Read, Write & Type!™
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Read, Write & Type! presents a ground-breaking approach to early language education that reflects 10 years of classroom research. By using phonics to link reading with writing, this unique program teaches three essential skills-reading, writing, and typing-simultaneously.
Online Price: $73.49 $706.00
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An innovative program that integrates early reading, writing, and keyboarding Read, Write & Type! presents a ground-breaking approach to early language education that reflects 10 years of classroom research. By using phonics to link reading with writing, this unique program teaches three essential skills-reading, writing, and typing-simultaneously. Talking Hands provide spoken instruction and demonstrate each keystroke to help students learn the sounds of each letter and where each letter is located on the keyboard. As they progress through 40 adventure-filled lessons and activities, students quickly develop the phonics and typing skills they need to create their own words, sentences, and stories.
Features • 10 levels include 40 progressively challenging phoneme lessons, each with 4-8 activities • Each lesson includes Sound Games, Typing Challenges, Story Ideas, and Stories • Simple word processor/simulated email tool allows students to write and print their own stories and letters • Bilingual (English/Spanish) help option • Visual Map of Keyboard, with letters and sounds introduced by friendly characters, combines the sounds of phonics with correct finger placement • Clear, non-judgmental visual and auditory feedback • Printable score reports and certificates direct students to areas that need practice
Learning Opportunities • Sound out and write hundreds of letters and sounds, words, phrases, and stories • Develop phonemic awareness, phonics, blending, whole word, sentence, and punctuation skills • Provides extra practice with challenging lessons, and improves typing speed and accuracy • Combines the sounds of phonics with correct finger placement, so children easily learn to type the sounds they hear • Effective literacy builder for children learning English as a second language • Students move on to creating their own stories with their new found typing and phonics skills
Customer Reviews
"Read, Write, & Type! is an excellent example of the very best in computer
applications that provide support for children learning to read. The program not
only incorporates the most important principles of beginning reading
instruction, but has also brought them together in a package that is very
engaging for children."
-Joseph Torgesen, Ph.D.
Distiguished Research Professor of Psychology and Education
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Windows® System Requirements
• Win 95/98/Me/2000/XP
• 486/33MHz
• 8 MB RAM
• 1.4 MB available disk space
• 640x480, 256 colors SVGA
• 2X CD-ROM
• Win-compatible sound card
Macintosh® System Requirements
• Mac 7.5+, OS X
• 68030/25MHz
• 8 MB RAM
• 2 MB available disk space
• 13" monitor, 256 colors, 8-bit color
• 2X CD-ROM
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