typing skills Teaching and Training Tools

An easy to use and powerful touch typing training system for the common Qwerty keyboard. Available in both a freeware and full versions. The freeware version allows up to 20 saved exercises and unlimited practice sessions. ITouchtype includes all the trimmings of a high quality touch typing training system including many graphical analysis charts and full keystroke analysis and review exercises

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VerseQ touch typing tutor, a new step in touch type learning technology. You can pick up touch typing literally in an hour, and after 8 to 15 hours you will type like a touch-typing course graduate. Check it for yourself now!

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Reading Comprehension Booster helps students sharpen their critical thinking skills. Students work with exercises to determine main idea, make inferences and draw conclusions. Assessments place students in appropriate units of instruction. Students advance as they demonstrate readiness. Student scores are kept in a management system that allows teachers and tutors to view and print reports. Designed for ages 8 and up.

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Musical Dictation: At the beginning of each exercise, the software plays a preview of the series of notes that you'll have to recognize. Then, it proceeds to the dictation: it plays a note then awaits your answer. Musical Memory Game: To have a good ear is the ability to [re]cognize sounds. This is why "Ear and Memory Training" offers a second activity called "Musical Memory Game", freely inspired by the game "Simon Says".

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Is your reading holding you back? RocketReader has a series of dynamic exercises to quickly improve your reading speed and comprehension. This amazing software has 450 graded practice readings with comprehension tests for ages 7 to adult. You can also train with your own text and PDF files. With only 15 minutes of training a day you make remarkable progress within 10 days. After one month, you can double your reading speed. Try it - it's free!

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