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Co Writer

 

Co:Writer has a 20-year history of helping students write even after nothing else worked. And now Co:Writer 7 is so simple to use you can train teachers in just 30 minutes with our new tutorial and students can get up and writing in seconds. Co:Writer 7 adds new features like testing accommodation supports, data collection, and now supports Mac and Windows on-screen keyboards!

Topic Dictionaries  Click to activate access hundreds of built-in Topic Dictionaries from topics ranging from Alice in Wonderland to Jane Goodall or make your own just by typing the topic name!

Personal Dictionaries  Quickly add words and phrases that pertain to you: the names of your school, your best friends, your street address, or terms from your favorite hobby. Co:Writer 7 makes this easier than ever.

Linguistic Word Prediction  Co:Writer is the only word prediction program to use the context of a whole sentence to predict the next word. This provides the most accurate prediction available-crucial for your most struggling writers. Compare Linguistic Word Prediction to other types of prediction. 

FlexSpell  If your students spell elephant like "lfnt", they will benefit from FlexSpell. It turns around the most egregious spelling errors.

Word Bank  Helpful for students with writer's block, Co:Writer's Word Bank automatically presents a list of topic-specific words whenever a Topic Dictionary is selected. The Word Bank is now available in list view  and our new word cloud view.

Speech Anywhere  Highlight text on-screen and Co:Writer will read it back to you. It works in any application including: MS Word, Google Docs, Open Office, Outlook, Internet Explorer, Firefox, etc.   

Supports the Latest Mac and Windows OS  Co:Writer 7 functions identically on Mac and Windows and is now optimized for the latest operating systems. Windows 8 and Mac OS 10.8 are now supported with version 7.

Network Ready  Now you can save your student's Co:Writer files anywhere on your network, WebDisk or on a USB drive for instant access anywhere.

Train-in-30 Tutorial  Co:Writer 7 so simple, you can train teachers in 30 minutes with our Train-in-30 Tutorial.

n the early 1980s, when Paul Schwejda and Judy McDonald started making word-prediction tools, they felt that any word in the prediction list that was not appropriate was a potential waste of keystrokes. In looking for the best solution, they used grammar-based prediction, in addition to more traditional prediction methods, to make word lists more closely match their vision of perfect prediction. The original Co:Writer program was the first product to incorporate grammar when predicting words. This was the beginning of what is now Co:Writer 7.

Prediction for Struggling Writers

Over the years, Co:Writer became important not only to people with physical disabilities, but also to students struggling to write. When Co:Writer was introduced, Don Johnston Incorporated was active in the United Kingdom. British educators had long used word prediction as an approach for struggling writers. Word prediction with grammar was new, however. British schools adopted Co:Writer and saw the potential.

Word Prediction Affects Word Choice

Struggling writers often do not use the word they want because they do not know how to spell it. What teachers find when they use word prediction with grammar for struggling writers is that students attempt to write with words that they want. Students are also expanding their vocabulary because they are exposed to alternative word choices that are grammatically appropriate. Research continues, but picking out a word from a list of similar words seems to have very positive effects on phonemic awareness and spelling. Sentence composition appears to improve as students work with grammar prediction. This seems to help students create more grammatical sentences.

 

 

 

Windows: Compatible with Windows XP, Vista,7
Mac: Yes Switch Access: No

Recommended for: Speech and Language Therapy

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