Write:OutLoud®

Your struggling students find writing frustrating for a variety of reasons, including their limitations in spelling, vocabulary, organization, mechanics, penmanship and confidence. This frustration leads to a cycle of failure because students don't want to try. You can help students overcome these barriers with Write:OutLoud, the award-winning word processor that supports the writing process by reading text out loud as students write. See your students revise and edit for the first time because they get consistent and immediate auditory feedback that helps them monitor their progress. Write:OutLoud is vital to every stage of writing-from capturing brainstorms to research during prewriting to drafting and editing to final proofing. You can customize the amount of support to meet the needs of multiple students. You'll see the dramatic improvements in writing as you assess your students' writing portfolios throughout the year.

Customizable features allow teachers to meet the needs of multiple students with varying skill levels Sentence and paragraph feedback connects written and spoken words so students can complete their thoughts independently and write to the main idea Auditory feedback makes revising for mechanics manageable because your students listen for correct subject-verb agreement, consistent tense inflections and omitted or misplaced words Immediate auditory and visual cues for misspelled words allow for immediate self-correction Franklin Spell Checker and Dictionary with Homonym Checker have speech to provide complete resources for editing drafts for specific purposes, such as standard usage and appropriate word choice Imports and reads scanned text, text from the Internet and CD-ROM files, giving students access to information they might not be able to read

Grade-A word support built right in
Don Johnston Incorporated, the originator of the talking spell checker, has added the Franklin Spell Checker and Dictionary with Homonym Checker to Write:OutLoud because they are the teachers' choice for spelling intervention. Struggling students now have unmatched support for spelling and choosing words with a spell checker, dictionary and homonym checker that talks!

• The Franklin Spell Checker recognizes phonetic spellings of irregular words so students don't give up and substitutes simpler words that are easier to spell
• The Franklin Dictionary, with more than 100,000 words, provides short, concrete definitions so students can look up words, even if they don't know how to spell them
• The Franklin Homonym Checker, included as part of the Franklin dictionary, distinguishes between homonyms and other "confusables" so students can select the right word choices