Looking For Words User's Guide
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1. INTRODUCTION fea community exploration program that engages reasoning sis while Vocabulary and eniching reading competence Students can explore tree inviting emironments Community Home snd Schoo In Browse mode students navigate through the envonments to become familar with in diferent surroundings Inst mode students must search fo specic objects in thei appropriate suroundings Student progress can be tacked and printed Vocabulary word pages Can be printed to promote continued practice away rom the computer INSTALLATION AND LAUNCH direct ham the maybe installed your had dive The program must e instale un without CD Windows An AutoPlay menu appears when you inser the Looking fr Words CD Choose and fallow the on sren ntactions the program t our hard ive prefer to run the program from the CO click the Run button the AutoPlay men does not automaticaly appear selec Start than Run and type DaAutoplayene Macintosh A window displaying program icons wil open when you inser the CD this doesnot happen double cick the Icon on the desktop Choose either the nsallcon begin nstaling the program to your hard ive or ck the iconto run the program rom the CD BROWSE When launched the ie screen appears CGickthe Browse button to enter Browse mode athe ist button to enter Browse Mo2. Delay Scanning allows for ey program navigation using Single switch devices othe keyboard instead ofthe mouse Select the Auto Scan Delay between 1 2 and 4 seconds Miscellaneous Options Caps When enabled vocabulary words on the word Ist and the words that appear atthe bottom of he scree when an objects Selected wil appear nal capital ets Note Enabling this sting may prevent some words from appearing on the word st they become oolong to be displayed Quit Sign Enable to place stop sign on the til screen Ts gee users an easy way to ext program Another way to exit the program sto select Quit fromthe File pulldown menu the tle screen Sound Option Speech Music and Sound Effects Enable or disable the sounds Played throughout the program The sound option direct from the Sound pulldown menu on the screen OPTIONS VOCABULARY Use the voeabulary options 1 control which words ae viewable clickable rien the wordt Select Vocabulary fom the Options pull down menu onthe tle screen Stary selecting the active environment ing the Home School and Community check boxesin the bottom let comer ofthescreen Each envionment has eight apes the Pages Use the checkboxes tothe lf ofthe tle to enable or dable pages Each page contains varying quantity of vocabulary words displayed inthe word son the right sie ofthe screen Each wordcan be configured in on
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4. de Browse mode alows students to explore he environment and become familar with the vocabulary objects within them Select an environment to explore by clicking the image ofthe School Home or Community The images become highlighted when the mouse moves over them Community Environment Home Environment School highlight Environment Many objects become animated or pay sound eects when they are ck Sound effects can be sale through the Option Setings seepage Some objects are wanstion objects Cicking anstion objec takes yout a diferent page o environment For example inthe Community on School Street clicking the school building takes you tw the Schoo environment Cicking the school dors aks you tothe Office page within the School Transition objects are not customizable though the voabulay stings You canretumto the envionment selection screen by clicking onthe yellow button inthe lower ight comer Othe screen Once youare back the Environment election screen you may retumto the tle screen by the Stop button Yellow button retumsyouto emironmen election LIST The gli List st locate speci objects which appear na word st on the right ide screen Navigate through the environments o select the tem hat matches the word on te the correct objects elected the Program responds with postie reinforcement fan incoret objects selected youa
5. e ofthefolowing ways Vil ist Random testcase Visible List Never The obec sible but never appearson the werd lst Not Visi The abject ino vile and never appears onthe wordt Visible Not clickable The object I vie but not cable and never appears onthe wordt Cickon the word or checkbox netto the ward to though the settings The check bax changes o indicate the sting The description ofthe sein 5 shown below the wordlist Vocabulary options be saved for future use by clicking the Save button Click the Load button o rtve a previously saved lst Delete saved lst using the Delete button on ether the Load or Save screens Select Print Page to continue voabulary practice aa rm the compute select Print Page to print an image ofthe highlighted page adits coreponding selected word ick OK to activate cent vocabulary choices or ext Before student progres can be tracked the student must be selected onthe Users seen Select Users rom the pul menu th teren The userlist appears onthe eft of the screen To add wer type the ame inthe space provided and click the add button To remove 2 User highlight the name onthe ist and ick the delet burton To ack progress for use highlight the onthe st and OK button Click he none button logging e desire Results of c
6. reallowed to uy agan the Allow Three option is Tochange the highlighted enabled you are only allowed tree word inthe wordlist use find and select the the mouse weickonthe highlighted word After three stas the desredword words removed fom the list Se Option Settings page The word sts generated fom the selected words on the Vocabulary Options screen Results student effort in ist can be tacked and documented Logging 2 SETTINGS be toed to mae the program more challenging To access he program screen choose Settings ram the Options pulldown menu on the tl screen List Mode Options Stop Sign When enabled atop Sign wil appear fist List mode sorento allow usr to ext before all words onthe et ave been located Selected Word First When enabled users mustfnd the Object matching the word on the it When thi option is disabled users can ind any word nthe st regards of which words highlight Allow 3 Strikes This option avaiable only when the Selected Word checked When enabled the program mit the wer to vee find object matching the highlighted word the objects found within three attempts the highlighted werd Is removed from thei o List The items Wt longer its ar wll appear righ sde of the ist if al words are nat wile Auto Scan
7. urrent and previous student sessions may be viewed and printed fom the User Log Select View User Log ram the File pull down menu onthe ie Seen Selecta student rom the User Names box record ofall logged sessions for that user appearsin the Result Log box Print button to send the Result Log to your printer o ACCESSIBILITY Looking for Words i compatible with altenatve input devices such at single switches touch and lies Switcher and Scanning Scanning functionality says enabled Speed adjustments can be made inthe Settings screen poge Some srens such Options do not scan Single Switch Auto Scanning Activate auto scanning wth a pace bar keystoke and make selection with second space keystroke Two Switch Auto Scanning Activate scanning with space bar keystoke and make selection with an Ener Retum keystroke Two Switch Manual Scanning Directional ft and ght row are used to manual step through the scaming Selection ie made wth an Enter Intel The correc very automaticaly sento the keyboard proper installed on your computer for Wore old separately Please contact Atinment Company for more information on ordering lfyouhavea problem running Looking for Words please call Atainment Technical Support possible be ear your computer wile solitons You
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