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Characteristics of Good Early Childhood Software Software Review Software That Promotes Early Literacy Title Publisher Topic AppleWorks Apple Desktop Publishing, Draw, Paint, Database and Presentation Bailey's Book House Edmark Explores letters, words, sentences, rhyming and stories First Connections Golden Book Encyclopedia Jostens Learning Corporation Primary Multimedia Encyclopedia The Graph Club Tom Snyder Primary Graphing Software HyperStudio Roger Wagner Publishing Multimedia creation and presentation Inspiration Inspiration Software Brainstorming, Prewriting,, Organizing, Outlining,, Visualization, Concept Mapping Instant Reader Harcourt Brace Electronic Books with word work and phonics activities Let's Go Read! An Island Adventure Edmark Interactive reading and readiness activities Kid Pix 2 Broderbund Introductory Multimedia My First Incredible Amazing Dictionary DK Multimedia Multimedia Dictionary Netscape Netscape Communications Web Browser Stanley's Sticker Stories Edmark Create animated stories! Tenth Planet Explores Literacy Sunburst Each title explores phonics and decodingstrategies. Students can reflect on activities in a journal. Student Writing Center Learning Company, Inc. Word Processing and Desktop Publishing Top of Page Software Reviews NAEYC Position Statement Technology and Young Children (ages 3-8) Descriptions of Software Provided to Grant Schools   Characteristics of Good Early Childhood Software The key to software being a valuable teaching tool is that it presents concepts and skills at the level a child is ready to learn using a method that reflects that child's interests and needs. open-ended exploratory children control the program contains problem solving full of concrete representations which function realistically has built in success Research shows that children exposed to developmentally appropriate software make significant gains in: intelligence nonverbal skills structural knowledge long-term memory complex manual dexterity When concrete experiences are combined with developmentally appropriate software children also show significant gains in: verbal skills problem solving abstraction conceptual skills   Top of Page

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