-ROM.
Computer-adaptive reading test designed to assess the reading level of any student with at least a 100-word vocabulary.
The Steps program is for students who are linguistically more advanced than those who use the Jostens English Language Development program (ELD). It was developed in conjunction with Dade County Schools and the state of Florida. Each unit comes with black line masters and other materials and ideas. The units themselves are NOT meant to stand alone; i.e., they should be used without the other materials and off-computer learning. The Steps Intermediate program has the following units: 1) Who am I?; 2) Home and Family; 3) Healthy Living; 4) Food Time; 5) At Play; 6) At the Mall; 7) Community. The Steps Advanced program includes: 1) Communications; 2) The U.S.; 3) You and Your Environment; 4) Technology: New and Improved; 5) Careers and Contributions.
Now part of Classworks, a comprehensive classroom management tool. This component is an interactive reading program with 90 original stories written at 11 different reading levels. Each story includes comprehension questions and can be individualized to different students' needs. The program include a student management system to track student progress through the lessons. Multilingual audio capability so that students can hear a translation of the text in any of eight different languages.
Introduces young children to the English alphabet, counting, shapes, opposites and colors. Instructions for the six different activity options for each lesson objective can be in either English or Spanish. The lessons can be done either following computer prompts or in a more independent exploration mode. Available on disk or CD-ROM.
Teaches pre-reading and basic reading skills in both English and Spanish. Exercises include match the word, find the word, and build a sentence. Activities use colorful animation and digitized speech.
This is an extensive program that uses multi-cultural folktales as the basis for a whole language approach. The target audience is K-6, but older children and adults can also enjoy the stories. The CD-ROM has digitized speech and graphics that enhance the computer-based activities designed for classroom use and individualized study. Students can read as they listen to the folktales, work on vocabulary, and do writing tasks (with graphics from the story that they can color in, if they so desire). In addition, it has teacher-led activities using barcode-controlled videodiscs. Extensive teacher's manuals are provided. Installation is included with some network purchases. Price is approximately $6,000 - $12,000 depending upon the system configuration and the number of users.
This ESL program uses 8 well-known children's stories to teach English skills (narrated by British speakers). CD-ROM 1 has Goldilocks and the 3 Bears, Incy Wincy Spider, 3 Billy Goats Gruff and Humpty Dumpty. CD-ROM 2 has Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and Jill, Jack and the Beanstalk and Hickory Dickory Dock. A friendly dragon speaks 18 languages to guide the user in their native language. The user can even record their own story. The program tracks the progress of each user - earn enough points and print out your own certificate. Available in the US through World of Reading and other mail order vendors.
Whole-text deletion program. Now included in Wida's Authoring Suite. Windows 95, 98, 2000, NT supported.
Learners use the included picture cards to create a story that they can then tell to their classmates. Learners click on and drag the images they want to the desired location on the page. Students can also type in words. The Deluxe version reads words letter by letter, word by word, or by sentence and supports QuickTime movies. This graphical program will require a task set by the teacher for students to have much language learning benefit from using it. Runs on a CD-ROM under Windows or on the Mac.
A creative tool for kids to write and illustrate their own storybook. Students can choose from hundreds of images and scenery combinations, plus a variety of borders and type styles. They can also add sounds and music to their stories. Story Book Weaver Deluxe on CD offers more graphics and animation, spoken word narration, and both English and Spanish writing capabilities. The disk version is slightly less expensive. MECC titles are now sold by Learning Company School.
Recordings of spontaneous speech, practice exercises, and record-and-compare options in 10 units. The first 8 units primarily focus on sounds and suprasegmentals. Some pitch contours are used. A supplemental website is available at www.speechinaction.com. British English.
Practice in academic study skills. The eight units are reading, writing, speaking, listening, research, visuals, grammar and vocabulary. Each unit includes presentation and input activities and practice. See www.IELTSpractice.com for additional activities. The International English version has a range of accents and IELTS elements. The North American version includes only North American accents. Authoring and record-keeping functions are also available.
Includes various activities (including word searches, crosswords, flash card and jumbled words) to practice present lists (arranged by topic) as well as up to 100 lists entered by the teacher. Teachers can also edit all preset lists. After each set of words has been practiced, there is a spelling bee. Words to be spelled are either spoken or flashed on the screen.
This program helps users memorize vocabulary (or other memorizable items, such as spelling lists and irregular verb forms). It spaces repetitions of items in such a way as to maximize learning. ESL version available. Teachers can add their own databases of items for their students to learn. Runs under DOS or Windows.
Graphic print program in bilingual version lets learners switch between the two languages. Includes teaching guide. Prints cards, newsletters, banners, etc. in color or B&W. Two-way English-Spanish or bilingual/ESL.
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