The
Fitzroy Talking Stories
This
software does just what a personal tutor would do—only with
infinite patience!
It reads pages, repeats any word on request (in a different voice), lets the student creatively alter or rewrite any story and print it, and play word games with the vocabulary of each story.
Years K to 2
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What are the Fitzroy Readers? The Fitzroy Readers are a popular series of books for helping children learn to read. They are based on a progressive phonic system, making them particularly successful with children whose progress with traditional readers is slow. Each book introduces a new English sound-and-spelling pattern, as well as a few sight words that do not conform to phonic principles. The printed books are available directly from Fitzroy Community School. They also produce other related print materials, including The Fitzroy Word Skills workbooks.
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There are two Fitzroy Talking Stories CDs, each containing twenty books:
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Books 1–10 and 1X–10X (beginner level)
- Books 11–20 and 21–30 (more advanced)
Each CD offers facilities to read and write stories, plus an extra activity to suit the child’s level of skill. All images on the CD versions are in colour, with support for both colour and monochrome printers.
Reading
Children
can hear each story read as often as they like and read along as
they gain confidence. Each word is highlighted as it is read. If
children wish to read by themselves they need only click on an
unfamiliar word to hear it spoken by the computer.
Writing
Children
can write their own version of the stories, then print them with or
without the illustrations. The software can also read their story aloud.
Alphabet
game
An
alphabet game is included on the Books 1–10X CD. This game helps
children relate upper and lower case letters, and match the shapes of
each letter with the corresponding sound and name.
Word
Square
More
experienced readers often enjoy the challenge of a word square, so
software to make word squares has been included on the Books
11–30 CD. Word square puzzles can be solved on the screen, or
printed for off-computer use. The computer speaks the word after the
child clicks on the correct letters in sequence. The words are chosen
from the stories.
Teacher
controls
Many
aspects of the activities can be adjusted to suit students’
needs. Clues can be enabled or disabled, puzzles can be made suitably
challenging, printing facilities can be turned on or off, the stories
available can be restricted to a particular set and so on. Teacher
settings can be protected by a password if necessary.
Format
Pricing
within
Australia
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Fitzroy Talking Readers |
Format |
Single user |
Site licence |
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Books 1 to 10 and 1X to 10X |
Windows + Mac dual format CD |
$176 |
$352 |
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Books 11-30 |
Windows + Mac dual format CD |
$176 |
$352 |