Developed with experienced teachers, this disc provides the essential literacy and numeracy skills to help your child excel.

What does this disc teach?
Reading and Writing

alphabetical order
phonics and spelling
making words
word lists
writing words
building sentences
word usage
reading texts
Numbers and Shapes

reading and writing numbers
ordering numbers
place value
adding and subtracting
multiplying and dividing
simple co-ordinates
recognizing shapes
building shape patterns
The World Around You

time – clocks and calendars
ordering events
position, direction and movement
maps
sorting objects
nature and living things
NEW! 4 fun learning games

Ghost chase
Pairs
Create ‘n’ Paint
Beggar My Neighbour





Systems requirements OS X 10.4 or higher; Intel and PowerPC based machines
PowerPC G4 1.0 GHz or Intel Core 1.5 GHz
256 MB RAM
CD ROM drive
50 MB hard drive space
Mouse
Shockwave Player 11
Keyboard
Loudspeakers or headphones

This is step two of Dorling Kindersley's powerful curriculum-based learning system. Woody the pencil takes you on an incredible learning adventure involving:

Stimulating Activities
A huge variety of fun exercises
Screens that monitor progress
Developed with experienced teachers, this disc provides the essential literacy and numeracy skills to help your child excel.
What does this disc teach?
Reading & Writing

Alphabetical Order
Phonics & Spelling
Words Lists
Writing Words
Building Sentences
Word Usage
Reading Texts
Numbers & Shapes
Reading & Writing Numbers
Ordering Numbers
Place Value
Adding & Subtracting, Multiplying & Dividing
Simple Co-ordinates
Recognising Shapes
Building Shape Patterns
The World Around You
Time - Clocks & Calendars
Ordering Events
Position
Direction & Movement
Maps
Sorting Objects
Nature & Living Things
Learning Ladder Years 1 & 2 supports the following:
National Curriculum in England, Wales and Northern Ireland
Scottish 5-14 Curriculum Framework
Irish Primary Curriculum

Features
Learning Ladder Years 1 & 2: Supports Key Stage 1 and Year 3
Stimulating activities
A huge variety of fun exercises
Monitor progress
Essential literacy and numeracy skills
Supports the school curriculum
Learning Ladder Year 3: Follows Government Numeracy and Literacy initiatives
Provides a complete learning programme, across all the vital subjects - reading, writing, maths and the world around us
Children win stickers for correct answers, encouraged by a lively host, making the disc extremely motivating

This software develops key literacy and numeracy skills.
102 Games to help children write and calculate.

Ten great curriculum titles:
Flobot-ICT
Bucket and Spade-Maths
Money Mice-Maths
Where in the World is Barnaby Bear-Geog
Storycraft 1-Traditional Tales-Literacy
Millypedia-ICT
Teddy Bears Picnic-ICT
Magic Grandad-History
Science Express*2-Living Processes and Physical Processes

Product Features
BRAINtastic VALUE Bundle
Ages 5-7
5 tiles on one disk for Key Stage 1
Maths Key Stage ONE,Word Skills ONE,Reading Success ONE,TWO and THREE
Over 5,600 carefully sequenced learning activites
Fully correlated with the National Numeracy and Literacy strategies Key Stage 1

Maths ONE
Ages 5-7
Foundation - Key Stage 1
This title contains over 3,000 carefully sequenced learning activities that establish mathematical foundations and develops basic skills
The educational content includes numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, money, patterns and relationships, length, capacity, mass, time, shapes and solids, position, interpretation of tables and more!


Maths TWO
Ages 7-9
Key Stage 2 Part 1
This title contains over 2,400 carefully sequenced learning activities that establish core mathematical skills and understandings in emerging maths learners.
Includes numeration, calculation methods, fractions, decimals, relative quantities (ratios), patterns and relationships, length, perimeter, area, capacity, mass, time, position and direction, shapes and solids, timetables, charts and diagrams and more!


Maths THREE
Ages 9-11
Key Stage 2 Part 2
This title contains over 2,700 carefully sequenced learning activities that develop and expand mathematical knowledge and experience
Includes numeration, calculation, problem solving, decimals, fractions, percentages, converting metric units, perimeter, area, time, space & geometry, shapes and solids, chance, introducing statistics, pie charts, line graphs and more!


Maths FOUR
Ages 11 to 15+
Key Stage 3 & 4
This title contains over 2,700 carefully sequenced learning activities that broaden mathematical knowledge and develop flexible thinking and problem solving.
Includes integers, indices, order of operations, proportion calculations, measurements, surface area and volume, algebra and equations, angles, congruency, sequences, coordinate and circle geometry, probability, data and more!`

Product Features
BRAINtastic Mega Bundle containing Maths,Word Skills and Reading
13 titles on one disk for ages 5 to 15+
Fully correlated with National Numeracy and Literacy Strategies:Foundation to Key Stage 1,2 & 3 with bonus key stage 4 content
BRAINtastic Maths ONE,TWO,THREE and FOUR
Over 17,000 carefully sequenced learning activities
BRAINtastic Words Skills ONE,TWO and THREE
Over 3,200 activities that will build your child's grammar,punctuation and spelling skills
BRAINtastic Reading Success ONE,TWO,THREE,FOUR,FIVE and SIX
Over 2,900 carefully sequenced learning activities

Features
•Ages 5-7
•Over 1,100 age-appropriate learning activities
•Builds vital practical language skills with carefully guided introductions to letters, phonic groups, spelling and much more!
Educational Details
Over 3 years of educational content in carefully sequenced levels with categories covering:

•Letter tracking
•Letter matching, sorting and recognition
•Other preparatory skills for very young learners
•Spelling patterns (including phonics)
•Vocabulary development
•Elementary sentence-building, grammar and punctuation
Title Contains
•BRAINtastic! Central Control
•Word Skills Key Stage 1 Content Module
•Three Reward Games: BugWHACK!, Galactic Retrieval Squad and Extreme Fashion

Features
•Ages 5-7
•Establishes mathematical foundations and develops basic skills for young learners
•Over 3,000 age-appropriate learning activities
Content Summary
Introduces numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication and division, money, patterns and relationships, length, capacity, mass, time, shapes and solids, position, interpret tables and more!

Content Details
Over 2 years of educational content in 18 carefully-sequenced levels with categories covering:

•Numbers & The Number System: counting, reading and writing numbers, comparing and ordering numbers, ordinal numbers, place value and ordering, estimation and rounding, fractions
•Calculations: addition, subtraction, rapid recall of addition and subtraction facts, understanding multiplication, understanding division
•Solving Problems: reasoning about numbers or shapes, making decisions
•Measures: length, mass and capacity, time, 2D and 3D shape, patterns and symmetry, position, direction and movement
•Shape & Space: properties of 2D and 3D shapes, position and direction, movement and angle, line symmetry
•Handling Data: Organising and using data
Title Contains
•BRAINtastic! Central Control
•Three educational Content Modules: Maths Foundation, Maths Key Stage 1 Year 1 and Maths Key Stage 1 Year 2
•Reward Games: Samurai Sculpt, Hamster Hospital and Extreme Super Heroe

Introduces Phonemes with multiple grapheme options, grapheme-phoneme correspondences are developed and established, vocabulary extended and text activities continued. Comprehensive “Experiencing Text” activities are presented in CD2. Includes sound support.

Covers the majority of outcomes for the reading skills sections of the National Literacy Strategy for children aged 4 to 14+ and is fully correlated with the National Strategy for Literacy.

Builds essential reading skills with over 2800 carefully targeted activities across 6 CDs.

There is a CD that’s just right for each child - Emerging, Intermediate or Advanced!


•Reading Success uses a Synthetic Phonics and Text-based approach to reading that uniquely combines sight and integrated speech for maximum learning potential!


•The content is presented through a huge variety of question, problem solving and activity types with multiple choice, drag-and-drop, missing answers and more

Multi award winning.

Numbers Up! 2 Baggin' the Dragon features practical maths content, a fun game environment and a quirky twist in the tail! Pupils use basic number fact knowledge to explore the maths of shape, space & measure, algebra, graphs and handling data.

It's an effective and versatile software tool designed to help children develop mathematical thinking pathways necessary both in everyday life and in higher maths learning.

Baggin' the Dragon uses fun maths activities to give context and purpose to learning basic arithmetic. Leaving boring behind, it's the maths children love to do!

PLUS! The impressive multi-player option means the whole family can play at the same time, each at their own maths level!


•All content linked to UK National Numeracy Strategy teaching objectives.


•Elements of chance and strategy mean that anyone can win – not necessarily the best mathematician.


•Over 3000 questions formulated for all ages and learning styles, across a broad range of stimulating and essential maths topics.


•High level of integration between maths and language outcomes appeals to language-oriented learners and stimulates learners whose language skills are not so strong.

Multi-award winning interactive quest

Numbers Up! Volcanic Panic is all about learning, practising and using number facts in an exciting problem-solving game environment. Covers numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals & percentage and ratio.

Comprehensive and powerful curriculum-rich gameplay draws pupils into working and thinking mathematically with confidence and competence. PLUS! The impressive multi-player option means the whole family can play at the same time, each at their own maths level! Every player will find a level and style of maths questions to challenge and stimulate them.


•Suitable for: Ages 5 - 15 | Key Stages 1 - 3.


•Subject Area: Maths (Number & Calculations).


•Content: numeration, addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, fractions, decimals & percentage, ratio.

Multi-award winning interactive quest

The fast-paced space invaders game that drills number facts and tables from young to old! Get them...before they get you! Questions on Tables, Number Facts, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division, Squares and Square Roots, Fractions, Decimals, Percentages, Powers and Directed Numbers. Players develop automatic recall of essential maths facts by quickly and accurately repelling waves of descending questions!

•Suitable for: Ages 5 - 15, Key Stages 1 - 3


•Subject Area: Maths (Numeracy)


•Content: Practice tables, number facts & calculations.

Builds word power, spelling skills, grammar & punctuation know-how.

Build word power, spelling skills, grammar and punctuation knowhow with Words Rock! Literacy comes alive in this new compelling computer board game. Words Rock! covers ages 4-15 and beyond and can be used by up to 4 people of any age and stage at any one time. Each player is one of a bunch of street-smart Freak Seekers on the trail of the devious, invisible, slippery Super Slugs in this bounty-hunting free-for-all. Players use Slug-finding tricks and cool gadgets to outsmart the other Seekers.

•Suitable for: Ages 4 - 15 | Key Stages 1 - 3


•Subject Area: Writing Skills (Literacy


•Content: Spelling, Grammar, Punctuation, Vocabulary.

Product Features
Word lists include phonics, frequency, word-building, thematic – even word origins and homonyms
Flexible gameplay options cater to all ability levels
Addresses all spelling outcomes contained in the UK National Curriculum
Featuring 10,000+ word bank graded by experienced teachers
Each word has an example sentence, misspellings to watch out for plus clear voice recording

Typing Instructor for Kids 4

This award-winning typing program is educational, entertaining, and motivating. It will teach your kids all keyboarding basics, proper hand positions, and speed, and accuracy. Kids can learn in English and Spanish. Sit back, relax, and watch your kids get to the head of the class with this award-winning program, preferred by teachers and parents.
Creative Lessons and Exercises Help Kids Learn to Type

Learn to Type - Step-by-Step Typing Instruction is provided, including proper posture, finger position, and ergonomic features. Visual Guides show finger/key placement.

Lesson Plans - There are 10 customized lesson plans to teach kids of all ages to type, including:

•Learning the home row

•Home Row and Upper Row

•Home Row and Lower Row
•Ages 7-8
•Ages 9-10
•Games Plan
•Skill Building Plan
•Suggested Typing Plan (no games)
•Suggested Typing Plan
Learn in English and Spanish - There are 160 lessons, in English and Spanish. All lessons include:

•Structured Touch-Typing Content
•Proven Methods for Skill-Building
•Unique Drills & Interactive Exercises
•Age-Appropriate Content
•Graphic Guide Hands
•Standard & Split Keyboards
•Multi-Skill Levels



Typing Challenges and Tests Increase Speed and Accuracy

Typing Challenges - There are over 30 typing challenges. These include:

• Comprehensive Evaluation
•Timed Challenges
•Advanced Level Challenges
•Multi-Level Game Challenges
Typing Tests - There are hundreds of tests in Typing Instructor for Kids. Tests measure speed and accuracy, and results are provided for adjusted words per minute, based on both typing accuracy and speed.

Whatever your weekly word list, I Can Spell will come to your aid. A number of example wordlists are provided and you can make your own with the built-in editor.

When you create your wordlist you can break each word into analytic or synthetic phonic segments, syllables or mnemonic units. This is particularly useful in The Race and Scramble.

Six different activities will engage and motivate while instilling basic spelling patterns.

Balloons
For beginnings and endings from CVC to complex suffixes.

Scramble
Resequence letters – from cat to catastrophe.

Ladders
Collecting letters, avoiding perils. Motivate the most reluctant.

The Race
Look-Say-Cover-Write-Check in a fascinating format.

Magnet
Spot words within words – and pull them out with the magnet

Corrections
Work on those persistent errors with a leaping Fing.

Suitable for individual and whole class work. I Can Spell helps children learn by helping them stay on task.

The manual gives a full description of the capabilities of I Can Spell.

Supports the Microsoft SAPI Speech Engine.

All About Toys - is a visually stimulating and an extremely motivating title. It introduces pupils to a variety of new skills through its six menus and 15 interactive activities.
All on-screen text can be read aloud, making All About Toys suitable for use with early or non-readers.



Contents
Encourages discussion and develops scientific vocabulary
Develops visual and aural memory
Develops listening skills and aural discrimination
Stimulates thought and discussion and is a good source of secondary information

Product Features
Builds Essential Maths Skills on A Quest to Save Agrabah
18 different activities offer enormous variety of maths based challenges
3 skill levels for each activity allow the child's abilities to develop
Genie and lago are on hand to offer encouragement and helpful hints
Activities allow scope for parent participation and support
Printable certificates encourage and motivate kids to learn

It's a Fantastic Garden Adventure

Frankie loves to dig up the garden, and that's a fact. What Frankie doesn't realise is that by doing so, he disturbs the homes of the little creatures who share the garden with him. To teach him a lesson, the magical Queen Bee casts a spell on Frankie that shrinks him down to the size of a flea! Now, if only he can prove to the Queen Bee that he can respect his insect neighbours, she might return him to full size

Counting Money: Help the Miner Worm find the right combination to a locked door by working out the correct amount of money.


Geometry and Spatial Relations: Can you help Frank make sand castles by inserting the correct shapes into the empty spaces? Rotation and symmetry concepts are introduced as castle designs become more complex.

Subtraction: It's high flying fun on the back of a dragonfly! Play tag with other dragonflies by answering equations that involve subtraction.


Patterns and Sequencing: It's show time at the insect orchestra! Before the show can begin, the Spider Maestro needs your help. Identify the correct pattern or sequence to seat the spider guests in the proper order.
Features



• 10 skill building activities

• 5 sing and learn songs

• Over 30 skills taught

• Multiple difficulty levels

• Tutor Technology™

• Progress Report

• Printable Workbook

Parent Guide

Children are encouraged to learn:

• Addition and subtraction

• Basic geometry and spatial relationships

• Classifying and sorting

• Computer mouse skills

• How to count money

• Measuring

• Ordering and sequencing

• Shapes

• Telling the time

Description
Help CJ Save the Kingdom

CJ loves his job as Royal Fly Catcher of the castle, protecting the royal family from insects and other pesky creatures. But there's one particular rodent that CJ can't get rid of - the evil Duke Ratso. Ratso and his band have taken over the castle and imprisoned the royal family in a magic mirror.

Using a book of magic spells given to you by the Princess, help CJ disarm Ratso's traps by playing exciting games that build critical maths skills. The fate of the kingdom rests in your hands!

Subtraction Use your jousting lance to capture the numbered rings that complete the subtraction equation.

Fractions Help CJ unlock an ancient treasure chest by using your knowledge of fractions to make a new key and open the lock.

Geometry Help CJ and Edison replace the broken stained glass windows by filling the empty spaces with the correct geometric shapes.

Logic and Problem Solving Use your deductive reasoning skills to keep Ratso’s henchmen happy by serving them the items they request.

Features



• 13 skill building activities

• 5 sing and learn songs

• Over 30 skills taught

• Multiple difficulty levels

• Tutor Technology™

• Printable Workbook

• Progress Report

Parent Guide Children are encouraged to learn:

• Addition and subtraction

• Basic geometry

• Computer mouse skills

• Fractions

• Logic and problem solving

• Measuring

• Multiplication

• Shapes

• Subtraction

• Telling the time

A comprehensive software program for Year 2 covering reading, maths, geography and more.

Description
Frankie’s circus pals have been trapped in a magical jigsaw puzzle by the mischievous Mel the Magician and he needs your help! Play exciting carnival games that build critical reading skills and collect pieces of the jigsaw puzzle. Reassemble the puzzle and save the circus friends before Mel casts a spell on you!

Vowel Sounds - Differentiate between long and short vowel sounds by plucking the pearl out of the correct oyster shell.

Spelling - Build words by rolling the lettered coconuts down the aisles. Watch out for the Monkey – he loves to eat coconuts!

Word Order - The Badger at the Lost and Found doesn’t put up with any nonsense. Rearrange the words on your tickets until they form a sentence.

Reinforces Reading Skills Six toe-tapping sing-and-learn songs give children a chance to read along while they listen.


Features



Features include:

• 7 skill building activities

• 6 phonics practice activities

• Over 1,500 vocabulary words

• Multiple difficulty levels

• Tutor Technology™

• Progress Report

• Printable Workbook

Description
Learning is fun with CJ the frog!

Join CJ the Frog and Edison the Firefly as they embark on a worldwide adventure to find the ancient lost city of Ursulab. Climb mountains, explore dark caves and dig through layers of history as you learn and build critical reading skills for Year 2.

Vocabulary - Discover the words hidden in the puzzle maze. Hundreds of year two words await your every move!

Verb Tense - Solve the Sphinx’s riddles by selecting the flying carpet with the correct verb tense to complete a sentence.

Parts of Speech - Navigate your way through treacherous mazes in search of nouns, verbs, adjectives and even the elusive adverb.

Letter Combinations - Journey to the bottom of the sea to recover the lost vowels from the kingdom of Atlantis.


Features



Features include:

• 9 skill building activities

• Over 20 skills taught

• Multiple difficulty levels

• Tutor Technology™

• Progress Report

• Printable Workbook

fun-packed learning adventure in the amazing world of animals



Go on a World-Wide Safari!



From backyard beasts to Earth’s most exotic creature, Amazing Animals gives children an unparalleled introduction to the wonders of the animal world. Inspired by the popular TV and video series seen on the Disney Channel, this activity pack combines an interactive CD-ROM full of compelling activities, resources and games with two animal books, stickers and a ready-to-assemble mobile, plus a link to the Amazing Animals site on the World Wide Web.

Join Henry, a delightful 3D animated lizard, who will lead you through the wonderful world of the animal kingdom!
KEY FEATURES



· Fascinating facts for 120 animals

· 30 stunning video clips

· 10 unique games and activities

· Dozens of collectable stickers and rewards

· 40 create and print activities

· Downloadable sounds, maps, images and animal stationary



Benefits of this CD-ROM


· Helps develop reading skills and general knowledge of animals

· Learn about animal habits and behaviour

· Includes activities which develop early computer skills

· Supports the schools curriculum in Science

Team up with a determined band of Zoombinis as they bravely return to their ravaged homeland. The bloats have left the island after destroying the natural habitat, leaving the Zerbles and other wildlife struggling for survival. By completing maths and logic puzzles and exploring science, you can help restore Zoombini Isle to its original splendour and ensure the survival of the wild Zerbles!
Key Features:
7 Perilous puzzles
3 Levels of challenge
Practice mode – helpful puzzle clues
Puzzle reformulation – a new game each adventure!
Parent’s guide
Thinking Skills
Collecting data & data analysis
Graphing and mapping
Logical reasoning
Modular arithmetic
Pattern finding
Problem solving
Theory formulation and testing
Plus New Science Concepts
Astronomy
Mechanics
Cryptography
Ecology
Genetics
Life Cycles

Settled in their new homeland, Zoombinis are again enjoying peaceful, productive prosperity. Attacked by a severe storm, a small band of Zoombinis seeks refuge in a mountain cave. Instead of finding safety, the Zoombinis are trapped in a hazardous tunnel where mysterious creatures lurk! Each perilous puzzle you solve leads to another, more difficult challenge.
Key Features:
9 Perilous puzzles
3 Levels of challenge
Practice mode – helpful puzzle clues
Puzzle reformulation – a new game each adventure!
Parent’s guide
Thinking Skills:
Algebraic thinking
Data analysis
Graphing and mapping
Logical reasoning
Pattern finding
Problem solving
Statistical thinking
Theory formulation and testing
Plus:
Additional advanced concepts – Binary numbers, Binary computing, Networks, and Permutations!

A mind-bending adventure
Not along ago, the Zoombinis enjoyed the good life. Tragically, they misplace their trust in the diabolical Bloats, who take over Zoombini Isle. Lead the Zoombinis on a dangerous quest to a new utopia. Develop maths and logic skills on your expedition across puzzle packed terrain. Each perilous puzzle you solve leads to another, more difficult challenge. Each journey is a new game!

Key Fetaures:
12 Perilous puzzles
4 Levels of difficulty
Practice mode – helpful puzzle clues
Puzzle reformulation – a new game each adventure!
Parent’s guide
Maths Concepts:
Algebraic thinking
Data analysis
Graphing and mapping
Logical reasoning
Problem solving
Statistical thinking
Theory formulation
Plus More Fun:
Printable Activities including: Printable dominoes, Zoombini bingo, guessing games, logic activities and more!

Includes-Zoombinis Maths Journey, Mountain Rescue, Island Odyssey
Total of 28 Perilous puzzles
Various levels of difficulty
Parent's guide
Puzzle reformulation-a new game each adventure. Includes-Astronomy, Problem Solving, Algebraic Thinking and much more.

The weather has taken a wacky turn – its raining raingear! Soar up the Cloud Nine with Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion in their fabulous Dreamship to help them fix this crazy problem! Play activities in spelling, maths, art, vocabulary and science!
Key Features:
Eleven replayable fun and educational activities that teach:

Adding and Subtracting
Counting and Money
Reading comprehension
Spelling and Vocabulary
Developing phonics skills
Problem solving
Identifying animal traits and habitats
Art and Creativity
And much more!

The best way to master Year 2 Maths Skills. Help Sam the Lion and Reader Rabbit rebuild their boat on the mysterious and funny Pirate Island.

The most fun and engaging way to help your child excel at Maths
Take a magical journey through the fairy tale forest, where children’s favourite characters will guide them to various exercises that introduce fundamental maths skills, including counting, comparing, grouping, adding and subtracting numbers.
Encyclopædia Britannica’s Excelling at Maths will help children develop numeracy skills from the age of 3,
right through to 6 years old.
Parent Guide

Key Features
Supports Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 of the National Curriculum.
Contains over 3,500 words ranging in difficulty.
5 fun and interactive spelling games.
Features 10 difficulty levels.
Includes the UK government’s published Key Stage 3 wordlist.
Customise the word list* by adding your own words.
Monitor your child’s progress with help from the progress chart.
Access a variety of assistance settings that provide clues.
Parent guide provides detailed information on the program.
Encourages independent learning
Parent Guide
Children are encouraged to learn:
Common word
Hand-to-eye co-ordinatio Logical reasoning
IT skills
Memory recognition
Problem solving
Listening skills
Word-sound association
Reading skills

Key Features
Supports Key Stage 1 of the National Curriculum.
Supports Key Stage 1 of the National Curriculum.
Contains 2 CD-ROMs featuring sequential learning.
Over 120 hours of activities and step-by-step lessons.
Interactive games that practise letter formation and recognition.
Amusing poems that enrich your child’s vocabulary.
34 storybooks to practise reading aloud.
Entertaining video clips strengthen your child’s grasp of phonics.
Creative writing book.
3 separate libraries containing progressive reading books.
Record and listen to your child’s reading success.
Parent menu helps you follow your child’s progression.
Encourages independent learning.
The most fun and engaging way to help your child excel at Reading

Explore the Friendly Forest, where enchanting characters will guide children through a step-by-step
early literacy program. Watch as
they learn matching skills,
letter-sound recognition, vocabulary and writing concepts, before playing exciting, interactive games.
Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Excelling
at Reading will help children develop
reading skills from the age of 3, right
through to 6 years old.
Parent Guide
Children are encouraged to learn:
Phonetic awareness
Letter-sound recognition
Picture-word association
Word recognition
Vocabulary
Matching skills
Letter formation
Contextual understanding
Stories and poems
Visual discrimination
Writing skills

Practice Reading, Maths, and Science.
Software supports the national curriculum.

Packed with the vocabulary definitions recommended by the National Numeracy Framework for Years 3 to 6. This dictionary is simple to use yet has rigorous definitions with clear examples, covering common mistakes and misconceptions. The clear colourful, spacious design is laid out in a easy to follow way to better help the understanding of mathematics.

Visit the Phonic Factory, where children are encouraged to use a selection of machines to assist with the learning of phonic skills, reading, spelling and sentence building.

This program supports the Literacy Hour and is divided into sections with bright and colourful interactive screens, where the child is motivated to construct words using the wide vocabulary included, for teaching phonics, as well as completing simple sentences.

Ideal for Key Stages 1 and 2, spoken instructions are included throughout making this software suitable for unsupervised use. The activities used can be fully customised, allowing the teacher to easily build sets of words suitable for an individual child or class.

Key features:
Fun games, with bright and colourful screens.
Help with spelling, phonic skills & simple sentence building.
Create your own word lists to help spelling.
Great for independent use.

Features & Benefits
Add a little magic to your numeracy lessons with 123 CD V2, a fully updated version of the best-selling original.
Each of the 10 focused activities are fully narrated and, with Wizit the friendly wizard on hand to help, all your pupils will be able to confidently explore the complexities of counting and other essential early number skills. Also included in this program is the exciting new Teacher’s Toolkit, a powerful tool designed to allow you to use this software for whole-class teaching on a whiteboard or large screen.



Contents
Teacher’s Toolkit designed for interactive whiteboard use
Inclusion and Support features
Comprehensive Teacher Options
Record Keeping
12 activities

Children can practice and develop their multiplication skills with the help of Kelly and Robbie (the Paws Explore cat and dog characters) and a selection of fun activities. Presenting the topic of multiplication in several different ways, the title uses the relevant vocabulary to enable the player to test their general multiplication skills, rapid recall of multiplication facts and begin to understand the relationship between multiplication and addition/division.

Pupils progress is rigorously tracked throughout for the teacher to produce detailed reports and an extensive selection of interactive whiteboard screens are designed for class-teaching. This title includes a fully-configurable teacher’s section and printable worksheets for use away from the computer.

Key features:
Each activity features three levels of difficulty to test the player.
Develops the use of mathematical vocabulary used in schools.
Fully narrated throughout for unsupervised use.
Engaging activities presented by the two Paws characters – Kelly and Robbie.
Covers the topics of: Multiplication, relationships between multiplication, division & addition and the rapid recall of multiplication facts.

Paws Explore: Numbers is a title specially designed to help children practice and develop their number skills, through a range of fun activities.

With 3 levels of difficulty and two friendly cat and dog characters, children can practice counting, counting on and counting back. There are also activities that focus on rounding, estimating, place value and number sequences.

This title includes an extensive teacher’s section and resources for use on an interactive whiteboard. For use away from the computer a selection of printable worksheets are provided and the software automatically records pupils’ progress.

Key features:
Certificate printing option and exciting animations.
Three levels of difficulty for younger and older children.
Fun games featuring the cat and dog characters – Kelly and Robbie.
Covers the topics of counting, number sequences, rounding, estimating and place value.

Join the Paws Explore duo (a friendly cat and dog) in a selection of fun activities that help children to develop and practice the topic of fractions.

The narrated activities with 3 levels of difficulty create a fun environment for the player to practice recognising and identifying fractions of objects & numbers and matching fractions with pictures. They can also practice matching equivalent fractions and creating fractions by dividing objects.

Supplied with printable worksheets for use away from the computer, the title also includes resources for use on an interactive whiteboard. Furthermore, the extensive teacher’s section also includes the facility to record and view pupils’ progress.

Key features:
Certificate printing facility included.
Three levels to use as children progress.
Positive rewards and animations used throughout.
Fun and easy to use, with full narration.
Includes games based on identifying, matching and equivalent fractions

Paws Explore: Money is a title specially designed to help children practice and develop their money recognition skills, through a range of fun activities.

With 3 levels of difficulty and two friendly cat and dog characters, children can practice swapping coins and notes for smaller amounts, calculating change and formatting currency.

This title includes an extensive teacher’s section and resources for use on an interactive whiteboard. For use away from the computer a selection of printable worksheets are provided and the software automatically records pupils’ progress.

Paws Explore: Money also allows you to choose between 5 different currencies: British Pounds, Euros, or US, Australian or Canadian dollars.

Key features:
Currencies included: British pounds, Euros, Australian, Canadian and American Dollars.
Entertaining animations with Kelly and Robbie.
Develop essential money handling skills.
Six enjoyable games

This exciting title in the Paws Explore series covers the themes of ‘Using electricity’, ‘Circuits and conductors’ and ‘Light and shadows’ with a selection of fun activities.

With the help of Kelly and Robbie (the two Paws Explore characters), children can enjoy creating simple electric circuits, exploring the conductivity of different materials, understanding different ways of changing a bulb’s brightness and using switches.

The product also explores shadows and how shadows created by the sun can change throughout the day.

An interactive whiteboard section, with a wealth of pre-designed screens encourages class learning, along with a wide selection of printable worksheets.

Player’s progress can be recorded in the extensive teacher’s section, whilst the title is fully narrated and suitable for unsupervised use.

Key features:
Part of the Paws Explore range of titles.
Designed for age range 6-8 years and great for unsupervised home use.
Exciting graphics and fun animations in each game.
Learn about shadows and how they are created.
Investigate electricity, simple circuits and conductivity

Introduce double vowel sounds with these magnetic strips. Each magnet is double-sided with templates, outlines and illustrated clues to help support acquisition. 33 in total.

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These CVCC and CCVC magnets introduce consonant digraphs to consonants and vowels for spelling and word building. Double sided with both templates and outlines to support spelling acquisition, set includes 33 magnetic word strips in total

Description: CVC Word Builder is an interactive game that teaches knowlege of word and spelling patterns in consonant-vowel-consonant words. It can be played against the computer or by up to 3 players. Words are made by deleting a consonant or a vowel from a player's board and replacing it with a tile from the virtual table. The player who makes the most words wins! An excellent way to encourage strategic thinking and to develop the key operations of phonemic awareness (matching, isolating, substitution, segmentation and deletion) in children aged 5 and up. This inclusive resource comes complete with a voice feature that enables words to be read out for students requiring extra support. Access the teacher options by pressing Ctrl+t on a PC or apple+t on a Mac. Here, you can choose between UK or US audio, Sassoon or Comic Sans font or the number of words to be made per game. There is also a tracking facility to monitor your students' progress.

Badger Trails encourages the use of critical thinking skills whilst engrossing the child in an exciting multimedia experience. The introductory Talking Story concludes with a lost, hungry and frightened badger. The adventure immerses children into the badger's struggle as it tries to find its way home.

The Crystal Rain Forest is an exciting multimedia adventure, which features full narration, stunning graphics and helps develop mathematical problem solving skills. Each activity is available at two levels of difficulty.

Contains two complete adventures full of delightful graphics, animations, sound effects and gentle humour that will enthral all infants. Each adventure contains four mathematical activities, available at two difficulty levels.
Key Features
Ordering and comparing
• Sorting and sequencing
• Telling the time in context
• Logical problem solving
• Position direction and movement
• Length estimation
• Addition to 10
• More than and less than

Features & Benefits
Packed with over 3000 interesting facts and 700 graphics, colour photographs and slideshows, Millypedia is a bright, exciting and accessible multimedia information source for young children. The encyclopedia is carefully structured to develop early referencing skills.
A comprehensive search function is supported by the facility to copy text and images to create their own work, whilst narration and a simple glossary give support to early readers in their search for knowledge.

A full set of 24 topic related quizzes is available encouraging the children to explore the encyclopedia in search of information.



Contents
24 popular topics
Fully narrated
Over 3,000 useful facts
Bright graphics, photographs and colour slideshows
All graphics available as clip art

Each of the six money related activities included in this program is designed to help children to practise coin recognition and develop the concepts of spending, buying, selling, earning and saving money. The activities can be used separately, to support specific lesson objectives, or they can be tackled as one complete adventure.
Individuals, or small groups, working at different levels, can consolidate practical classroom experiences with money. Suitable for use with an interactive whiteboard.

Explore the world and all its wonders! An ideal first atlas to introduce young readers to maps and geography. The maps and illustrations are packed with fascinating details and quiz questions will encourage pupils to find capital cities, famous landmarks, longest rives and highest mountains. Hbk. 44pg.

Description: Set of 8 grips (3 different varieties) for ensuring an efficient, comfortable hold.

A complete multimedia creativity studio, all introduced by Mia the charming mouse. The CD features five sections: drawing, projects, painting, shapes and a multimedia section. You can learn to paint and draw, step by step and make cool drawings of animals and robots! Make your own greeting cards, posters and more - with over 100 samples. Build fun characters and imaginative landscapes using geometric forms. Then get everyone dancing by creating your own unique animated scene with some favourite characters!

Letts National Tests Practice Folders provide all the practice necessary for total success in the National Tests, with brand new questions reflecting the latest curriculum changes.

The series is authored by examiners and teachers with proven records of helping children to achieve top grades. The question and answer format is similar to the real National Tests allowing children to build confidence and practise exam techniques prior to sitting for their real tests.
The National Test Practice Papers series:

Gives children essential practice for SAT success
Builds childrens' confidence by previewing the test format
Predicts a child’s National Curriculum level
Allows practice in exam techniques and conditions
Highlights problem areas for revision
Provides a detailed marking scheme
Includes material for gifted children.

Big clear buttons and no words (not even in the menus) make this art program very easy to use for young users. Pop-up picture menus introduce transferable skills, which will support them in all computer-based work. For those who do need language support, optional rollover hints can be spoken and/or printed on screen. Six optional pre-sets can be configured to aid differentiation and progression. Every tool is optional with simple teacher configuration - just click to turn tools on and off.

Features & Benefits
Don’t sound it, say it! Despite the benefits of phonics, there are a significant number of words that are best learned through sight recognition.
The second in a series of two CD-ROMs, Say Cheese! Infants has been designed to do just that! Based around five structured activities using wordlists featuring all of the Year 1 and Year 2 keywords from the National Literacy Strategy, this program will help infants to quickly develop the range of words they recognise on-sight. The clear pronunciation, careful presentation, and switch/spacebar access all ensure that everyone can learn, have fun and say cheese!



Contents
Covers the Year 1 and Year 2 keyword lists
5 different activities
Supports inclusion
Switch accessible
Compatible with interactive whiteboard

FacePaint 2 allows children to build up hundreds of different faces sequentially, by making choices from a huge bank of features.

Description: The Super Star Series makes beginning reading fun and easy with its combination of instruction, songs, words and games. Instruction - Concise instructional presentations, with visuals that make the letters, sounds and words come alive. Sing-a-long Songs - These lively and fun songs make phonics concepts easy to remember. Learn the Words - This section allows the student to see and hear how the words that were introduced in the songs are formed by using pictures, the word sound and phonemic sounds. Activities/Games - The student is challenged with fun and exciting games to identify letter patterns in words and to earn a silver or gold star on each activity/game. Final Review - The Review games challenge the students to use all of their knowledge. Teacher Features A Teachers section includes the following: a) An explanation of the Super Star System b) Print pages for the words to all the songs c) Print pages for all the activities.

You’ve met the a-z characters, now let’s see what happens when they come together to make a new sound in a word. This great new edition introduces 21 popular digraphs in full colour scenes. The story logic for each new sound is given and children are encouraged to search the scenes looking for the target sound in initial, medial and final positions in words. Phonemic awareness and vocabulary development has never been so much fun!

Reviews

'Allegedly the first maths dictionary for five- to seven-year olds it contains over 300 mathematical words, all explained in text and illustrated pictorially - everything from 'add' to 'zero'. It's definitely a friendly way to look at simple mathematical words and concepts, and should give the idea that maths can be fun' - Oxford Times


Description

Supports and develops mathematical language and understanding
Links to National Numeracy Framework at Reception, Y1 and Y2.
Sales of previous edition 15,000 copies

Oxford First Maths Dictionary introduces key mathematical words and ideas - now with new cover in current Oxford branding.
It contains:

·300 mathematical words simply and clearly explained with definition or example of use

·Each entry is illustrated with artwork or diagrams to help make meanings clear

·Illustrated section at the back giving words children will use in maths lessons - from time words to classroom equipment


Readership: Age 5-7 years

Description

The most up-to-date first science dictionary available for 5-7 year olds today
Trialled and tested in schools
Sturdy sewn binding
Meets National Literacy requirements for Reception, Y1 and Y2 and Scotland P1-P3

·Over 200 scientific words in alphabetical order, each with a simple meaning or example of use

·Every entry illustrated with contemporary artwork and clear diagrams

·Illustrated thematic section at the back with extra words ranging from classroom equipment to measurements

·Headwords support and develop scientific language and understanding

Graham Peacock is an experienced teacher, a well-published author of primary science texts and an Inset Co-ordinator for Primary Science

Readership: Age 5-7 years

144 pages in full colour305*240mm

The Oxford First Encyclopedia is packed with information, and is friendly and easy to use. Arranged in eight thematic sections for ease of access, the varied presentation of both text and illustrations carefully reflects the interests and abilities of young children.
The bright and entertaining illustrations draw the child into the page, and their attention is engaged by the lively and direct text, fun fact boxes, and many activity panels, including simple experiments and projects. Cross-referencing and index provide easy access while helping to develop children`s referencing skills.

Key features
• The leading first encyclopedia, now fully revised and updated
• Accessible and fun, with information carefully gauged to the abilities of young children
• Accuracy and authority assured by extensive testing and expert consultation
• Friendly cross-referencing and accessible index help develop research skills
• Bright and engaging design, with over 400 full-colour illustrations
• Simple and fun experiments and projects encourage children to discover for themselves

Counting Pictures 3 is a simple introduction to producing graphs on a computer. The configurable CD-ROM provides a large library of user-friendly pictures with which pupils can produce pictograms. The program is supplied with a large number of curriculum related starter topics such as favourite colours, eye colour, and how we travel to school.

The program directly supports the QCA ICT Unit 1E, ‘Representing information graphically’.

This tool features:

A choice of formats such as tally chart, table, pictogram, block graph or bar chart
Numerical ordering of data option
Flexibility for graphs can be sent to Writer 2 so pupils can write about their findings
Choice of questions and over 10 curriculum related starter topics
Three fully configurable built-in levels.
Curriculum Match
QCA ICT Unit 1E, Key Stage 1 and Lower Key Stage 2, Levels A-B of the Scottish 5-14 Curriculum

Description: An excellent, interactive numeracy game that teaches the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division.
It is suitable for single player use (against the computer) or up to 4 students (who play against each other). Players score by forming equations and whoever gains the highest score wins. The difficulty level can be adjusted when playing against the computer.

This software teaches mental arithmetic of the four operations, as well as the comparison of simple equations. Children can also listen to the equations simply by hovering over them with their mouse. Comes with teacher’s session for tracking children’s progress or for changing game features such as accent and font.

Excellent for all children aged 5 and up.

Features & Benefits
The Naughty Phonics is a brand new series of CD-ROMs, each containing three interactive activities designed to help young children to develop their phonological awareness of medial short vowel sounds. Each Naughty Phonics activity focuses on a different aspect of phonological awareness, such as recognising common spellings for each phoneme and blending phonemes into words for reading. Including delightful reward animations, this program makes first phonics engaging and fun.


Contents
Three types of interactive activity
Uses synthetic and analytic approaches
Over 150 narrated words
Predefined word lists for easy access
On-screen keyboard

Features & Benefits
12 fun packed Talking stories that really will help young children with their reading. Each short story in the fully updated Naughty Stories V2 features narration with onscreen highlighting, beautiful illustrations and amusing animations. With brand new Inclusion and Support features, including custom pointers and switch access, this program provides even more children with the opportunity for independent reading practice.
Also perfect for whiteboards, with carefully placed buttons and teacher controlled pacing, you will love introducing the lively characters in Naughty Stories V2into your classroom.



Contents
12 fun-packed stories
Fully narrated, highlighting text
Lively animations
Switch/Spacebar access
Custom pointers

Painter 2 is an ideal first program for producing artwork on a computer.

The program offers a whole range of different brushes including crayon and spray. An eraser tool is included along with flood fill and a selection of regular shapes.

The teacher has the ability to adapt the look of the program so that various features can be hidden. QCA ICT Units 2B, ‘Creating Pictures’ and 4B, ‘Developing images using repeating patterns’.

You can use Painter 2 to:

Apply tile and symmetry effects at the touch of a button
Export pictures you have created to the Writer 2 and Turtle programs
Multiple undo and redo.
Curriculum Match
QCA quick guide: 1C, 2B, 4B, Key Stages 1-2, Levels A-C of the Scottish 5-14 Curriculum

Turtle 2 is designed to introduct turtle and logo-type software to young children. Using the progressive keypads, children use simple directional language to control the turtle on screen. Children will start with single instructions that the turtle reacts to immediately and move on to sequences of instructions.

The program is supplied with a large number of curriculum related backgrounds that provide scenarios such as getting the turtle around obstacles or to a certain place.

Use Turtle 2 to:

Choose from many different turtles
Export your project to the Writer 2 program
Print out a record of the sequence of instructions created for the turtle.
This program can be used to support the QCA ICT Unit 1F ‘Understanding instructions and making things happen’ and 2D ‘Routes: controlling a floor turtle’.

Curriculum Match
QCA quick guide 1F, Key Stage 1 and Lower Key Stage 2, Level A-B of the Scottish 5-14 Curriculum

Features
Kidspiration uses the proven principles of visual learning to help readers and writers learn to develop and organise their ideas.
Picture view provides a graphical way for pupils to represent their ideas using symbols(includes a library of over 3000 symbols).
Writing View allows pupils to begin the writing process, by expanding their visual thoughts.
One mouse click transition from Writing View to Picture View to Picture View and vice versa.
SuperGrouper tool allows pupils to interactively group and arrange thoughts and symbols.
Audio gives pupils the chance to hear their work read aloud, or record their own voice. All buttons, menus and other tex are text-to-speech enabled, helping pupils to read and navigate.
Symbol maker - create customised symbols with this new drawing tool.
Includes thumbnail of images in the outline view to support emerging readers and writers.
Super grouper template allows creation of VENN diagrams to categorise and sort information.
Syncronises files with Inspiration for Palm OS.
Interactive whiteboard enabled (except on Mac OS Classic).
NEW Maths View with 5 visual maths tools develop pupils number sense, spatial reasoning and conceptual understanding of the four basic operations.
NEW 3000+ symbols offer visual support for concepts taught in the primary curriculum.
Symbol search makes it easy to find the right picture, image or symbol to express thoughts and ideas
NEW Word Guide - a combination dictionary and thesaurus, builds pupils vocabulary and reading comprehension.
Benefits
Teaches emerging readers/ writers to clarify thinking, and to process, organise and priortise information.
Visual representation deepens the pupils understanding of concepts and identifies misconceptions.
Intuitive interface helps keeps pupils focused on their ideas, not on the process of constructing the mind mapping diagram.
Stimulates creative thinking.
NEW Build conceptual understanding in maths

An ideal introduction to teach early number work aimed at Key Stage 1 children. Designed to provide teachers with a range of material to support pupils who are taking those vital first steps that lead to confidence and competence with the number system. Topics include counting 0 to 10, ordering, patterns, number vocabulary, adding, subtracting, recognising and reading numbers. Activities are closely matched to Key Objectives of the National Numeracy Framework for Reception.

Delve into Dora's world with this Essential Guide

Can't get enough of Dora? Find out all you ever wanted to know about her friends, family and many adventures with this Essential Guide.

Go on adventures with Dora and her friends and relive some of the exciting moments from the hit TV show. Packed with question features and fact boxes - this is the ultimate treat for Dora fans!

Explore with all your friends from Dora The Explorer®, like Boots, Backpack, and Map
Visit Treasure Island, Fairytale Land and the Purple Planet
Solve puzzles and learn great facts about Dora and her friends!

Features & Benefits
Measure up! contains nine engaging multimedia activities, designed to carefully introduce and consolidate key aspects of measuring and estimating for infants. Each activity has two levels of difficulty, and can be worked on in isolation to focus on specific skills, or as part of a motivating adventure. With clear interfaces, full narration, and Ollie Octopus and Ellie Elephant on hand to help, children can effectively use the software independently, or engage with it in groups via an interactive whiteboard.


Contents
Nine engaging activities
Clear Teacher Options
Length, mass and capacity
Standard and non-standard units
Reading and interpreting numbers and scales
Choosing and using simple measuring instruments

Take an amazing look at the natural world with this inspiring new encyclopedia

What is life like underground? Where can you find the world's ugliest fish? Why are fungi so fantastic? Explore nature in all its glory with this fascinating encyclopedia - go ahead and take a leap into the natural world!

Discover plants and animals and where they live, from deserts to oceans, and rainforests to mountains. See spectacular close-up photography and full-colour illustrations, encouraging children to learn more about wildlife.

'Turn and Learn' and 'did you know?' buttons encourage interaction and cross-referencing skills
Clear, exciting text teaches children new vocabulary and inspires them to learn more
Perfect for National Curriculum Key Stage 1.

Features

What is email?: Receiving and sending messages: Using an email address book: Replying to a message: Adding attachments: Opening attachments: Annotating messages: Sending carbon copies: Full speech support throughout (even for buttons) ensures everyone can use it.

Sort is an information-handling program that provides an easy and simple way to introduce sorting using Venn, Carroll and Tree diagrams. It includes several topics that can be used across many curriculum areas. Examples include 2D shapes, coins, numbers up to 20 and fruits. Children can decide their own sort criteria and add labels in picture or word format. With Sort you can: Choose from a range of simple and more advanced diagram types; Export your work to the Writer program and Configure to suit pupils` abilities.

Create unique graphics, fancy logos and rollover effects with BlackCat Spider. Key features are:
Create multiple pages
Construct text-fields
Add graphical objects
Insert animations
Link individual pages
Fill graphical objects with solid colours, images or even colour-bands
Apply shadow effects to give the final touch
BlackCat Spider integrates all the necessary steps to generate a home page on the Internet. With BlackCat Spider's user-friendly approach, both layout, design and publication to the Internet is done in an easy and straightforward way.

Speaking for Myself PLUS now has enhanced graphics and new features. It has an extensive range of activities and resources for those with special needs and speech and language difficulties.
The program has 60 talking flash cards, four extra singalong nursery rhymes, simple two and three word talking stories and activities around matching, colouring, counting and sound recognition.
The CD incorporates `Signalong` videos as well as PCS symbols. It also has extra activities that you can print.


Key Features
• communication, cognitive and reading skills
• uses signing and symbols as bridges to the written and spoken word
• an invaluable resource for `teaching reading to teaching talking

There are four areas to the program as follows
• Set the Clock - pupils set a clock to match a target time.
• Say the Time - encourages children to click on words or numbers to build up a sentence which says the time on the clock.
• Match the Clocks - requires the clock on the left to match the clock on the right.
How Much Time` - asks pupils to work out the time difference between any combination of two clocks.
Delivery within 3-5 days

Freddy Teddy tackles all sorts of cross-curricular challenges in this Bumper Pack.
• In The Zoo Freddy counts animals from 1 to 5 or 10, randomly or in sequence.
• In Balloons Freddy must rescue a ball by recognising, or adding, numbers to 5 or 10.
And Many More Adventures

Features

More than 40 targeted Numeracy, Literacy, Design and Problem-solving activities for 3-11 year olds
Activities include making patterns, exploring shape, co-ordinating puzzles, practising times tables and sorting objects
Used in Primary schools around the UK but equally rewarding when used at home
Key Stages 1 & 2, Scotland to P6
Also suitable for children with special educational needs (SEN)

Features

Targeted 'logo' software for children and teens aged 6-15 years
Ideal introduction to programming, commands and procedures
Encourages children to think about shape and space
Develops all-round Maths skills including exploration of number, length, angular turns, directions, vectors and bearings!
Particularly rewarding for keen Maths students
Key Stages 1-4, Scotland to S3

Features

Gives children a taste for verbs while building reading, writing and spelling skills
National Curriculum-based software
Designed for 4-11 year olds
Key Stages 1 & 2, Scotland to P5
More than 400 verbs and synonyms to discover
Loveable 'Scally' character engages children in five different activities
Stunning graphics and real speech motivate children
Also suitable for special educational needs

Features & Benefits
Your young pupils will love exploring these six multimedia reference books, each on a favourite infant topic: The body, Homes, Transport, Pets, The seashore and Plants. Each book is divided into 10 relevant sections which your pupils can freely investigate using the straightforward navigation controls. All on-screen text is supported by full narration and highlighting.
This Special Edition resource features high-quality graphics and animations, a search facility to develop information retrieval skills and stimulating interactive tasks to check understanding. The range of inclusion features (such as switch access) allow the program to be accessible to a wide range of pupils.



Contents
Six talking reference books
Bright, appealing graphics and animations
Stimulating interactive tasks and straightforward search facility
Fully narrated, highlighting, on-screen text
Switch or spacebar access plus other inclusion features

Features

Book & CD-ROM set for children aged between 4 - 11 years
Based on and designed to be used with Topologika's 'Scally's World of Verbs'
Includes games, activity sheets and lots of resources on the CD-ROM
Includes a guide to using the book and its associated software with children
Ideal for day nurseries or after-school clubs
Stimulates an interest in verbs
Motivates children to practise reading and spelling
Reception, Year 1 & Year 2, Scotland to P7
Also suitable for children with special educational needs (SEN)

Features

Targeted learning for children and teens aged 7-15 years
Strengthens skills in the Four Rules of Number while keeping track of work done
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division practice
Traditional on-screen workbook, with interactive help and support
Ideal for maths revision and consolidation of skills
Key Stages 1-3, Scotland P3-S2
Also suitable for Adult Basic Education (ABE

Involving six activities, this program introduces pre-school children and the developmentally young to a host of vital skills.
Activities include mouse skills, decision making skills, visual and auditory stimulation, left/right orientation and tracking. With engaging graphics, catchy music and plenty of surprises, the child`s attention will be held, either using a mouse, switch or touchscreen to interact with the application.

Leaps and Bounds 3 is a totally enjoyable and educational experience for young children.The CD-ROM uses bright and colourful characters to stimulate the imagination of young learners, to encourage the development of vital Early Learning skills.


Key Features
• Develops mouse skills and hand eye co-ordination
• Encourages visual and auditory discrimination
• Six interactive games
• Provides opportunities for pupils to communicate and extend their vocabulary range
• Text free and speech free makes it suitable for the youngest of users

Features & Benefits
Seven fully narrated, engaging activities designed to develop important geography, numeracy and ICT skills.
Each focused activity has three levels of tutorial and help options to encourage independent learning, while record keeping tracks pupils' progress.

With two modes of use, each activity can be practised in isolation or as part of an exciting and entertaining adventure in which pupils help Captain Coordinate save a lost dinosaur egg from the greedy Profit twins.



Contents
Route planning
Timetables
Compass points
Map symbols and coordinates
Scale, interpreting maps and aerial views

Designed specifically for use in the classroom, spreadsheets can be introduced with ease as differing levels make it suitable for users of all abilities.
This version includes dynamic graphs which will automatically be updated. The `Quick Sheets` feature allows pupils to choose a topic, answer a few questions and Number Box will create a spreadsheet. Once the information is entered pupils can use the `Quick Sum` tool to analyse the data by showing the minimum and maximum numbers or calculating the average, median or mode.

Features & Benefits
Numeracy Box 1 provides an easy and useful solution for using ICT to support numeracy. Developed specifically for use by children in Year 1, this program contains a wealth of short, structured activities that address key areas of the National Numeracy Strategy including basic mathematical concepts such as ordering and comparing numbers, fractions and mental calculations.


Contents
Eight exciting activities
Full narration
Appealing graphics and animations
Configurable to the needs of individual pupils

Features & Benefits
Built around the concepts of connections and patterns, Numeracy Connections is ideal for helping young children learn and understand essential number concepts in a meaningful and appealing way, covering the number range 0-100.
Based on Simon Hosler's original, award-winning program, Numeracy Connections has been fully updated to make the most of state-of-the-art multimedia capabilities. Clear narration models essential mathematical language throughout, and a zoom feature enables the software to be used for whole-class teaching.



Contents
Covers the number range 0-100
Counting in ones, twos, threes, fours, fives and tens
Tens and Units
Combining Sets
Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division

Strumbie Island resources are ideal to help support and encourage the development of emotional literacy in young children. Highly engaging and interactive, Strumbie Island has been written to help children recognise, understand, handle and appropriately express their own and other people's emotions and behaviour.
Using this interactive CD-ROM and workbook, children can enjoy Billy as he travels to the mysterious Strumbie Island. The Strumbies are a secretive race of people, known to love sweet things, like chocolate. They are generally good-natured and like to have fun. Due to their small size however, they can only have one feeling at a time. Discover how Billy gets on when he meets Dol, Mimi, Stomp, Brag, Patience, Cheeri, Grump, Misty and the others.

Supported by teaching plans and resources, the ten chapters of Strumbie Island can be used as a ten-week programme covering such themes as:

Getting on and falling out
Saying no to bullying
Goal setting
Self-esteem
Relationships

Smudge Spells is a first spelling program which enables children to practise the spelling of words, through nine different activities, including a crossword and wordsearch.
The program has a large vocabulary of words with pictures and sounds, which can be tailored by teachers, and there are optional animated themes featuring Smudge at sea! The program is supported by a spelling reference, which links to the activities, and spelling lists.


Key features
• Nine different activities to practise spelling
• Covers a wide range of spelling topics
• Optional animated themes of Smudge at sea
• Supported by a reference guide and spelling lists
• Includes reporting

Features

Key times of the day: Days of the week: Seasons and months: Telling the time: Digital and analogue clocks

Features

Four focused tasks at four different levels: Eight familiar topics: Switch enabled: Configurable options and speech support: Clear images and simple interface

Features

Covers facts and vocabulary of 1x to 10x tables, each ranging from 0x to 10x: Nine varied, interactive and engaging activities: Record keeping facility

School Version

The program consists of 180 sentences of increasing phonic complexity. It provides full audio support and configurable display options.
Word Track activities:
reinforce correct spellings of words in the context of sentences
encourage users to check each phoneme
support the reading and spelling of high frequency words
incorporate practising spellings by ‘look, say, remember, type, check’ strategies
builds keyboard skills
support the correct use of punctuation and grammatical awareness
The Word Track Workbook accompanies this CD-ROM. It is full of photocopiable extension activities that use the same practical approach to improving memorising skills.

An engrossing program including two listening games and two spelling pattern games, which aid the child in practicing sound and letter recognition at word level.
The teacher can choose the letters used in each activity and there is clear help, correction, reinforcement and rewards given to help the child. With on screen narrated help being just a click away and a record keeping facility to keep an eye on the children`s work. This application will be an enjoyable choice to help develop essential reading and spelling skills.

Key Features
• Supports the requirements of the NLS
• Narrated on-screen help
• Very easy to use
• Narrated reinforcement routines
• Clear and gentle correction to help children
• Record keeping tracks children`s work
• Teacher controls allow selection of activities and letters

An introduction to word processing that helps develop the confidence of children who are taking their first steps with a word processor. There are twenty word banks of useful vocabulary and the words in the banks are spoken. All word banks contain a selection of illustrations, which can be used to stimulate the writing process.
Teachers can select lists and set up levels for individual users. Word banks relate to themes that are commonly used in early Years classrooms like my family and myself.
Children can choose to print out their work in full colour or use the black and white option. This allows them to choose the colours away from the computer.
Key features
• Use 20 word banks to aid writing - including Early Learning topics such as Myself, My Family, The Park
• Choose between three levels of differentiation within each word list
• Listen to the audio support in all the word banks
• Set levels and select lists for individual pupils
• Includes 2 word banks to enable pupils to retell a traditional story

Level 1 in the Primary Literacy Series
Specifically designed to support the Primary Literacy Strategy and the Literacy Hour this disc contains a range of activities covering word, sentence and text strands of the framework. Including games such as Bingo and I Spy that children play to learn words and letters without realising, and animated characters that act as guides to take the children through the different activities. There is also a book containing notes about the disc and photocopiable worksheets.

Key features
• Targeted to National Literacy Strategy
• Literacy Objectives identified
• Word, Sentence and Text levels covered
• Glossary included
• Teacher`s book of worksheets
• Web-linked to further resources

Practise Maths at 7 is an essential resource to help pupils in their preparation for the Mathematics National Tests at 7 years of age.
The questions in this resource reflect the question style that will be encountered in the National Tests.
There are 480 written and spoken questions supported by delightful graphics and instructions, record of individual performance and level of achievement, and comprehensive, printable teacher support material.

All the programs in Numbers, Words and Pictures 2 can be run from a simple menu, exchange data between programs and can be configured to suit the needs of individual pupils. They include:
Pick a Picture 2
Introduces key data-handling concepts in an easy to use way. Graph, search and sort data, with pre-provided topic based data sets gets you started.
Counting Pictures 3
Produce simple pictograms and graphs with this easy-to-use software. Includes many pre-defined resources and topic related data sets for use in the classroom.
Painter 2
A simple graphics program that provides the essential tools and features for producing artwork on a computer. Real crayon, spray and pencil effects can be used to emulate natural drawing tools.
Turtle 2
An uncomplicated introduction to Logo allowing pupils to easily control an on-screen turtle. Includes fun turtle projects for pupils to complete.
Sort
An easy and simple way to introduce sorting using Venn and Carroll diagrams. Includes pre-built data sets and attribute blocks.
Writer 2
Simple word processing with built-in templates, word lists and image resources to aid activities for younger pupils.

All About Toys is designed to support pupils in their study of Physical Processes target of the NC at KS1.
It introduces pupils to a variety of new skills and is provides teachers with a differentiated range of activities to support pupils who are learning about physical processes. There are opportunities to consolidate work on light, sound, electricity, pushes and pulls and forces and movement.
Key features
• Encourages discussion
• Develops scientific vocabulary
• Develops visual and aural memory
• Develops listening skills

Teddy Bears` Picnic has seven carefully structured activities, each at 3 levels of difficulty, to encourage the development of ICT skills and understanding through focused numeracy and literacy activities. Fully narrated, the activities can be accessed individually or as part of an exciting, linear adventure.
There`s a lot to do before the Teddy Bears` Picnic - the invitations need to be written, the shopping must be done and Teddy wants help selecting a snazzy outfit. Once everything is prepared, Teddy has to be directed around a map to the picnic site. Then a `picnic postcard` must be created and, finally, all the tired teddies want to record what they enjoyed most about the day on a pictogram.

Join Bucket and Spade and their friends at the seaside in eight entertaining activities covering almost every aspect of KS1 shape and space work.
With three activity levels, teachers can easily configure the program to match their specific teaching objectives. The range of content is broad enough to provide support for lower achievers as well as challenge the more able - right across the age range. Bucket and Spade are always on hand to help and instruct as they visit all their favourite seaside locations, vividly brought to life with rich photographic textures and colourful animations.
Content includes:
• Naming 2D and 3D shapes and identifying their properties
• Position, direction and movement
• Repeating and symmetrical patterns
• Whole, half and quarter turns

Features & Benefits
This CD-ROM supports, consolidates and extends the practical experiences that are fundamental to children’s understanding of science. Five exciting fairground attractions include a variety of activities that focus on the Physical Processes component of the National Curriculum for Science at KS 1 and the corresponding sections of the Scottish 5-14 Guidelines Levels A-B.


Contents
Day, night and the seasons
Electricity, forces and motion, light, sound
Earth, Sun and Moon in space
2 levels of difficulty for each part