Step 4: Grammar and Usage |
| LANGUAGE! instructional focus | Kurzweil 3000 | What to use...with Windows computers | What to use...with Macintosh computers |
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| Parts of speech | Allows teachers or students to highlight designated parts of speech and to use the part of speech component of the definition to confirm highlighted words. | Main toolbar:
Highlighter (teacher-selected
color code)
And Main: Definition button
view video | Study skills toolbar: Highlighter
(teacher-selected
color code)
And Reader:
Definition, which is one of the Word Lookup tools
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| Parts of a sentence | Provides an electronic tool to circle the complete subject and the complete predicate in a sentence and to extract the circled components making it possible to use extracted answers to analyze the content of the two components. | Study skills toolbar:
Red and blue circle buttons
view video | Study skills toolbar:
Red and blue circle buttons
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| Identify complete sentences | Allows students to compose sentences, based on the text selection, and receive auditory feedback through the read aloud function. | Write toolbar:
Compose using word process and/or word prediction and Main: Read button
view video | Write toolbar:
Compose using word process and/or word prediction and Reader toolbar: Read button
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