Ink jet paper designed for color printers will give you and your students the best result. These pages use regular letter-size paper and are printed in the portrait orientation. If you prefer a color page for your students or to laminate it for multiple use, it is highly recommended you use ink jet paper. Laser printers utilizing laser paper print high-quality black and white pages.
Printers:
Ink Jet: Ink jet printers vary in how they put the ink on the paper and the amount of ink that is used. The quality of the finished product is related to the higher number of dots per inch (dpi) used when printing. 300-360 dpi will produce an acceptable page in most printers. 720-1400 dpi will give a superior product. Faster speeds of printing as well as lower quality of printing (draft vs. proof) generally produce a lesser quality page. Please check your printer by trying different dpi, different speeds of printing, and/or different quality before selecting the settings you wish to print for Companion Activities.
Laser printers: Laser printers will give an exceptional black and white image.
How to print:
You can use any program which supports pict files (Macintosh) or bmp files (Windows) to print the pages. Some word processing, paint, or draw programs such as ClarisWorks, Word Perfect, Corel Draw, or Adobe Photoshop will work well.
Macintosh Users: SimpleText for Macintosh is included in this CD. It supports picts files and can be used.
1. Click on the CD icon. Open the folders and display the page you wish to print.
2. Click on File and scroll down to print.
Windows 95 Users: Windows uses bmp files. Windows 95 can print these pages through the Imaging program included in Windows 95.
1. From the Start Bar, open Programs, then Accessories and finally Imaging.
2. Now click File, Open, My Computer, your CD drive, Books and then whichever theme you wish to use, and finally the page you wish to print.
Windows 3.1 Users: Windows uses bmp files. Windows 3.1 can print these pages through the Paint Program included in Windows 3.1 .
Please note: pages printed through Windows Paint will be approximately 25% smaller than the full letter -size page. Images will be of lesser quality when utilizing Paint Program or enlargements.
1. Open Program Manager, double click Accessories, then Paintbrush.
2. Under File, click Open.
3. Under Drive, select your CD drive.
4. Double click on Books, then the theme you wish to open.
5. Double click on the file name you wish to print.
6. Once the image is displayed on your computer screen, select Print and then Ok.
Optional for 3.1 Users: To print almost full-size pages via your Paint Program, under File use Page Setup to set your margins at .01” (top, bottom, right and left). Then under File select Print and change the Scaling to 135%.
Mini-Books:
Books are a great way to expand upon the language skills in Teach Me To Talk. This Talk Companion Activity CD provides Mini-Books for you to print out for your students, offering them another medium to reinforce language skills, expand their vocabulary through Nouns & Animals, or introduce concepts including: Big & Little, Colors, Functions, What Goes With (adult & baby animal pairing), Same & Different and Plurals.
Initially you may want to use the Mini-Books to elicit student recognition of a word (i.e. “Show me the cow.”), imitation of a teacher’s pronunciation of that word (i.e. “Can you say cow?”) or to reinforce the student’s emerging language skill (“You said cow. That’s right, this is a cow!”)
Two of the Mini-Books offered on this CD are full, letter-size pages when printed (Same/Different & What Goes With). The remainder are designed as half, letter-size pages. They will print out 2 half-pages per sheet of printer paper. Each of the Mini-Books is organized within the computer folder from the easiest to the most difficult.
Assembly
We recommend printing out the pages you wish to use; cutting them to size; using rubber cement to affix them to tag board, card stock or construction paper; and then laminating them for durability and various manners of use. After lamination, you can bind the Mini-Books with rings, yarn or plastic book binding by punching holes in the side of each page.
Uses of books
• Testing books: These mini-books or larger books can be used in your test kit as testing materials. However, if you intend them for use in this manner, they should not also be used as curriculum. If you would like to use them in both manners, keep a few pages to keep as “testing books” and use the remainder as curriculum books.
• Curriculum books: These books can be incorporated into the class curriculum and utilized thematically or whenever the class is learning the concepts presented.
• Individual books: These materials are easily individualized for work with specific students. They may also be sent home for use with parents to reinforce skills learned at school.
Types and Specifications of Books
• Animals -- 44 half pages total. Thirty have one large animal per page. Fourteen display four animals per page.
• Big/Little -- Animal theme: 34 half pages containing one large picture and one small picture.
• Colors -- 28 half pages included. Ten have four colors displayed on a page. Four half pages have three images shown. Fourteen half pages have 2 pictures per page.
• Functions -- 24 half pages included. Some have basic questions, i.e. “What do you wear?” Others pose harder questions for students to answer by selecting one of the pictures displayed.
• What Goes With (Animal theme) -- 15 full-size pages with an animal theme. Students match the adult animal to the correct baby displayed.
• Nouns (Beginning) -- 36 half pages total. 20 pages have one large picture per page. 10 pages have two smaller pictures per page. 6 pages display four pictures each.
• Plurals -- 40 half pages with singular and plural images presented on each page.
• Same/Different (Animal theme) -- 25 same and different full-size pages featuring animals.
