Step 6: Speaking and Writing |
| LANGUAGE! instructional focus | Kurzweil 3000 | What to use...with Windows computers | What to use...with Macintosh computers |
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| Develop communication skills in writing | Uses the talking word processor to provide auditory feedback while composing and revising work. | Main toolbar:
New and Read buttons
 
view video | Starting Point and Reader toolbar:
New and Read buttons
 
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| Develop editing skills | Provides a speaking spell check with auditory, as well as visual input about written spelling in written compositions | Write toolbar:
spell check button
view video | Write toolbar:
spell check button.
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| Increase written verbal fluency | Provides word prediction capabilities. | Write toolbar:
word prediction button
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word prediction button
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| Prepare to write by gathering and organizing information into an outline from selected text information | Extracts highlighted text into a WORD document. | Study skills toolbar:
Highlighter and Extract Anns buttons
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Highlighter buttons
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