Let your kids use your computer. They see a blank green screen, and you may just let them play with the keyboard. They see and hear the letter sounds they press. If they press space after a word, it prounounces the word correctly rather than phonetically.
They can use backspace and change letters to get it to sound exactly right, and try to make the computer talk to them.
There are checkbox options to make the computer say the classical letter names instead of the phonetic sounds. If they manage to type a sentence followed by a period, it will read out the sentence in appropriate intonation, and then the sentence will disappear so they can write more.
The 30 day trial version is fully enabled.
Other check-box options include making it say the words but not the letter sounds, or to make it only read the whole sentence and not the individual words. The philosophy of this program is that there is no need of a 'theme' or 'game.' Kids love being able to use the computer, and in a few hours of play they will learn more than many months in school. Further information is at http://www.goldengem.co.uk/WriteTalk.html.
Sounding Keyboard and Mouse It Lets you hear magic sound when you press keys or click mouse. The program allows you to hear the sound or the words which you want to hear after your typing or clicking.With TTS Engine, Program can vocalise the text you are typing.( softboy.net )
Animated Beginning Phonics Designed for beginning readers (pre-K to 2nd grade), it covers upper and lower case letters, beginning and ending sounds, middle short vowel sounds and beginning reading words. A game room rewards success.
RocketReader Kids RocketReader Kids teaches children ages 3 to 7 to read by helping them to confidently master whole word recognition skills. Uses a unique mix of phonics and sight word training to quickly develop a child's recognition of the 1000 most popular words.
BabyPiano This program let you way to entertain your kids by using your computer keyboard. This software gives you: simple keyboard locking for kids, simple 21-instruments piano, absolutely calm about your opened documents
ABC Baby Piano This program let you way to entertain your kids by using your computer keyboard. This software gives you: simple keyboard locking for kids, simple 21-instruments piano, absolutely calm about your opened documents. ABC feature is very useful too.
Sound Pilot Sound Pilot adds typewriter sounds to the computer keyboard. It creates the romantic sound atmosphere of the time of Remingtons. With every touch of the keyboard, there is a new sound. This makes the process of typing interesting and entertaining.
American English Pronunciation Patterns Pronunciation Patterns has over 100 phonics rules and groups 4,000 words by phonetic patterns to help you practice English pronunciation and learn new English words.
MyABCD MyABCD is an animated, educational, children's program which includes the alphabet, numbers to 20, 18 simple games and 10 musical instruments. It contains original music, sound effects and animation which pre-schoolers will learn from and enjoy.
Keyboard Sounder Play 3D sound effect when a keyboard button or mouse key is pressed.
Amy's Games These three games are aimed at pre-schoolers, toddlers and babies wanting to start using the computer. We have included an interactive coloring book, a memory matching game, and a colorful keyboard banger in the collection.
Letter Chase Typing Tutor 3.71 Letter Chase Typing Tutor is a full featured typing program that uses a visual method to teach the location of the keys. Letter Chase also includes new and unique features to help experienced typists type even faster. Letter Chase requires a Pentium or faster computer with a 256 color or better graphics.
