Benefits of Dr. Peet's TalkWriter

Students transition naturally from nonreaders to alphabet wizards to writers,
and they do it with a unique blend of whole language and phonics!

Key Benefits:

Dr. Peet's TalkWriter has real human voices (the Peets themselves!) to sing the alphabet songs and beautiful photo quality pictures to go with the letters. Talk/Writer word processor is teacher-configurable:

adjustable letter size, font, format, and color
button menus that prompt users with human voices (sung, spoken, or off)
switch-scanned letter blocks for physically-challenged writers (on/off)
"double-touch" for those with visual challenges (on/off)
an editable Picture Dictionary for favorite words (Windows only)
E-mail wizard for internet-safe letter writing and e-mailing (Windows only)
choice of synthesized voices, from human-sounding male, female, adult or child to gallactic robot (Mac only)
spellchecker with options for speech support (Mac only)
individual student workplaces, with sign-ons
templating tools to make and transfer fill-in-the-blanks writing activities

The manual includes Dr. Peet's sequenced lesson suggestions: from pre-writing to experience stories, from story starters and templating to brainstorming process.

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