ALL programmes included here are recommended. Practise Your Cloze 2. Word Search Game Maker 3. This program was written for beginning readers and writers. It displays a text that the student has to work on, takes words out at random and asks the student to pick the missing word from a group at the bottom of the screen.
Teachers can easily add exercises, which can be saved within the program or as external texts.
The program works best with short texts, 200-300 words. The program is easy to use and has a number of useful and clever help devices. The graphics are plain but functional. There is a read aloud facility, though I couldn't get this to work on my machine. FreeWare Description Wordsearch is a utility for creating worksheets for practising word recognition skills.