MKP - Assistive Software Products - Primary Education

Many teachers are looking for cross-curricular Literacy activities that are challenging to all abilities, so textThing aims to help you provide them in seconds. It will load your text - from disk, from the Clipboard or web pages, or from one of the 100+ texts provided on the CD - and generates nine unique Literacy activities quickly and easily.

These are:

Letter-by-letter - Recreate the text a letter at a time (disclosure)
Word-by-word - Rebuild the text word-by-word (prediction)
Scrambled words - Turn jumbled letters into words to unscramble the text
Scrambled sentences - Find the correct sentence among several nonsense ones
Spelling tests - Test spelling in graduated tests using the loaded text
Sort text - Sort the sentences until the sequence makes sense
Punctuate - Put back the missing capital letters and punctuation
Fill the blanks - Enter the missing words (cloze procedure)
Print word puzzles - Print crosswords and word searches

Additionally, the program's two interfaces help match the work to the user. The 'Primary' interface is ideal for younger children, while the more grown-up 'Adult' style suits secondary and ABE learners. Texts supplied with the pack include poems, tales and stories, recipes, articles, descriptive texts, letters, points of view, instructions and official documents, and there are even extracts from Shakespeare, Alice in Wonderland, Wind in the Willows, Aesops fables and Indian Tales.

textThing allows you to customise the activities for individuals or groups of students, providing full control over difficulty levels so that you can differentiate between them. You can even save 'Options' for a particular student so that just the right text is loaded next time, with just the right options, e.g. particular letter groups.