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Paragraph Punch
- Helps students develop their paragraph writing skills. Students learn how to write an effective paragraph -- developed by reason, detail, sequence, example, and cause and effect.
- Choosing from a menu of topics, students are guided to develop an idea, and to write their own topic sentence, body, and conclusion. Steps include pre-writing, writing, organizing, revising, rewriting, and publishing.
- Teachers can monitor their students' progress in the record management system.
Designed for students in grades 5 through 10 (ages 10 and up), the software can also be used by English language learners and adult students.
The program helps students learn different ways to write a paragraph:
through reasons, details, sequence, example, and cause and effects.
The program contains 15 writing topics and 1,548 help prompts to guide students through each step in the writing process. This writing program helps students with reading levels of six and up to write effective paragraphs. It teaches five different ways to develop a paragraph: through reasons, details, example, cause and effects, and sequence. A step-by-step approach emphasizes content and organization.
Students will...
- Use pre-writing strategies for different writing tasks.
- Write clear descriptive sentences.
- Focus writing on a central idea or topic.
- Use supporting ideas, detail, and facts to develop and elaborate on a topic.
- Proofread to correct conventional errors in mechanics, usage, and punctuation.
To use Paragraph Punch, students need to be able to write basic sentences on a word processor. The program guides students through each step in writing a complete paragraph. Help messages are provided throughout. Students are encouraged by the program's graphic rewards, as well as by seeing their work develop and progress. Students may transfer their finished paragraphs to a commercial word processing program. Teachers may write a comment to the student which will be saved until the student sees it.
Saving, Printing, and Exiting Before Completing Paragraph
When students exit, the program saves their work and allows them to return to it at another time. The program will quickly scroll students’ work and stop at the place they left off. After the students have completed Pre-Writing they will be able to print out their work in progress at frequent intervals. Students who return to Publishing can go back to the Editing sections.
Versions are available for stand-alone, network, or home use. The evaluation version of the program permits entry of only two student names. When a third name is entered, the first one will be deleted. The stand-alone version for one station contains record keeping for 42 students. Other School versions permit entry of as many names as disk space allows. When disk space is filled, the name that was entered first will be deleted.
**The online version of the Punch programs works with the Internet Explorer, Firefox and Safari browsers. Windows, Macintosh and Linux operating systems are supported.
Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/2003/XP
5 MB RAM, 65 MB hard disk space
This program requires a minimum screen resolution of 800 by 600 pixels.
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