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Writing and creativity program that inspires and empowers young writers
Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center is a powerful writing and creativity tool designed to stimulate and support children as they learn to write. Gives young writers exciting technological tools to use in writing, illustrating, and presenting their ideas with clarity and imagination. Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center combines an easy-to-use word processor with creativity tools enhanced by special educational features. Students can transform them into multimedia presentations complete with sound, music, and animation. Cross-curricular student activities in the Teacher's Guide help reinforce the five steps of the writing process.
Paint your own pictures, or add clip art, photos, sound, music, and animation to brilliant backgrounds such as Tropical Rain Forest, Southwestern Desert, Pacific Ocean, and Space. Also, you are provided with interesting facts about each background. It shows this program to be for ages 6-10, but as you will see within the highlights, it is pretty involved and even adults can benefit from all that this program has to offer!
Create:
* Reports
* Illustrated storybooks
* Newsletters
* Journals
* Signs
* Poems
PRODUCT FEATURES:
Easy-to-use word processor
1,000 writing projects and ideas
Spoken help on the writing process
900 Clipart pictures and borders
150 sound clips and 40 animations to add to your documents
Paint program
Spelling checker
Animation
Sound and music
Colorful graphics
Inspiring ideas
Interactive characters
Fonts in a variety of sizes, styles, and colors
Easy cut, copy and paste
Children's dictionary and thesaurus
Multiple column layouts
Import text and graphics
EDUCATIONAL FEATURES:
"Did You Know Facts" Include:
* What is Prewriting
* What is Brainstorming
* What should I think about before I start writing
* How do I choose an idea
* What is an audience
* What does purpose mean
* How do I get information
* What should I do when I interview someone
* What do I need to know about drafting
* What is drafting
* How do I start drafting
* What should I do about my audience
* What should I do about my purpose
* What should I do if I get stuck
* What is revising
* How do I start revising
* How can I tell if my writing makes sense
* Should I ask other people for help
* How do I figure out where to start new paragraphs
* How can can the dictionary help me
* How can the the sources help me
* How will I know whether I left something out
* How do I figure what to take it out
* What is editing
* How should I get started editing
* Should I ask other people for help
* What kind of mistakes should I look for
* What is presenting
* What will different fonts and style do for my writing
* Should I add sound and music to my work
* Should I add color
* How can I share my work
* Mistakes Lots of People Make
Various words that sound alike (e.g., accept, except, by buy, its, it's, etc.)
Capitalization
Commas
* Idea Organizers
Cluster
List
Observation Chart
Outline
Story Map
Topic Focuser
and more
* Models to think about
Bibliography
Biography
Book Report
Business Letter
Character Sketch
Comparison Contrast
Description
Friendly Letter
Instructions
Journal Entry
New Story
Personal Narrative
Persuasive Writing
Research Report
Rhyming Poems
Scene from a Play
Story
Minimum System Requirements
Windows 95, 98, Me, XP (Vista -as tested by Children's Software Online)
Macintosh OS 7.0.1 to 9.2, OS X Classic mode
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Product Details
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1270 |
| Availability: |
In Stock |
| Product Weight:
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0.5 lbs. |
| Packaging: |
Jewel Case |
| Shipping Status: |
Usually ships same business day |
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