Wordshark is a major teaching resource used widely in schools.(Licences avaialble for mulltiple users)
It is suitable for Key-stage 1-3, early literacy to 13 years or so. The games and the selection of pre-recorded words have been specially targeted to assist those with specific learning difficulties/dyslexia. The variety of games, concepts and words make Wordshark suitable for use in both primary and secondary schools as well as at home.
The 41 games provide high motivation and interest. Each game is designed to help with one or more aspects of reading and spelling. Variable levels and speeds for each game to meet all grades of skill levels. Games provide good training in mouse and keyboard skills.
The word lists are presented in 3 alternative structured courses to cover the Literacy Hour, the 3 stages of the book `Alpha to Omega` or as a Secondary Adult SEN. Words are grouped in a structured sequence to reinforce the learning process. Contextual uses of words are provided in sentences for every list. Pupils can work independently on pre-selected word lists. Choice of words based on all 3 stages of the book `Alpha to Omega`. Facility to record your own word lists. Easy to follow manual including all word lists and teaching notes. Help boxes are relevant to the current screen with on screen teaching notes. Printouts of wordsearch and sentence worksheets are available for every list to reinforce learning.

This structured course covering 500 topics supports the renewed DfES Framework. 45 games teach and reinforce numeracy, promoting both understanding and memorising of number facts and the standard written methods. Games include practice in different aspects of place value, ordering, grouping, commutativity, exchange and links between operations. 1500 word problems help put numbers into context. Rods, number line, scale, digits, words, abacus, number pad and 100square show numbers in many of their different formats. Mental strategies are well addressed at all levels.
The CD addresses many of the difficulties which lead students to dislike maths, including poor short-term memory, limited attention span and poor sequencing skills. Teachers can set up individual programmes of work to support Personalised Learning and records of student activities are kept. Variable options in the games meet all grades of skill and Help screens can be shown and spoken alongside games as you play them.

Features
Interactive records, assessments and group monitoring
5,000 words and sentences
20 computer games 25 animated rules
70 animated phonemes
Library of interactive mnemonics and word endings
120 lesson plans with strategies for learning
Facility to record and play games with your own words
Over 1000 printable games and worksheets
40 interactive worksheets
Interactive comic explains ‘What’s it like being dyslexic?’
The Fair - 9 games to maintain motivation
Printable certificates
Punctuation, reading accuracy, dictionary skills, grammar
Writing and planning strategies

Nessy encourages positive, independent, learning. Students are encouraged to mark their own work and take on more responsibility for their own learning, playing games, watching rules and completing interactive worksheets. Their efforts are rewarded with Nessy Nuggets, which can be used at an interactive Fairground.
The game based learning has proved extremely effective in addressing the needs of disaffected students, motivating and building self-esteem.
Includes an A4 printed teaching manual full of information about dyslexia. Has proved successful with EBD, EAL, Down’s Syndrome, Asperger’s as well as mainstream pupils.

Unlimited Site Licence-One School per licence. Use programme with as many pc terminals on one school site.

Journey to the distant mountains of Ness, hatch the mystery egg and grow your own pet monster. As Nessy grows you are led through a series of motivating games that follow a structured reading and spelling programme devised by specialist teachers.

GamesPlayer can be followed independently or used to provide support for the Nessy Learning Programme. Users can record their own words to play with or select from the comprehensive pre-recorded lists that include key words from the National Literacy Strategy. The range of difficulty options makes GamesPlayer suitable for all children, including both gifted students and those with special educational needs.

Game-based learning rapidly improves reading and spelling but to be really effective Nessy GamesPlayer has been designed to create a multi-sensory learning environment (see, hear, say and do). All the words introduced in the games have been carefully graded to ensure a steady progression. Multiple levels cater for children of all ages and abilities.

Improve spelling
Increase reading speed
Extend vocabulary
Build self-confidence and self-motivation
Guides your child without supervision
Designed by British specialist teachers
Learn National Curriculum Key Stage word lists
Ideal as a home support

Nessy Tales are designed to motivate reluctant readers and help build confidence. A limited vocabulary of decodable words is combined with animated pages to engage older children with a lower reading ability.
These short stories are ideal for those with limited concentration. The text on each page is well spaced out and limited to 2 or 3 sentences. Words are highlighted as they are read. Narration can be turned on or off to allow for periods of rest between reading.
The 5 animated stories each has an interactive quiz and colourful supporting worksheets.

These short stories are ideal for those with limited concentration. The text on each page is well spaced out and limited to 2 or 3 sentences. Words are highlighted as they are read. Narration can be turned on or off to allow for periods of rest between reading.

***Also available in multi-user 1-5 users format.

Nessy Fingers gives you a flying start at school. Master the keyboard to learn a lifelong skill.Nessy is so easy to use you can work independently. You will soon see significant improvements in confidence and self-esteem.
Nessy fingers is a powerful way to improve spelling by developing your memory for movement.

Special features:

Rapid learning in 5 short lessons
Swim as Nessy to set personal speed and accuracy targets
Type your own tunes. Import mp3s to play with the games
Type using your own words
A wide range of options to personalise settings
Stickers to cover the keys and ensure learning is by touch.
Colour coding to aid fast laerning.

Memorise key positions - learn correct finger
placement and posture.
Accuracy - an early emphasis upon typing accurately.
Speed - games motivate practice. Practice develops speed.

Explore the land of Ness and play 9 fantastic games. In the Dungeon of Doom battle dragons, skeletons and ghosts. On Monkey Island play penalty shootout with Burt the boss gorilla. At Penguin Mountains crush Rocky under a giant snowball. Win bigger and better trophies, medals and awards in the Hall of Fame.

Decscriiption as for other versions of the product.

Nessy Fingers gives you a flying start at school. Master the keyboard to learn a lifelong skill.Nessy is so easy to use you can work independently. You will soon see significant improvements in confidence and self-esteem.
Nessy fingers is a powerful way to improve spelling by developing your memory for movement.

Special features:

Rapid learning in 5 short lessons
Swim as Nessy to set personal speed and accuracy targets
Type your own tunes. Import mp3s to play with the games
Type using your own words
A wide range of options to personalise settings
Stickers to cover the keys and ensure learning is by touch.
Colour coding to aid fast laerning.

Memorise key positions - learn correct finger
placement and posture.
Accuracy - an early emphasis upon typing accurately.
Speed - games motivate practice. Practice develops speed.

Explore the land of Ness and play 9 fantastic games. In the Dungeon of Doom battle dragons, skeletons and ghosts. On Monkey Island play penalty shootout with Burt the boss gorilla. At Penguin Mountains crush Rocky under a giant snowball. Win bigger and better trophies, medals and awards in the Hall of Fame.

40 hilarious phonic animations make learning to read much easier!

Being able to recognise these phonemes helps to decode words into chunks.

Practise reading the sounds in words with a game of Piranha Snap.

Comes with one pack of phonic sound flash cards to reinforce learning.

**Also available in multi-user cd format

Marlon, Mack, Molly and Maz are planning to go to the school fair and need your pupils to help them with a variety of tasks, starting with helping Marlon to check his money box. Each of the six money-related activities 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.
Features:

•Money-related vocabulary
•Coin recognition
•Totalling amounts
•Change
•Equivalence
•Simple problem solving

A series of activities specially designed to teach mouse skills in an entertaining and visually appealing atmosphere. Learners are taken stage by stage through the many applications of the mouse. Move the mouse over an object, drag and drop, drag along a path and the use of drop-down menus are all represented. Various clicking activities can be found such as clicking anywhere, click timing and double clicking.
Introductions to each activity are provided and the successful completion of a task is met with a range of pleasing rewards.
Many games options are configurable, such as the complexity of the task. Background graphics may be switched off to provide a high contrast visual appearance. Colours, sound effects and background music may be similarly customised. Setups will be remembered when restarting the program.

Noisy Things is a collection of 9 simple yet absorbing musical activities. A mouse-click generates unique effects and rhythms, all based on the principle of cause and effect to encourage further experimentation. Children love to see and hear how the Noisy Things react and it's so easy to use! Develops valuable early learning skills such as matching and pattern recognition.
• Free from text and spoken instructions
• Pleasing musical and rhythmic compositions can be created in seconds
• Ideal for SEN learners of any age. Activities can be accessed in a variety of ways, including mouse click, space bar, IWB or touch screen

Create and record professional sounding music. No experience required.
Music Creator's elegant design and drag and drop interface makes creating and sharing music fast, easy, and fun. Turn your PC into your personal recording studio and includes everything you need to create, edit, and mix professional recordings. Whether it's a cover of your favorite tune or an original composition, turn a simple idea into a finished song with Music Creator's powerful suite of tools, loops, instruments, and effects. And when you're ready to share your music with the world, you can burn a CD or use SoundCloud to post your music on Facebook and Twitter.

*Create with Song Construction Kits including over 1,000 professionally recorded music loops
*Record and edit live vocals, epic guitar amp tones, and hundreds of instrument sounds
*Access hundreds of instrument sounds and even create drum parts to fill out your songs
*Record and mix with studio-quality effects like reverb, EQ, delay and the new IK Multimedia Amplitube 3 CS guitar amp simulator
*Mix and remix with professional effects and cutting edge production tools
*Share your music on Facebook and Twitter with SoundCloud
*Learning Music Creator 6 is easy with the instructional videos, tutorials, and manual provided

Music Creator 6 Includes:

*Song construction kits with 1000+ music loops
*Dozens of project templates
*Studio Instruments Drums
*Cakewalk Sound Center
*IK Amplitube 3 CS (Guitar Amp)
*Matrix View (for drag and drop remixing)
*Audio and MIDI editing tools
*Instructional videos by Groove 3
and much more!

Recommended for Windows XP (32-bit), Vista (32 or 64-bit), or Windows 7 (32 or 64-bit)

Whether you are working in mainstream education or a special needs setting, Clicker is the perfect tool for helping all your pupils achieve reading and writing success. Clicker enables children to learn and progress within an easy-to-navigate, motivating environment tailored to their individual needs.
Clicker 6 builds on the acclaimed support features of its predecessor. It combines customisable pupil support tools that empower children to work independently, with intuitive activity wizards that make it easier than ever before for teachers to create and edit Clicker activities.
What's new in Clicker 6?
More pupil independence!
• Quick start word processor - Children are able to start working straight away!
• Primary word predictor - This intelligent predictor suggests words that fit the context of the pupil's writing.
• Enhanced picture library - Over 2500 curriculum pictures, which are available for use in documents, Clicker Sets, the predictor and the spellchecker!
• Built-in painting tools - Crick's popular painting program, Clicker Paint, is now fully integrated into Clicker.
• Webcam support - Pupils' photographs instantly appear in their Clicker documents.
• Favourites list - Children save their favourite Clicker activities for easy future access.
• Click & Edit books - Enable pupils to independently create their own talking books and presentations!
Less teacher time!
• Clicker wizards - Follow the step-by-step instructions to quickly create personalised reading, writing, matching, labelling, speaking and listening activities.
• New editing tools - Editing activities made simple! Click on a cell and the toolbar instantly changes to display only the tools relevant to the item being edited.
• Faster access to LearningGrids - No need to login, access hundreds of free resources instantly from within Clicker!

Clicker Paint is an exciting new program that fully integrates with Clicker 5 and works as a powerful stand-alone program as well. Clicker Paint has been designed as an educational tool, incorporating unique and innovative features that add new dimensions to classroom creativity.

Clicker Paint works seamlessly within Clicker, enabling pupils to illustrate their writing and engage in a range of new learning activities. A button on the Clicker Grid opens Clicker Paint as a pop-up that provides the tools and canvas for you to compose your picture. When you close the pop-up, the picture automatically transfers to your Clicker Grid!

Clicker Paint is incredibly pupil-friendly, yet includes many powerful features that will motivate children of all abilities, whether you are working within Clicker or using it as a stand-alone program. In addition to using the child-friendly painting tools to illustrate their stories, pupils can also engage in a range of activities that address specific learning objectives.

With Clicker Paint, new Clicker activities and templates are supplied to get you started right away. The activities are ready to use, yet can be very easily modified for particular lessons. The templates make it easy for your pupils to create talking books with their own illustrations, and for you to create new activities

The all singing all dancing addition to Clicker with over 100 original animations and over 500 ready-made grids, the graphics will animate both in the Clicker grid and in Clicker Writer!
Bringing the Clicker Talking Books and Multimedia presentations to life, these animations can be used to great effect in the classroom, initially as a writing support but also to enhance classroom based work on verbs

Developed as part of a research project at the University of Wales in Cardiff; ReacTickles provides an engaging and accessible computer environment for spontaneous imaginative play and learning. ReacTickles provides a series of interactive Tickles through which children with autism and other learning disabilities are encouraged to use technology. Children can develop mouse; keyboard; whiteboard; switch and screen skills whilst being encouraged to communicate, to use fine motor skills and to work together.

The software also works well within mainstream early years settings enabling very young children to interact and learn to communicate as individuals and within small groups. Version 2 improves on installation, interface, creation of bespoke user interfaces, access to teacher and pupil resources and has been switch enabled to further increase accessibility.

•The playful ReacTickles focus on improvisational activity rather than a set of predetermined routines that lead to a preset goal.
•Confidence is gained through the opportunity to repeat actions, with each exploration offering a new and unique visual or auditory reward.
•Inspired by real world objects that children love to manipulate, Slinkies, lava lamps, spinning tops and coins, the ReacTickles environment offers a safe place to experience dynamic interaction where players freely explore abstract shapes and create rhythmic responses with their fingers and bodies without judgement or fear.
•ReacTickles are highly motivating and have been shown to help children develop concentration and attention skills, as well as encouraging sharing and imaginative play.

Spelling Force is the complete spelling tutor for classroom and home

Spelling Force can assist struggling learners by giving them words appropriate to their level; expand and develop their spelling vocabulary; and challenge them with new words and spelling rules to mature their spelling skills.

Spelling Force is simple-to-use and comprehensive spelling software that brings to your home computer an extensive bank of graded spelling lists. Four awesome games with flexible options challenge the most advanced student but are accessible to those with special needs.


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


•Subject Area: Spelling.


•Content: Spelling, Phonics, Vocabulary.

Eye Track contains a range of fun and motivational activities to support learners experiencing difficulty with visual perception.
Developed by occupational thrapists and a specialist teacher, this resource covers a wide range of visual concepts, including;
Discrimination, Memory, Sequential Memory, Spatial Relationships, Form Consistency, Figure Ground, and Closure Perception. The activities in Eye Track target each of these in a progressive, unique and fun way that can be both teacher-led or child directed.

Spell Track is a new CD-ROM that improves spelling, which helps pupils of all ages with specific learning difficulties, such as dyslexia, to spell with confidence, consistency and accuracy.

Nominated for the 2005 New Statesman's "Bright Sparks" educational awards.
Spell Track can be customised through a variety of options, such as changing contrast backgrounds settings and work display times and choosing words from the National Literacy Strategy and high frequency work lists.

You can also create and upload your own words and sentences for learners to practice.

Word Track is an easy-to-use CD-ROM, which helps pupils improve their ability to memorise and hence to learn. It is ideal for all learners with specific learning difficulties, who have particular problems with memorising spellings.

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

Using colourful animated screens with music and sounds, Picture Builder attracts and holds the attention of users and is suitable for teenage and older users as well as early years pupils and the profoundly disabled. Activities aim to develop access and switch skills, using 'cause and effect' work as well as making choices and encouraging language and communication work.
Activities can be accessed using switch, mouse, keyboard or voice input and include:


Jigsaw maker
Pattern generator
Puzzle slider
Reveal and knock out
Noisy colouring
Image builder

This CD-ROM allows you to import files from digital pictures and scanned images, as well as offering a vast bank of images for you to choose from. It is fully configurable for the individual user and with printable user records available. It is available in dual format and suitable for one, two or multi switches, working with space bar, mouse-click and touch-screen.

Features & Benefits
A Busy Day, based on the daily life of a child, offers a different approach for those who find the process of reading difficult. It provides the basic fundamentals for early literacy involving pre-reading, writing and communication skills. It is a flexible reading approach linking pictures and text with functional nouns.

This interactive reading tool can be adapted to suit the needs of slow starters in the mainstream classroom, for those with communication and language difficulties and for students learning English as a second language. It teaches comprehension of the printed word in an interesting, fun and motivational way.



Contents
Fully switch accessible, including using voice input
13 interactive pages at 3 different levels
3 games to develop word recognition and observation with 3 levels of difficulty
3 word levels
Customisable word bank
Printable worksheets, certificates and lotto boards
Clipart

Description
For visual mapping, outlining, writing and making presentations, use Inspiration 9, the ultimate thinking and learning tool. Brainstorm ideas, structure your thoughts and visually communicate concepts to strengthen understanding with the Diagram and Map Views. To take notes, organise information, and structure writing for plans, essays and reports, use the integrated Outline View. With Inspiration's Presentation Manager, transform your diagrams, mind maps and outlines into polished presentations that communicate ideas clearly and demonstrate understanding and knowledge.
Features
¦Inspiration makes it easy to create webs, idea maps, mind maps, concept maps, graphic organisers, process flows, and other diagrams for thinking, organising and writing. Use these proven visual thinking and learning techniques to explore and explain relationships and integrate new knowledge with what you already know.
¦Get organised and think through projects and assignments more effectively using the Inspiration Outline View. Structure and organise your work for planning and writing.
¦Use the content you have developed in Diagram, Map and Outline Views and expand your work into presentations and final projects. The Inspiration Presentation Manager provides all the tools you need to create organised, polished presentations that convey ideas clearly and demonstrate your understanding and knowledge.
¦Visually represent concepts more effectively with new symbol libraries designed to support curriculum content
¦Develop slides from content automatically generated from Diagram, Map and Outline Views
Benefits
¦Pupils develop essential learning strategies as they create visual diagrams to represent mind maps, concepts and relationships.
¦Compile and sort a wide of range of digital resources into a central Inspiration document. HTML export including linked resources makes this ideal for supporting DiDA.
¦Pupils use visual diagrams to develop and organise ideas as they start the writing process.
¦Supports the planning and writing of essays, stories, letters, reports, websites, Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentations and projects
¦Ideal tool for presenting information in stages and as part of a Q&A session.
¦Visual representation deepens the pupils understanding of concepts and identifies misconceptions.
¦Export documents as PDFs - ideal for creating resources to use within a VLE

Sound Beginnings 2 is the second edition of this unique, highly motivational interactive resource designed to encourage communication in young children and those with special education needs.
This edition encompasses even more exciting activities using voice stimulus. A simple microphone is all that is needed - voice input training or complicated configurations are not required.
All the activities can be configured to suit individual users. You can also track progress of an individual through printable user records. There is even a gallery that can be viewed showing saved screenshots from certain activities that a user has accessed.

Activities include:

Counting
Flying
Painting
Racing
Placing

SIMPLIFIED EDUCATIONAL KEYBOARD
Features
• An anti-bacterial coating inhibits the growth of bacteria helping to prevent the spread of germs, bugs & flu viruses
• Visually contrasting colours make the keys clearer for the visually impaired
• Key are printed with both upper & lowercase letters - perfect for early learners
• Water Resistant & Spill Proof: 5 Specially designed holes prevent damage from spillages
• USB - PS/2 Combi: To suit your connection requirements
• Button life: 10 million cycles (MBTF)
• High quality membrane - noise free
• Plug & play
• Features raising capacity feet & rubberised pads
• Illuminated caps lock, num lock, scroll lock keys
• Compatible with: Windows 98 and above, Apple Mac: Mac OS X, 9.0 or later

Specifications
• Cable length: 1.5m
• Key travel: 3.5 ± 0.5mm
• Operating force: 55g ± 20g
• Supply voltage: 4.40V ~ 5.20V
• Working current: <50mA
• Storage temp: -20oC ~ +60oC
• Operating temp: -5oC ~ +45oC
• Storage humidity: 10% ~ 70% RH
• Operating humidity: 10% ~ 80% RH
• Dimensions: 472 x 166 x 35mm

OPTICAL MINI EDUCATIONAL SCROLL MOUSE
Features
• An anti-bacterial coating inhibits the growth of bacteria helping to prevent the spread of germs, bugs & flu viruses
• High Resolution Mouse: Up To 800dpi Giving you accurate & precise movement
• USB - PS/2 Combi: To suit your connection requirements
• Wheel life: > 30Km
• Button life: 3 million cycles (MBTF)
• Easy Zoom In/Out
• Plug & play
• Compatible with: Windows 98 & above, Apple Mac: Mac OS X, 9.0 or later

Specifications
• Cable length: 150CM
• Storage temp: -20oC ~ +60oC
• Operating temp: -5oC ~ +45oC
• Storage humidity: 10% ~ 70% RH
• Operating humidity: 10% ~ 80% RH
• Dimensions: 90.5 x 53 x 36mm
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