Picture Phonics with Easy Track
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Attn: Education Technology Services - Internet Division
Fax: 866-539-6077
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Tel: 570-459-1400
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Education Technology Services - Internet Division
8 West Broad Street
Suite 304
Hazleton, PA 18201
Item Description:
Picture Phonics is an Early Learning Program for Grades K – 1. Picture Phonics is published by Micrograms Software and is available in different configurations to fit your needs.
In Picture Phonics pronunciations by a speech therapist and easy-to-grasp program tasks help children enhance their abilities to connect sounds with letters. After completing an activity sequence of 10, 20 or 30 pictures, children advance to one of six different Create-a-Picture reward screens. There they continue to develop phonics skills while having fun building a picture of their own.
Picture Phonics begins with Preschool Picture Play. This activity provides a first computer experience for young pre-readers. Pressing a letter key causes a picture and a word to appear. The word is pronounced by the speech therapist. It begins with the letter that was pressed. Children discover that each letter key is associated with a specific item and word. They see their favorite pictures and hear the words by remembering the right keys to press. To see the wagon, they must press W.
When children begin understanding that sounds are associated with various letters, they are ready for the Beginning Consonants activities. Activity #1 (not pictured) focuses on a single teacher-specified consonant. The child is shown a picture of an easily recognizable object, and its name is pronounced. The task is to indicate by answering "YES" or "NO" whether the specified consonant makes the beginning sound of the pictured object.
Activites 2, 3, and 4 become progressively more challenging. In Activity #2, the child is presented with a colorful picture and three large consonants. The name of the pictured object is pronounced. (See the "tiger" screen.) The child uses the Space Bar or mouse to select the consonant which represents the initial sound of the pictured object.
For Activity #3 (pictured at right), the child uses the Space Bar or mouse to select which of four words identifies the picture. Children should focus on the beginning consonant to find the correct answer. In Activity #4, the student is shown a picture and given a word with the beginning consonant missing. The word is pronounced. The child enters the missing consonant from the keyboard to complete the word.
Flexible options allow teachers to choose which letters to focus on, or to review any specified set of letters.
Beginning Consonants includes the four main activities described above on this page. A similar range of activites are available for Ending Consonants, Beginning Blends and Digraphs, Ending Blends and Digraphs, Short Vowels, and Long Vowels. Vowels Long, Short, and Silent and three levels of difficulty within the Cumulative Phonics Review complete the program. Picture Phonics keeps students busy with a wide range of activities working productively on the road to becoming early readers.
Assorted activities and multiple levels of difficulty are offered in each of the following areas:
Additional activities include:
Requirements for Windows:
Micrograms products compatible with Easy Track run under all the Windows operating systems listed above. Network versions can be served off of Windows 2003, Windows 2000, Windows NT, and Novell (>3.x) servers; or they can be run from the local hard drives of individual workstations and/or stand-alone machines. We offer nothing, at present, designed for Cytrix, other terminal servers, or the "CD tower" environment. We offer no web-based products.
Program Requirements for Macintosh:
Programs with Easy Track
Programs without Easy Track
Network* and Site License
*NT Server, 2000 Server, 2003 Server, Novell 4, 5, 6, AppleShare, OS X Server
*Micrograms programs with The Easy Track Management System are available in OS X native versions. These programs run on AppleShare networks, OS X Server networks, and from Macintosh partitions on Windows-based networks.
Micrograms products compatible with Easy Track run on OS 10 native and OS 9. However, Easy Track itself runs only on OS 10. Easy Track itself DOES NOT RUN on OS 9. This means that while our programs with theEasy Track management can be used on a network with both OS 10 (including Intel Core Duo) and OS 9 machines, teachers must use an OS 10 machine to access student records or set program options with Easy Track. Network Macintosh program versions can be served off of Windows 2003, Windows 2000, and Novell servers with Macintosh partitions, as well as from Macintosh machines running OS 10 Server. They also can be run from the local hard drives of individual workstations and/or stand-alone machines. While Micrograms programs run fine in hardwired Macintosh computer labs, we do not presently recommend their use with AirPort.
Windows Vista, XP, 2000, 98 running on PC's < 6 years old.
Mac OS 10.5.3 Leopard to OS 9 running on Macs < 6 years old, including Intel Core Duo machines with Rosetta.
Mac OS 10.2.8 Classic to OS 8.6 running on PowerMacs or above.
A Network/Site License permits unlimited use of the program on all compatible computers within a school. This includes both networked machines and stand-alone machines. Unlike the Single Station, School, and Lab Pack versions, the Network/Site License version DOES NOT USE CD's while the program is running.
The schoolwide Network/Site License from Micrograms offers outstanding software value because it is a reasonably-priced, one-time purchase, enabling use of the program on all compatible machines throughout the school building from now on.
Buy ANY Micrograms Network/Site License, and get a second Network/Site License (of equal or lesser value at the same school) for 50% OFF!
