Blake's Spelling Games - Disk 1

Blake’s Spelling Games will improve children’s ability to:

• Understand the alphabet and write words accurately.

• Learn spelling rules and spot mistakes.

• Add correct word endings, and much more …

The games all include Notes for Parents with detailed information about each game’s spelling focus.

Minimum hardware specifications:

Windows Intel® Pentium® III 1.5GHz or faster processor (or equivalent), 1GB of RAM

Macintosh PowerPC® G4 1.8GHZ or faster processor, Intel Core™ Duo 1.83GHz or faster processor, 1GB of RAM

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You may not otherwise copy, print, store or transmit any part of this CD-ROM unless you have written permission from the publisher or a copyright exception applies under the Copyright Act, 1968.

Spectacular Spelling Games CD ROMs contains the following ten games:

Game 1 - Beat the Bomb: Designed to help students develop a keen sense of the recurring patterns in English.

Game 2 - Compound Word Snaps: Reinforces the concept of two words placed together to make one word, a compound word. The player must re-assemble compound words from their components parts.

Game 3 - Hit and Miss: Helps spellers differentiate between words that look alike or sound alike, Some are homophones, but many are just similar. The player must choose one word from a pair of like words to complete a sentence.

Game 4 - Stop the Clock: This game is designed to reinforce the phonic and visual elements of words and to improve vocabulary.

Game 5 - Check Mate: Designed to hone proofreading skills and to further reinforce the correct spelling of both sight words and words that contain recurring patterns in English. This game will also develop visual skills i.e. knowing what words look like when they are correct and when they are incorrect.

Game 6 - Word Works: Reinforces the knowledge that doubled letters usually follow a short vowel and that many two-syllable words follow a cvc/cv pattern. (e.g. nap/kin) (c = consonant, v = vowel.

Game 7 - Quiz master: Designed to reinforce sight words, phonic knowledge, open and closed syllables and multi-syllable words. The game should further develop student vocabulary.

Game 8 - Helping Hands: This game is designed to help students understand how words change to ‘fit’ the grammar (morphemic knowledge).

Game 9 - Two Minute dash: Helps students develop integrated audio/visual skills. As students link the sound of a word to its written components, they are strengthening their visual memory of multi-syllable words.

Game 10 - The Word factory: Designed to help students apply phonic and morphemic knowledge, using both visual and auditory cues.