Sentence Starters Published by Teacher Support Software Age Group: Age 4 to 8, Age 8 and Up Type: Language Arts License: Free demo, $69.95 to buy

Complete a set of sentence starters on a particular topic. Either add your own words or pick from a list of possible endings. Pick fonts, sizes, colors and style of letters, and select pictures (or import your own) to match your text. Make your own personal work of art.

The full program has 40 categories and over 250 pictures. The demo has 1 category in each of the topics Animals & Nature, People & Places, Seasons & Holidays, and Things I Like To Do. There are about 5 pictures per category.

After choosing a topic, select a category, like Summer from Seasons and Holidays. A sentence starter appears, for example 'In summer it is...'. Finish the sentence or select from a set of possible endings. Then go on to the next 'In summer I like to ...', 'In summer I play...', 'Sometimes my family and I...' and 'Summer is...'.

Include a picture from a set of 5 choices, change the color, style and size of the words, or have your sentence spoken. I had trouble with the speech until I turned off HEK3000 in Speech Settings.

My 8 year old enjoyed writing and printing his story about Summer. This program encourages reluctant writers by making it easy to get started!

Ages 6 up

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Filename: SS_Demo.sit.hqx

Filesize: 553 k

Download Sites:

US : http://www.tssoftware.com/