The application comes with detailed Teaching and Technical Guides. The Intro activities develop phonemic awareness by having the user sort pictures into groups. The application speaks the words, whose vowel sounds are the basis for the sorts. In the Through activities, students build and experiment with words in different ways. In the Word Bank, choices of letters and letter combinations are listed and spoken when clicked.
Students drag letters to assemble words and letter combinations in any number of ways.
Similar to this is the Word Building Tool. Using its virtual keyboard, students build words and experiment with inventive spelling. These activities provide lots of opportunity to manipulate letters within words and learn common spelling patterns. Beyond activities allow for the user to create short written passages, which can include all the words from the Word Bank and Notebook. For example, clicking on any word or image in the Journal activity prompts the computer to speak it.