Overview

The Sight Words Practice (SWP) app provides:

• Simple activities aimed at helping readers to learn and practise sight words
• Easy selection (by the reading coach) of the words to be used in these activities
• Easy addition of new words and word lists

SWP was designed with adult readers in mind but is also suitable for use with young adults and children. It is assumed that SWP will be used under the supervision of an adult teacher or coach who will be responsible for managing the word lists and selecting the words to be used for each session.

The app provides a facility for installing "builtin" lists. In particular, all the sight words in the Turning Pages manuals designed by the Shannon Trust are built in to the app. Sight words from each of the five manuals may be installed via the "Install builtin lists" panel (see below).

In Version 1.4, two further builtin lists have been added: "Alphabet sounds" (a, b, c, ...) and "Consonant blend sounds" (bl, br, cl, ...). Note that the sounds in these two lists are not generated by the speech synthesizer, but are recordings made by Read Easy Winchester's literary specialist.

Another new feature in V1.4 is the ability to add your own recordings for sounds and words. This may be useful if you want to add to the existing sound recordings or you come across a word which you feel is not pronounced correctly by the speech synthesizer.