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!
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.