First Keys 2

Now completely revised, First Keys links the development of keyboard awareness to early literacy skills. A new edition of this popular program, suitable for young children or older pupils with learning difficulties.

Pupils can develop keyboard skills through picture matching, letter recognition, word building and spelling. Location of keys is taught by matching letters with pictures and speech.

The program comes with an extensive range of images which include improved versions of the graphics in First Keys 1 as well as photographs and additional images to illustrate new activity possibilities. It is easy to add your own images and photos and the program accepts a wide range of file formats.

The program is whiteboard friendly and provides a very useful tool to support the literacy strategy.

First Keys 2 has six types of activity:

Initial Letter: match a letter key to the initial letter of a picture prompt.

Match the text: type in the whole word or phrase to match the text.

Build the Text: text and picture appears, but on the first input the remaining text disappears.

Fill the Gaps: show the picture and text, but with gaps missing in the text. These gaps may be fixed letters, vowels or letter blends.

Look Cover Spell: see the picture and text. After a time (configurable) the whole word disappears and the student must type it in.

Spell from Picture: here the word is not seen and the student must type in the word, given only the picture.

Not suitable for Win 95.