Focus multimedia Excelling at spelling review

Verdict:

Review Date: 22 Jun 2005

Price when reviewed: inc VAT

Our Rating 4 stars out of 5

Review
Specs

This program is refreshingly honest and doesn't try to hide its goal of expanding vocabulary and achieving accurate spelling.

Although the box states Key Stage 1, 2 and 3 (ages five to 13) it actually goes beyond this. The program has 10 levels of increasing difficulty, and a list of 'My Worst Words' gives the pupil plenty of practice in problem areas. The program's database contains over 3,500 words, and you can add more, although you'll need a microphone to add the pronunciation and verbal clues.

Activities include Spelling, where you hear a word and its meaning and type letters into the boxes, crosswords, anagrams, a version of hangman and Wordmaker, where a word is displayed and you score points for making as many other words as possible from its letters. A Progress Chart, Parents' Guide and Teacher Mode round off this polished software, which is suitable for the classroom and the home.

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