Read, Write & Type! Learning System Read, Write & Ty
Read, Write & Type! Learning System Description
With the Read, Write & Type! Learning System,
you can...
HELP a child learn to read! This 40-lesson adventure is
a powerful tool for 6-8 year olds just learning to read, for children of other
cultures learning to read and write in English, and for students of any age
who are struggling to become successful readers and writers.
TEACH important skills! Children learn phonics, reading,
spelling, writing, vocabulary, punctuation, and even keyboarding.
ACTIVATE multiple brain systems! Children see, hear, speak,
touch, move their fingers, and laugh with pleasure as they play each new level.
Research shows this is the most efficient and effective way to learn.
SEE impressive results in just fifteen minutes a day!
This simple yet revolutionary program teaches children to read while teaching
them to write! Visual and auditory help comes from the Talking Keyboard and
Helping Hands as children sound-out, spell, and read hundreds of words in
engaging animated games and stories.
Children learn to hear the individual sounds in
words, and associate each sound with a letter and a fingerstroke
on the keyboard.
Children use their eyes, ears, mouths, and fingers.
This multi-sensory and motor approach stimulates learning and
helps children who have different learning styles.
Children develop fluency by making thousands
of letter-sound (phonics) associations.
Children are engaged and motivated by the
colorful characters, games, animations, and music.
Children's progress is assessed and tracked by the program, which suggests activities to help them in problem areas.
Children get instant auditory and visual feedback to correct their errors.
Parents and teachers can customize the program
for different reading levels and proficiency targets.
Children think and practice phonics continually as they spell out meaningful words, sentences, and stories.
Children sound out, read, and write any word they
can say.
What the Home Edition Includes:
CD (1) - "Read, Write & Type"
55 sound games with more than 200 word pictures
118 typing challenges with more than 200 words and
phrases
40 animated stories with more
than 600 words
40 Power Fountain games with 3 difficulty levels and
1,000 words
84 writing samples from real
children around the world
CD (2) - "Spaceship Challenge"
9 Phoneme Awareness Challenges with more than 90 items
9 Reading Comprehension Challenges with more than
90 items
9 Spelling Challenges with more than 90 items
Reports of individual or class progress
40 printable RWT™ stories
120 clip art pictures and Read, Write & Type Learning System™
characters to illustrate original stories
PLUS:
Activity Book, on PDF file, with one lesson per page, and bonus
play activities to do with your child
18 Reading Books, on PDF file, that provide extra practice and fun
with reading stories
The Read, Write & Type Learning System™ Learning
System adventure takes place in a fantasy world inside the computer. A lively
gang of storytellers (Ann the Ant, Bud, the Banjo Cass the Cat, etc.) live in
two houses that look like the two halves of a keyboard. A mischievous computer
villain called Vexor tries to steal the letters and prevent the storytellers
from writing down their stories. Two Helping Hands, Lefty and Rightway, help
children foil Vexor through 40 exciting levels, building hundreds of animated
sentences and stories as they go. Children are rewarded with certificates of
advancement after every four letters.
Forty lessons that teach all sounds of English and how to sound-out, write and read English words. Easy sequential steps with help and instructions in other languages.
Read, Write & Type Learning Language video
Overview of the program Read, Write & Type. Examples of ESL students using the program and teachers opinions of the program.
Read, Write & Type helps an autistic student
Teachers from the El Oro Way Elementary School in Granada Hills, CA speak about their experience with Read, Write & Type and Wordy Qwerty
NOW AVAILABLE from Talking Fingers ... Wordy Qwerty - Foundations for Reading and Writing Fluency
Reading and Spelling Software for 2nd and 3rd Grade
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)
Wordy Qwerty Assessment Module
As part of its ongoing commitment to excellence, Talking Fingers has created the Wordy Qwerty Assessment module you'll see on the Wordy Qwerty CD. This module was specifically designed to be used by academic researchers who will or would like to measure the effectiveness of our software. After adding the module, we realized that it might be of use to teachers and parents, as well. So, here are instructions on how to use the module and how to export, print and read the data it collects.
Upon launching the Wordy Qwerty Assessment module (clicking on its icon), you can choose one of four options to check how well they have learned the spelling:
Pre-Test - You can choose to have students take a Pre-test of 22 spelling words before beginning Wordy Qwerty, so that you'll have a better measure of how much progress each child has made after he or she completes the program. If students score 100% on this pre-test, they probably would benefit from using a more advanced program.
Post-Test - You can administer the Post-test of matched words, after the child completes the program. These are 22 words from the program, using the spelling rules that have been presented.
Lesson Testing - You can choose to test a child on any of the 20 Wordy Qwerty lessons, by choosing the lesson number from the center pole on the main screen. They will spell ten words from the Pattern Activity of that lesson. This is a good way to see if they have absorbed the rule. If they do not score well, it might benefit them to play the lesson over, and learn the JingleSpell Song.
Student Data Report - You can export and save a report of all data collected on each student, as of the date the report is exported.
Options 1-3
To test a child or group of children using Options 1 through 3, launch the Wordy Qwerty Assessment module, click on an existing student (or type in a new student's name), click "Go," then choose the test you'd like to administer.
After the test is completed, a score will appear on the screen displaying the percent of correctly spelled words.
IMPORTANT: The test results for Options 1-3 are recorded in the student's data file and will become part of the report for Option 4, explained in greater detail below.
After a student completes the chosen test, click "Stop," then begin the process again, with either another test or another student. Continue in this manner until you are finished with the testing session.
Student Data Report (Option 4)
Every time a student logs in and works with Wordy Qwerty, data for that session is added to the student's data file. To save a report of all student data gathered to date, click on the Wordy Qwerty Assessment icon, wait a few seconds for the main screen to appear, sign in as "Teacher," click "Go," then click "OK" when the window pops up and asks "Would you like to export the data?". It will ask you to choose a place in which to store the report and will automatically name the report "WQReport.txt." After you select a location to which to save the report and either change the name of the file or leave it the default name, click "OK" and the file will be stored in that location.
The WQReport.txt file is a simple, tab-delimited text file that can be used in a variety of ways. The simplest thing to do is open the file in either Note Pad on the PC or Text Editor on the Mac. It can, however, be imported into either a text editor such as Word, or a spreadsheet program like Excel, or, on a PC, a text editor like MS Word. (see pictures below)
Table 1: Opened in a simple text editor.
If you open the report in a simple Text Editor, it will look like the picture above. The first row of data is: 1) name of the student, 2) current score, 3) current lesson, 4) current activity within the lesson.
All the data gathered on each student, to date, is displayed in the rows and columns following the first row of data on that student. The six columns of ongoing student data represent: 1) date of session; 2) type of activity (one of the 6 activities in each WQ lesson - or one of the preset assessment tests); 3) lesson number; 4) number of correct attempts/choices; 5) total number of attempts/choices for the session; and 6) amount of time spent in the activity, in seconds.
Below is an example of how you can open the WQReport.txt file in a spreadsheet program and format the data so that it is more understandable to a third party.
Table 2: Imported into Excel and formatted with Title info and an added 7th column which tabulates percentage correct.
The overall purpose of Wordy Qwerty: Foundations for Reading and Writing Fluency, is to improve phonological and morphological sensitivity, to develop a deeper understanding of how words are constructed in English, and to provide reading and writing activities with helpful feedback, in order to increase fluency and comprehension in reading and writing. Wordy Qwerty has 20 lessons, with six activities per lesson, that present the following foundations for fluency:
Some sounds can be represented in several different ways.
Most words follow about 20 easy spelling rules.
There are many word families, (words that sound the same, or rhyme). By changing the first letter(s), you can make hundreds of words.
Some words are "outlaws". They don't follow the rules. They must be recognized quickly and automatically.
Writing to dictation develops vocabulary, comprehension and fluency as well as spelling skills.
Reading (and filling in missing words) develops vocabulary, comprehension, and fluency skills.
20 LESSONS IN WORDY QWERTY (SPELLING RULES)
Silent E
Sounds of C
Sounds of G
J or DGE
W or WH
C or K
CK or K
CKS or X
CH or TCH
LL, SS, FF, ZZ
OI or OY
VE Word
Open Syllables
Double Consonants
Doubling rule
ER, IR, OR, UR, EAR
I Before E
Plurals: Add ES
Plurals: Y to IES
Plurals: F to VE
Product Title & Image
Publisher
Age Level
Requirements/Other
Read, Write &
Type Learning System
(International Edition: Includes "Read, Write & Type (Talking
Fingers Version),
"Spaceship Challenge"
(9 Phoneme Awareness Challenges), Printable
PDF files of Activity Pages & Reading Books)
6-8
WIN 95/98/NT/2000/XP
PwrMAC
OS7.5+ through OSX
Wordy Qwerty
2nd & 3rd Grade
Windows: 98, SE, 2000, XP
Mac: OS9 with CarbonLib or OSX
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).
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