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


"As a tool for enhancing early Literacy skills in the classroom, Scally's World: Letters & Nouns has got to be one of the best packages around." - TEEM (full review below)

In this literacy title from our ‘Scally’ range, children help the alien explore the funny shapes, amazing sounds and wonderful words that letters start and make.

Scally's World: Letters & Nouns features 16 carefully-graded interactive activities, each of which ... Arrow Read full description of Scally's World: Letters & Nouns

* Early nouns/letters/blends * Pre-set profiles by Year
Available from £17.00


Scally's World: Verbs & Actions

English & Literacy

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"For those of you not teaching in the 80s, Podd was a blob who would try to do what a child typed into the computer. It was simple but effective, and Scally has taken this concept and flown with it. World of Verbs and Actions is a bulging package with CD-ROM, handbook, cross-curricular links, storybook, the music for Scallys catchy song, plus even flash cards. The end result is a beautiful program which children enjoy and which can be configured to easily meet their needs." TES Online


Develop early Literacy and ICT skills by sp... Arrow Read full description of Scally's World: Verbs & Actions

* Increase vocabulary * Develop spelling, mouse and keyboard skills
Available from £17.00


Sellardore Tales

English & Literacy

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"This is a new version of an old favourite. The simple text and colourful graphics, the fantasy adventure narrative and the computer game feel are all well suited to the target audience." TEEM (See the complete review below.)


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 unblock the Black River, rescuing the inhabitants of Se... Arrow Read full description of Sellardore Tales

* Spoken text for weak readers * No more reluctant readers!
Available from £17.00


Speaking for Myself PLUS

English & Literacy

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


"Speaking for Myself PLUS provides an excellent resource for the teaching of speaking and listening. It is hugely interactive and can be used independently or by a small group or whole class through the use of an interactive whiteboard." - TEEM (More in 'Reviews and Quotes' below)

Speaking and listening skills are fundamental to every child’s development, and those who lack a good grounding often find early formal education a real challenge... Arrow Read full description of Speaking for Myself PLUS

* Encourages speech and listening * Signing and PCS throughout
Available from £17.00


Stig of the Dump

English & Literacy

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"Whether you use Stig of the Dump as a huge comprehension exercise, a tool to encourage reading for meaning, the focus for integrated project work, or all three, this is one program which will encourage children to use skills the Curriculum does not encourage enough of: creative, lateral thinking." - EC&T (Educational Computing & Technology)


Clive King wrote Stig of the Dump way back, but it is still a popular novel in schools. This pack brings the story to life. Learners take the part of Barney in a "virtual environment" that contai... Arrow Read full description of Stig of the Dump

* Reading for information * Small-group work
Available from £17.00


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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"Many teachers are looking for Literacy ... activities that are challenging to all abilities, and textThing PLUS achieves this... Although it comes with many ready to use texts and activities for all age groups, it is essentially a content free program, allowing teachers to use their own... Virtually any text can be copied and pasted into the program very easily and then ... up to 9 different literacy activities can be created" - Victoria Crivelli, BDA (See full review in Reviews and Quotes below)

textThing PLUS build... Arrow Read full description of textThing PLUS

* Write or import text * Use across Curriculum
Available from £17.00


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 £12.75


WordMania 2 (ages 7-11)

English & Literacy

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"Today, at lunch, one of my raising achievement students brought his friend in to play on WordMania. They played against each other all lunchtime AND other students joined in when they saw how they could play against each other – this feature really IS motivating. - Simon Midgley, Rhyddings School

Immersed in an easy-to-use but suitably challenging maze-world, children revise English by answering WordMania questions on Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar and Comprehension to win points, clear maze obstacles and to outwit rivals. ... Arrow Read full description of WordMania 2 (ages 7-11)

* Revise English * Competitive play * High score tables
Available from £17.00


WordMania 3 (ages 11-14)

English & Literacy

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"'WordMania is a really useful program that will undoubtedly appeal to children and teachers alike. The competitive interest ... is attractive and the gameplay addictive - effective revision for what can be a rather dry curriculum area." - TEEM

WordMania 3 (ages 11-14) encourages pupils to practise Language skills while navigating mazes alone or in competition with friends on a school network or even via the Internet.

They win points by answering revision questions on Spelling, Punctuation, Grammar and Comprehension, Voca... Arrow Read full description of WordMania 3 (ages 11-14)

* Revise English and Literacy * Competitive play * Design your own mazes and write your own questions
Available from £17.00


Words & Music

Music

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Music writing software


"This product is quite simply fantastic. Full of ready to use activities and lessons it has got be the best educational software I have ever purchased." - Amazon Customer Review (more in 'Reviews and Quotes' below)

Most music software is, like sheet music, black and white, and you have to manipulate 'fiddly' traditional notation or sequence someone else's clips. And if you prefer to start with or add lyrics, you can't.

Now you can. Although you can work with notation if you wish, Words and M... Arrow Read full description of Words & Music

* Traditional notation and unique 'paper' interface * One, two or three-track compositions * Start with music then add lyrics, or do it the other way round!
Available from £17.00


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