[senco-forum] Acceleread Accelewrite

My school has recently bought this resource. After a term it has

We used it widely in the former Cleveland on Acorn computers, but the
strength of it was that it could be used on any computer that had a
talking wordprocessor - some of our SENCos were very creative in the way
they provided 1:1 support, both in lower secondary and primary schools
Cheers
Judith
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Judith Stansfield
SEN ICT Consultant
BDACC (Associate member)
Farm Cottage, 24 East Road, Melsonby,Richmond DL10 5NF
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01325 718139   07990572365
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-----Original Message-----
From: senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk
[mailto:senco-forum-bounces at lists.becta.org.uk] On Behalf Of
Pauline.Bentote
Sent: 06 September 2006 17:47
To: Jonathan Sampson; A - SENCO-FORUM
Subject: Re: [senco-forum] Acceleread Accelewrite

There is nothing to load!! You just need a word processor which provides
speech feedback eg Textease, and set it to say words and sentences.

The CD which comes with the materials just contains the instructions of
how
to deliver the programme. The essential part is the pack of cards
containing
the graded sentences, which the pupil will type onto the word processor,
gaining speech feedback to help them correct any errors - or to feel
good if
it says what they hoped it would say!

We have been evaluating it in a selection of Hampshire schools of late,
with
excellent progress being shown by a wide range of pupils (well over the
aspirational 'double the normal rate of progress' expected of Wave 3
interventions.

Pauline

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jonathan Sampson" <the.sampsons.111 at virgin.net>
To: "A - SENCO-FORUM" <senco-forum at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, September 06, 2006 5:05 PM
Subject: [senco-forum] Acceleread Accelewrite

> My school has recently bought this resource.  After a term it has
been 
> loaded on the server, but I cannot work out how to use it.  I am
probably 
> being very dense, but I have too much to do at the beginning  of term
to 
> play around with it.  I have various cards, books and cds,  but cannot

> find the 'idiots guide'.
> Please could someone help me............and let me know their opinion
of 
> it
>
> many thanks
> Sue ks2
>
> 