Home Computing Weekly


Words, Words, Words

Categories: Review: Software
Author: B.J.
Publisher: A.S.K.
Machine: Commodore Vic 20

 
Published in Home Computing Weekly #18

Children do have fantastic imaginations. If they use them for making up a story and making up for the limitations of Vic graphics, they'll love this program.

The idea is to practise spelling for five-eight year-olds using scenes chosen from a street, farm, city, orchard, field meadow, house or castle.

Objects appear, and if you complete the line "I see a..." with the correctly-spelled word the object joins the scene.

You're allowed two goes and a certain number of alternatives are permitted: man or farmer, lorry or truck. While some objects are easy to identify, some are more problematic. Is it a man or a boy, dog or cat and is that *really* meant to be an ant?

For the adult assistant, there is a dictionary of the 50 or so words that appear.

B.J.

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