Texas Instruments Speak & Spell Mode D'emploi page 2

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Dear Parent,
magine your child bringing home a spelling book every night and
enjoying each lesson. At the Texas Instruments Learning Center, we
believe that spelling practice can be fun
children can enjoy it as much as a game. That's what we had in
mind when we created your Speak & SpellTM learning aid.
Like almost all electronic devices for children, Speak & Spell is
fascinatingand fun! But there's a big difference. Speak & Spell is
designed, first of all, to help your child learn. From the first moment
it was conceived, Speak & Spell was built around the objective of
providing children with genuine learning in the critical skill area of
spelling. Speak & Spell is the result of a very advanced technology
called speech synthesis, which lets children hear a word pronounced
correctly as they learn to recognize and spell it. Important additional
phrases are included for praise and reinforcement, helping your
child to actually want to learn to spell word after word. A bright,
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colorful book is included, packed full of activities in a game-like
format, that adds to the learning fun.
To make Speak & Spell a valuable learning tool, we work
closely with expert language arts educators. They are constantly
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helping us design a broad spelling systemthat's flexible enough to
grow with your child and corresponds to what is usually being
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taught in the classroom The Speak & Spell system also allows for
progress at your child's own pace. More than 15() of the most
critical stumbling blocks to spelling development — words your child
has probably already had trouble with
Spell learning unit. But that's just the beginning.
Whole new vocabularies are available in modules that simply
plug into your Speak & Spell. These are designed to sustain the
challenge of Speak & Spell and maintain your child's interest. A
number of these are available now; more are in development. These
modules (sold separately) contain words that focus on specific
spelling areas like verb endings, homonyms, plurals and possessives,
and vowel problems. Grade level ranges are suggested for each
module — to serve as a guide for your purchase — but the system
of modules can be used in any sequence to provide valuable
review, or an extra challenge for all children.
The Staff of the Learning Center here at Texas Instruments is
committed to producing
today's latest technologies to provide fun-filled learning for your
child. These products offer an exceptional opportunity for you, also
— to share your child's learning experiences. It is our hope that
you'll enjoy Speak & Spell together with your child, and look for
other learning aids from our growing family of Learning Center
products.
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