K12> FREEWARE - Alphabet. Spelling, Writing

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From: "EDTECH Editor-Eiffert" <edadmin5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tue, 25 Nov 2003 09:17:14 -0500
Subject: FREEWARE - Alphabet. Spelling, Writing
 
From: Fran Bott <baylady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Word Search Maker
Create your own word searches with this simple program. Print it out 
or try it within the program. Word searches can be saved to finish or 
open at another time. Includes an uninstall facility. Compressed file 
size - 710 KB.
http://www.adders.org/freeware/wsearch.html

Sentence Builder
There are a few sample sentence files included with the program and 
there is a facility to add your own. Basically the player chooses a 
sentence file from a drop down list. This file contains one or more 
sentences and the first of the list is displayed on screen broken up 
into words. The words are jumbled up and the player clicks on the 
words in order to make up that sentence. Other features of the program 
include audio instructions as well as the on screen text directions 
and an optional student statistic facility to keep track of how well a 
student is progressing. The edit/add sentence and student statistic 
facilities can be password protected.
http://www.adders.org/freeware/sentence.html
Note: There are many other free programs listed at Grey Olltwits site 
above, mainly for elementary ages. The site is well worth a look 
around. There is also information available  adbout ADD/ADHD.

Roxie's ABC Fish
Roxie's ABC Fish for Windows 95/98/NT offers an enjoyable 3D animated 
edutainment game (see links to screenshots below) in which children 
easily learn their ABCs and numbers.  This alphabet and number 
recognition instruction program is a painless and fun way for children 
to learn their upper and lower case letters and numbers to 100.
http://www.latticeworksw.com/roxabc.htm

Christina Word
Christina Word is an exceptional talking multimedia word processor 
that teaches chiildren word processing basics. Christina Word tells 
you what each button is for and says the letters you type. There is a 
multimedia talking tutorial. and a list of words for spelling practice 
displayed on the left. This list can be edited.  Kids get to load 
their own spelling words into the program and then can practice 
spelling them. Not only can they just learn how to spell they can 
learn the sound of each word because after they type a word a voice 
announces it. This program was the idea of my seven year old daughter 
Christina. The list was her idea also. She adds her spelling words to 
the list and practices them every week.
http://exp.tukids.tucows.com/win95nt/5-8/preview/25727.html

XWord -
Xword makes small crosswords. I wrote it for my five-year-old who was 
learning to write so the sample clues are pitched at that level. 
There's no reason you shouldn't add harder clues.
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/PeterBalch/PRB00043.htm

Word Web - The free thesaurus and dictionary for Windows
WordWeb is a free cut-down version of the WordWeb Pro. It includes a 
comprehensive English thesaurus and dictionary, and can be used to 
look up words from within most programs. The Pro version also has word 
finding, anagram, editing, vocabulary-building and customization 
features. Features of the free version include:
     Definitions and synonyms
      Proper nouns
      Related words
      New Pronunciations 142 000 root words
      117 000 synonym sets
      Look up words in almost any program

http://wordweb.info/free/


Websites-

Story Teller -
Write your own story and publish it online - Choose a topic (A Day in 
the Life of. Feelings, Kids Are Poets Too, My Book Review and more) 
and fill in the info about yourself, then write your story. You can 
also read story=ies written by other students.
http://www.edbydesign.com/storyteller/index.html
Print, word and math activities and learning resources available 
elsewhere on the site. http://www.edbydesign.com/kidsact.html

Page full of small free downloadable programs -
http://www.worldmac.de/Express-A-Z/expressclassicarchiveduca.htm

Alan Cooper's Homonyms
Main Page
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym.html
Homonym List
http://www.cooper.com/alan/homonym_list.html

Spelling and Vocabulary Activities
http://www.eduplace.com/rdg/hmsv/index.html


That's all for now...............Fran Bott......Kidtech, Inc.

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