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Adult Literacy Software
Software for older students
and adults to help improve literacy skills. Listed alphabetically.
Click on 'more information' to get details on each program.
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Adventures of Angus McIntyre #1
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$59.95 schools
/ $39.95 home
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"The Great Australian Ghost Story"
A fully narrated, 12-chapter story
with fun illustrations, comprehension and vocabulary exercises
designed to challenge and motivate high school students and/or
adults to improve and enjoy reading.
Also suitable for students with lower-level reading
skills and those who are dyslexic or have dyscalculia short-term
memory or ADD.
[More information and pictures]
Ages 10-16+
Dual WIN/MAC CD
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Adventures of Angus McIntyre #2
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$59.95 schools
/ $39.95 home
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NEW!
"Crumpet the Wonder Dog"
Another great Australian software adventure story for children
between 10 and 16 yrs to increase literacy, comprehension
and vocabulary skills, Includes 12-chapter story with fun
illustrations, extension exercises designed to challenge and motivate
older students to improve and enjoy reading.
Also suitable for students with lower-level reading
skills and those who are dyslexic or have dyscalculia short-term
memory or ADD. [More information
and pictures]
Ages 10-16+
Dual WIN/MAC CD
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AussieSpell
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$21.95
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AussieSpell is a well-loved program around Australia. Its content
is suitable for older students and adult learners.
The AussieSpell program is a comprehensive spelling package based
on a sequential development of spelling skills, ranging from the
ability to spell the simplest three-letter words to harder multi-syllabic
words.
[More information]
Ages 6 to Adult
WIN 3.1/95 CD
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CGEA CD ROM
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$126 schools / $63 home
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This is an interactive multimedia computer resource for adults
to learn literacy and numeracy.
All exercises are based around real-life activities and provide
learning, practice and assessment tasks for each of the learning
outcomes described in Levels 2, 3 and 4 of the literacy, oracy
and numeracy streams of the CGEA. [More information
and pictures]
Ages 12 to
Adult
WIN CD
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English Factory
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$79.95 schools
/ $59.95 home
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The English Factory is a fully interactive program.
An Australian grammar for primary schools.
Suitable for all students who are developing their reading acquisition
skills, including those with mild reading difficulties.
A suitable resource for adult and ESL students.
[More information
and pictures]
Ages 5 to 13 +
Adult Learners
Dual WIN/MAC CD
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Interactive Picture Dictionary
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$154 schools
/ $77 home
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This is a very practical way for students to learn English
vocabulary, reading, spelling and comprehension. It's
easy to use and includes over 800 words, accompanied by over 600
photographs, in 40 categories. Students can test themselves and
get immediate feedback. Beginners level. [More
information and pictures]
Ages 7 to Adult
WIN
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Issues in English 1
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$176 schools
/ $88 home
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An
interactive multimedia computer program for adult literacy,
ESL and EFL learners. Eight topical issues. Self-paced
with instant feedback. Teaches and tests comprehension, spelling,
vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and a range of writing
skills.
All 4 levels, from Beginner to Advanced, are included on
the one CD. [More information and
pictures]
Ages 12 to Adult
WIN CD
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Issues in English 2
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$198 schools
/ $99 home
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For
adult literacy and English as a second language.
This is the second volume of the Issues in English series, with
more than 20 brand new exercises and 8 new issues.
Activities based on video clips of dialogues. Learner voice recording.
Over 600 printable worksheets, answer sheets and test results.
Learner tracking and reporting and more!
Highly recommended for adults wanting to improve their
spelling, grammar, comprehension, vocabulary and writing
skills.
Includes 4 levels, from Beginner to Advanced.
[More information, and on-line demonstration]
Ages 12 to Adult
WIN CD
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Lower Case Keyboard Stickers
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5
sheets for $14.25
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Lower
case decals which stick on your computer keyboards.
Help ESL students to navigate their computer with lower
case stickers for their keyboards. [More
Information]
All Schools
Dual WIN/MAC CD
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Measuring Up
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$126.50
school / $64.00 home
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Measuring
Up teaches basic numeracy skills for measurement in the fractions,
decimals, reading scales and metric units. It is based on real-life
applications of measurement in activities such as shopping, sport
and cooking.
Measuring Up is suitable for learners at beginner to lower intermediate
levels of maths.
It highly recommended for remedial work with older students,
as it is designed for secondary students, adult learners and English
as a Second Language students
[More information, pictures and
on-line demonstration]
Ages 12 to adult
WIN CD
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Reading Freedom Series
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$54.95
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Reading Freedom is a comprehensive, fully integrated phonics
program that is carefully structured to teach students the skills
they need to become effective readers. It is especially useful
for students with reading difficulties.
The strength of Reading Freedom is in its modern phonics-based
approach and its fundamental principles of structured instruction,
and positive reinforcement through the demonstrated mastery
of basic reading skills.
[More Information and pictures]
Ages 8 to Adult
Dual WIN/MAC CD
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Reading Works
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$89.95 schools
/ $69.95 home
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A
fully interactive program designed to help average to high
IQ students with low reading ability to achieve reading
fluency.
It is also an excellent resource for all students who are developing
their reading acquisition skills. The five levels of the program
are carefully structured according to reading age and interest
age.
[More information and pictures]
Ages 5 to Adult
Dual WIN/MAC CD
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Spelling Fusion
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$176 schools
/ $88 home
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Awarded 'Best in Class' - International
Training!
TBCON eLearning 2007
NEW! Australian Spelling Program for older students, adults
and English as a Second Language learners!
Spelling Fusion is a brand new, interactive multimedia program
that teaches and tests spelling, vocabulary and pronunciation.
[More information
and on-line demonstration ]
Ages 12 to Adult
WIN CD
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SpinOut Stories
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$143
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Great for boys, indigenous Australians, ESL and older students.
Stories designed especially for struggling readers aged
10 to 15 years.
Contains reading, writing and various extension activities,
with fiction and nonfiction stories on CD. Printed story books
are included. Subjects include surfing, saltwater crocodiles,
heavy machinery, building sites, dreaming etc.
[More Information]
Ages 10 to 15
Dual WIN/MAC CD
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Spin Works 2.2
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$55
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A
great little software tool for Primary teachers! Generate your
own worksheets for the classroom - quickly and easily.
Includes a FREE Site Licence for your school!
It includes improvements to the Cloze exercises as requested
by many teachers, and now also recognises PM Maths text files.
SpinWorks Version 2.2 is now fully Windows XP and Mac OS X compliant.
[More information]
All Teachers
Dual WIN/MAC CD
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Word Wizard
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$89.95 schools
/ $69.95 home
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Word Wizard is a comprehensive, Australian spelling and
vocabulary program that is used and recommended by parents,
teachers, tutors, speech therapists and psychologists.
Word Wizard uses sound, text and visual cues to teach and reinforce
spelling and vocabulary skills including phonics, homophones,
plurals, prefixes, suffixes and much more.
This software is suitable for students of all ages and ability,
particularly those with learning difficulties and reading problems.
It is particularly helpful to students who are dyslexic, or who
have ADD, ADHD, or short-term memory problems.
[More information
and pictures]
Ages 5 to Adult
Dual WIN/MAC CD
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