Weekly Speller

An excellent way to promote and encourage children or adults to practice weekly spelling lists. Quickly input and optionally record spelling lists that can be immediately used for spelling practice or playing games. Report Cards allow parents or teachers to monitor progress. Choose between Youth and Adult modes. Sound support for encouragement and mistakes makes spelling lessons fun for children or adults.

Weekly Speller does a straightforward job when it comes to inputting and practicing weekly spelling lists. Its bright colors and visually uncluttered look makes it appealing to children of all ages. The advantage of Weekly Speller is the ease of creating your own spelling lists for practice or to input weekly spelling words being studied at school. Its intent is to make spelling practice homework fun and entertaining while being drilled on spelling words.

Activities include Words, Sentence Correct and Sentence Complete. Games include Word Scramble, Word Join and Word Search. Each activity uses your personal spelling lists, usually the weekly spelling list from school. The spelling list is input using the Spelling List Editor and you can optionally record your spelling words so you can hear them being dictated. The Spelling List Editor lets you input your spelling words, you can also input two misspellings of the word and a sentence that contains the word for use with the various activities and games. The Spelling List Editor has a Text-In option that lets you import spelling words from text files. Multiple options allow you to set the options most appropriate for the student's age, i.e., Word View, Word Preview, Word Flash or Voice Only. Other options include Word Flash Delay, Alphabet Display, Menu Display Graphics, Hall of Fame, Match Case, Sound on/off, Enable or Disable Sign-in and *.wav File Usage. Weekly Speller takes the drudgery out of weekly spelling list practice. Have some fun while practicing your spelling homework with Weekly Speller.

What is new in this release:

Version 2.0:

• Sample.spl one of the sample spelling lists now has recorded *.wav audio files to assist evaluation of program.
• Review Spelling List has a new format.
• Quick help for activities improved.
• Additional support for Large Fonts at 120 DPI.
• Stop Current Sound added to option menu and command button added to main screen.
• Two new options added, Enable Sign-In and Enable Sign-In Sound.
• Spelling List Editor now highlights words when using Wave Audio playback of current word or entire spelling list.
• Spelling List Editor / Wave Audio menu now has a Stop Playback option.
• Front end menu color and highlight changes.
• Spelling List Editor start-up help note option change.
• Additional activity graphics.
• Hall of Fame plays national anthems.
• Wave file usage more user friendly for recording your personal *.wav files.
• Improved font usage to fix choppy fonts in activities.
• Minimum screen resolution of 1024 X 768 required.
• Various fixes and improvements.

Limitations:

Limited functionality