Scally's World: Letters & Nouns

English & Literacy
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Everything children need to know about letters and nouns and the sounds they make


In this new addition to our ‘Scally’ family of titles, children help Scally explore the funny shapes, amazing sounds and wonderful words that letters start and make.

The Letters & Nouns software features Scally in 16 carefully graded interactive activities, each of which can use up to 140 words taken from the National Literacy Strategy and the First Words Checklist which is published by the Down Syndrome Educational Trust. Each word is cleverly illustr... Arrow Read full description of Scally's World: Letters & Nouns

* Early nouns/letters/blends * Pre-set profiles by Year
Available from £19.99
 


Scally's World: Verbs & Actions

English & Literacy
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Develop early Literacy and ICT skills by spelling verbs to see if Scally can do them


In Scally’s World: Verbs & Actions, our engaging alien Scally will ‘do’ just about anything a child could possibly want – so long as he or she can click on, type, or copy a verb.

The program can be used at five different levels, from simply watching Scally perform an action, through causing him (or her for those who have read the story included with the pack) to act out the verb, to spotting missing letters in verbs or typing a sequence of verbs to ... Arrow Read full description of Scally's World: Verbs & Actions

* Increase vocabulary * Mouse and keyboard skills
Available from £19.99
 


Sellardore Tales

English & Literacy
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Adventure software with a grown-up look but a reading age of 7-8 years.
Available on CD for Windows and for your VLE/Learning Platform!


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Sellardore Tales is a Literacy-based action adventure which pupils complete by giving a series of instructions e.g. GO NORTH and TAKE LAMP. In the strange and magical land of ‘Sellardore’, they must think their way through to the exciting conclusion where they unbl... Arrow Read full description of Sellardore Tales

* Spoken text for weak readers * No more reluctant readers!
Available from £19.99
 


Speaking for Myself PLUS

English & Literacy
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Early years software that develops communication, cognitive and reading skills.


Speaking and listening skills are fundamental to every child’s development and those who lack a good grounding find early formal education a real challenge. Speaking for Myself PLUS tackles this problem through tried-and-tested interactive tasks that also introduce children to using a computer.

Originally designed for children with Special Educational Needs, the first edition of Speaking for Myself quickly proved its worth in mainstream inclusive class... Arrow Read full description of Speaking for Myself PLUS

* Encourages speech and listening * Signing and PCS throughout
Available from £19.99
 


Stig of the Dump

English & Literacy
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An adventure that gets learners reading for meaning.
Available on CD for Windows and for your VLE/Learning Platform!


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Stig of the Dump brings Clive King’s story (of the same name) to life, putting the learner in Barney’s shoes in a ‘virtual environment’ that contains people, objects and locations from Barney’s house, Stig’s cave and Stig's Dump itself.

Using their knowledge of the first th... Arrow Read full description of Stig of the Dump

* Reading for information * Small-group work
Available from £19.99
 


Story Scaffolds Y6

English & Literacy
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Dramatically improve story-writing skills with this interactive CD-ROM.


Trialled in schools with outstanding success, Story-writing Scaffolds (Year 6) teaches children how to plan and write stories in a variety of different genres. It is extremely easy to use and will appeal to children of different ability and interest levels.

The Story-writing Scaffolds software features a specially designed, well thought out word processor which is easy to navigate. Resulting text can be imported into any other word processor the school may alre... Arrow Read full description of Story Scaffolds Y6

* Individual & small group work * Includes speech and on-screen help
Available from £29.99
 


Story Teller 7-12

English
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Story Teller is ideal for children who enjoy making up and telling stories - in any language


Story-telling is a great oral tradition that often gets overlooked, and Story Teller is a brilliant new software pack that can help bring it back. It's also great fun. It goes right to the heart of the creative process by encouraging children to make up stories ‘on the fly’ without having to worry about writing them down. There are no right or wrong answers, and no good or bad stories — just the great spoken ideas they come up with.

The proc... Arrow Read full description of Story Teller 7-12

* Individual & small group work * Records speech. * On-screen help available.
Available from £29.99
 


textThing PLUS

English & Literacy
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textThing PLUS builds activities for word, sentence and text level work quickly and with no fuss. It takes just three clicks to start any one of the nine activities, whether you choose one of the texts provided, your own Notepad, Word or web documents.

The suite of activities covers re-building text letter-by-letter and word-by-word, grammatical awareness, spelling, sentence construction, Cloze procedure and punctuation. You can even generate unlimited word searches and crossword puzzles based on the selected text!

More than 100 starter... Arrow Read full description of textThing PLUS

* Write or import text * Use across Curriculum
Available from £19.99
 


The DoIT Bumper Pack

Early Learning
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40 Numeracy, Literacy, Design and Problem-solving activities + 320 worksheets!


Encouraging co-operative work and imagination, the DoIT Bumper Pack consists of varied and enjoyable activities for developing Literacy, Numeracy, Design and Thinking skills. .

Practising anagrams, finding meanings, opposites and word parts, counting, sorting and working with number patterns are ideal for the Literacy and Numeracy hours.

Easy-to-use Design tasks include shape, reflection, rotation, Carroll diagrams, Pelmanism puzzles and card a... Arrow Read full description of The DoIT Bumper Pack

* Co-operative work * Problem-solving
Available from £14.99
 


WordMania 2 (ages 7-11)

English & Literacy
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Immersed in an easy-to-use but challenging maze-world, pupils answer questions on Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar and Comprehension to win points, clear maze obstacles and to outwit other players. Five multi-level Literacy puzzles (see screen images) are also waiting to be tackled.

Short-listed by BETT 2004 Awards judges for its ‘novel take on the use of technology, using an attractive games approach similar to games played at home’, WordMania presents a motivating setting for learning. In ‘multi-player’ mode (optional), pupils play against each ... Arrow Read full description of WordMania 2 (ages 7-11)

* Consolidate knowledge * Competitive play
Available from £19.99
 


WordMania 3 (ages 11-14)

English & Literacy
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WordMania 3 (ages 11-14) encourages pupils to practise their Language skills whilst navigating mazes, on their own, in competition with friends on a school network, or even with other schools via the Internet.

They win points by answering revision questions on Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar and Comprehension, Vocabulary and the Use of English, in order to get past maze obstacles and outwit other players who may unexpectedly get in their way.

With enough points to leave a maze, pupils can enter another, or win bonus points by tackling ... Arrow Read full description of WordMania 3 (ages 11-14)

* Test and revise skills * Competitive play
Available from £19.99
 


Words & Music

Music
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Music writing software


Until now, most music software has been black and white, and required budding musicians to manipulate fiddly notation or to sequence someone else's musical phrases. And if, like some pop stars, they preferred to start with lyrics, they couldn't.

Well now they can. Although learners can still edit notation on a stave if they wish, Words & Music also provides colourful 'paper strips' which they can slide up and down to change pitch, and stretch, shrink, split and join to make differen... Arrow Read full description of Words & Music

* Traditional notation and unique 'paper' interface * One, two or three-track compositions
Available from £19.99
 


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