textThing PLUS
by Topologika Software Ltd
A unique package that creates interactive text-based activities in minutes - using any text!
New version!
textThing PLUS builds activities for word, sentence and text level work quickly and with no fuss. It takes just three clicks to start any one of the ten activities, whether you choose one of the texts provided, your own Notepad, Word or web documents.
The suite of activities covers re-building text letter-by-letter and word-by-word, grammatical awareness, spelling, sentence construction, Cloze procedure and punctuation. You can even generate unlimited word searches and crossword puzzles based on the selected text!
More than 100 starter texts are provided, including poems, tales, recipes, articles, descriptions, letters, points of view, instructions, official documents and extracts from Shakespeare, Alice in Wonderland and Aesop’s Fables. Your own files can, of course, be saved for re-use, and all can be printed for homework.
textThing PLUS’ ten Literacy-based activities are:
- Punctuation and capital letters – put
them back
- Spelling – graduated ‘look, cover, write’ tests
- Cloze – missing words
- Crosswords – automatic clues!
- Word Searches – variable size and direction
- Scrambled words – un-mix letters in mixed-up words
- Prediction – recreate an extract word-by-word
- Sequencing – sort the sentences in a scrambled paragraph
- Disclosure – recreate scrambled text letter-by-letter
- Reading Accuracy – only one sentence isn’t nonsense
textThing PLUS includes a Quick Start Guide, a Handbook, a Supplied texts sheet, and Question sheet examples.
“One of textThing’s great strengths is that teachers can configure it to very precise parameters, another that it can accommodate any texts teachers like.” – ICT for Education
“This is great value for money. Possibly the ultimate DART (Directed Activities Related to Text.) You can use the many texts which come with the program or you may use your own texts related to on-going work.” – Simon Midgley, Rhyddings School
“Ideal for Primary and KS3/4 pupils and even adults, textThing seems excellent value for money as it provides so much for both teacher and pupil combining many activities into one program that have only been available in individual programs in the past.” Victoria Crivelli, BDA (British Dyslexia Association)
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System Requirements
- Windows
- Operating System: Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 (32-bit)
- Minimum Processor: Any Pentium or equivalent
- Operating System: Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, Vista, Windows 7 (32-bit)
textThing PLUS is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Mid Primary
- Upper Primary
- Secondary School
- Adult
textThing PLUS is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Literacy
Users can access textThing PLUS in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Keyboard
- IntelliKeys
- Touchscreen
- Single Switch
For more information on "textThing PLUS" read the following articles:
- textThing Review by Victoria Crivelli from the BDA (www.bdadyslexia.org.uk)
- textThing Evaluation by TEEM (www.teem.org.uk)
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