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Overview of All 7 CISPL Programs
CUSTOMIZED INTEGRATED SPELLING and Phonetical LIBRARY
(CISPL) is designed to enrich any spelling curriculum with
animated games,graphically enhanced drills, computer-
generated worksheets, and computer-graded tests to produce
a comprehensive computer-assisteds pelling curriculum. The
CISPL can be used with any words. THE CUSTOMIZER program
creates the word files and voice files shared by the other
CISL programs ANTS, CUSTOM SPELL, SCRAMBLE, WORDFIND,SAVE
THE GATOR, and SEAWORD.
SEAWORD
SEAWORD is also an animated instructional game where
one or two players dive for sunken treasure in marine-
inhabited waters by guessing letters to spell a customized
list word. When two players play, the object is to see who
can get the most treasure chests. When one player plays,
he must spell the word before running out of oxygen and
having to surface. The first time a student guesses a
letter, the scuba diver jumps off into the water. Every
time a student successfully guesses another letter, the
diver goes deeper and one of ten marine creatures swim
across the screen with accompanying music. When the word
is finally spelled, the winning diver finishes diving to
the bottom of the ocean, retrieves the treasure chest,
surfaces, and stashes his treasure chest aboard the boat.
SAVE THE GATOR
SAVE THE GATOR is an animated variation of the old
blackboard game HANGMAN. However, in SAVE THE GATOR the
student tries to save a dandy gator from the gallows by
guessing all the letters of a word. If the student
successfully spells the word, the gator is set free. The
gator then uses his freedom to go swimming, ride a
skateboard, roller-skate, ice-skate, conduct an orchestra,
play soccer, play badminton, or go skiing. If the student
doesn't spell the word correctly, the gate on the gallows
drops. Luckily, the rope breaks and the gator plummets to
the ground. There he informs the student he might become a
purse, a pair of shoes, a belt, etc. unless the student
spells the next word correctly. Missed words are reused.
WORDFIND
WORDFIND prints a wordfind. WORDFIND like all
wordfinds uses all 26 letters plus it uniquely utilizes the
following four characters: the period (.), the hyphen (-),
the apostrophe ('), and the space ( ). If any word in the
wordfind contains any of these four characters, these
characters automatically become part of the random
selection of characters which surround the words in the
wordfind.
SCRAMBLE
SCRAMBLE prints worksheets using scrambled words.
ANTS
ANTS is a graphic game where the child unscrambles
spelling words by controlling an animated ant. The object
of the game is to drag the letters into anthills and spell
a specific word. The letters for that word are scattered
at random across the computer's screen. Letters are
snatched by the ant's pincers and then dragged into
anthills. If the word is spelled before time runs out, Ant
City is built. If the word is not spelled before time runs
out, a gigantic tennis shoe comes crashing down and ...,
well let's just say the ant isn't too happy with your
ability to spell.
CUSTOM SPELL
CUSTOM SPELL can help your child learn to spell and
read. CUSTOM SPELL comes with several lists which contain
some of the basic phonetical skills your child needs.
CUSTOM SPELL utilizes the three basic options, Pretest,
Drill, and Posttest, found in almost every spelling
curriculum.
The Pretest option gives a test and then has a
diagnostic component that drills your child over the words
they misspelled.
The Drill option drills your child over all the words.
Finally the Posttest option tests the child and gives
a percentage grade. The Posttest option also stores your
child's scores in a file that can printed later for easy
record keeping.
You can utilize different sound devices (Sound Blaster
or compatible, Disney Sound Source, DigiSpeech, IBM Speech
Adapter) but CUSTOM SPELL works fine without any sound.
THE CUSTOMIZER (Sold Separately)
The CUSTOMIZER is the master utility program that
enables you to create up to 60 word lists and record a
voice file for each list. You can customize the word
lists to your children's weekly spelling list. You can
use basic sight vocabulary word lists, high-frequency
word lists, and word lists which teach specific
phonetical skills. You can use any words as long as
they are 15 characters of less. You can utilize every
letter in the alphabet(upper and lower case) and also
the period(.), the hyphen(-), a space( ), and the
apostrophe('). Both the word and voice files are saved
and can be applied at any time in any of the following
Customized Integrated Library programs: ABCORDER, ANTS,
CUSTOM SPELL, GUIDEWORD, SAVE THE GATOR, SCRAMBLE,
SEAWORD, and WORDFIND. When using voice files recorded
by the CUSTOMIZER, all you need to do is select a list
and the voice file is automatically attached. The
Customizer truly customizes all eight programs to your
basic educational needs.
Earl Paul TeBockhorst
5023 W. 120th Ave.
Suite 290
Broomfield, CO 80020
CompuServe Email 72254,3107