Navigating Spencer Learning’s Ultimate Phonics : a brief slideshow introducing basic displays and

navigational tools

Fifteen West Regional machines have Ultimate Phonics software

• Computer Center, E1—E10 (classroom style area)

• 2nd Floor Main Area, Literacy 1—Literacy 5

BCL circulates Ultimate Phonics software (Windows compatible).

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Use in the library :

Use at home :

Spencer Learning’s Ultimate Phonics Reading Program is a multimedia learning

program for learners—ages 4 to adult—desiring to learn or improve basic reading

and spelling skills.

Launch Ultimate Phonics from the desktop shortcut

BCL public machine desktop

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Navigating Spencer Learning’s Ultimate Phonics : Navigational Tools

Buttons for pop-ups

Buttons for page advance & lesson

advance

Audio

Pull-down menus

Ultimate Phonics interface features

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Pull-downs & retrieving a particular lesson

Lesson pull-down menu

Navigating Spencer Learning’s Ultimate Phonics : Pull-down Menus

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Pull-downs & retrieving a particular kind of lesson activity

Navigating Spencer Learning’s Ultimate Phonics : Pull-down Menus

Lesson activity (or lesson part) pull-

down menu

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Button invoking pop-up browsing list of session history

Navigating Spencer Learning’s Ultimate Phonics : Buttons & Pop-ups

Button for session history pop-up

Screenshot reflects a session history of 3 visits to Welcome page, 1 visit to Letters page, and 1 to Consonants, Vowels, & A

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Button invoking pop-up for the find feature, which displays (a) alphabetical list of Words or Ideas & Patterns, (b) a search box, & (c) scrollbar

Navigating Spencer Learning’s Ultimate Phonics : Buttons & Pop-ups

Button for find feature pop-up

Screenshot reflects search results for the queryIdeas & Patterns beginning with e

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Navigating Spencer Learning’s Ultimate Phonics : Buttons & Pop-ups

Button invoking pop-up for the general menu, which displays general tabbed options for setting session parameters

Button for a general menu pop-up

Screenshot reflects a session with all but one of the possibleparameters activated

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Navigating Spencer Learning’s Ultimate Phonics : Buttons & Pop-ups

Button invoking pop-up for the general menu, which displays general tabbed options for setting session parameters

Button for a general menu pop-up

Screenshot reflects the student, Gwen, has advanced as far as Lesson 1, Page 8, in this session. Hoorah for her!

Note: Students may register if they desire, however, their Ultimate Phonics registrationwill be deleted after completing their BCL computer sessions. In other words,

all BCL machines are set to delete all session-specific work after a session ends, including all sessions of Ultimate Phonics.

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Activate audio by clicking speaker icon

Navigating Spencer Learning’s Ultimate Phonics : Audio Icon

Audio

Screenshot reflects student is working on Lesson 1, Page 8—the pronunciation of c.

Screenshot reflects student is working on Lesson 6, Page 1—the pronunciation of short i.

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Navigating Spencer Learning’s Ultimate Phonics : Audio Icon

Screenshot reflects student is working on Lesson 6 by studying sentences featuring the short i

Audio

Activate audio by clicking speaker icon

Screenshot reflects student is working on Lesson 6, Page 1—the pronunciation of short i.

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Word list display

Ultimate Phonics : Simple Displays

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

Ultimate Phonics : Simple Tools

Session history browsing list displayed in front of a word list display

This slideshow featured the basic displays and navigational tools that you will encounter navigating Ultimate Phonics Reading Program. Yes, that’s it!

For more information, please call Gwen Williams at 954-382-5860 ext 281

West Regional Library 8601 W. Broward Blvd. Plantation, FL 33324

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