Writing and creativity program that inspires and empowers young writers

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Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center is a powerful writing and creativity tool designed to stimulate and support children as they learn to write.  Gives young writers exciting technological tools to use in writing , illustrating, and presenting their ideas with clarity and imagination.  Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center combines an easy-to-use word Computer Processor with creativity tools enhanced by special Educational and Educational features. Students can transform them into multimedia presentations complete with sound, music, and animation. Cross-curricular student activities and in the Teacher's Guide help reinforce the five steps of the writing process. 

Paint your own pictures, or add clip art, photos, sound, music, and animation to brilliant backgrounds such as Tropical Rain Forest, Southwestern Desert, Pacific Ocean, and Space.  Also, you are provided with interesting facts about each background.  It shows this program to be for ages 6-10, but as you will see within the , it is pretty involved and even adults can benefit from all that this program has to offer!

Create

• Reports
• Illustrated storybooks
• Newsletters
• Journals
• Signs 
• Poems

Ultimate Writing & Creativity Center Features

• Easy-to-use word Computer Processor
• 1,000 writing projects and ideas
• Spoken help on the writing process
• 900 Clipart pictures and borders
• 150 sound clips and 40 animations to add to your documents
• Paint program
• Spelling checker
• Animation
• Sound and music
• Colorful graphics
• Inspiring ideas
• Interactive Computer characters
• Fonts in a variety of sizes, styles, and colors
• Easy cut, copy and paste
• With this Childrens Educational learning game Children's dictionary and thesaurus
• Multiple column layouts
• Import text and graphics

Educational Features

"Did You Know Facts" Include

• What is Prewriting
• What is Brainstorming
• What should I think about before I start writing
• How do I choose an idea
• What is an audience
• What does purpose mean
• How do I get information
• What should I do when I interview someone
• What do I need to know about drafting
• What is drafting
• How do I start drafting
• What should I do about my audience
• What should I do about my purpose
• What should I do if I get stuck
• What is revising
• How do I start revising
• How can I tell if my writing makes sense
• Should I ask other people for help
• How do I figure out where to start new paragraphs
• How can can the dictionary help me
• How can the the sources help me
• How will I know whether I left something out
• How do I figure what to take it out
• What is editing
• How should I get started editing
• Should I ask other people for help
• What kind of mistakes should I look for
• What is presenting
• What will different fonts and style do for my writing
• Should I add sound and music to my work
• Should I add color
• How can I share my work
• Mistakes Lots of People Make
  • Various words that sound alike (e.g., accept, except, by buy, its, it's, etc.)
  • Capitalization
  • Commas
• Idea Organizers
  • Cluster
  • List
  • Observation Chart
  • Outline
  • Story Map
  • Topic Focuser
  • and more
• Game Mode ls to think about
  • Bibliography
  • Biography
  • Book Report
  • Business Letter
  • Character Sketch
  • Comparison Contrast
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  • Friendly Letter
  • Instructions
  • Journal Entry
  • New Story
  • Personal Narrative
  • Persuasive Writing
  • Research Report
  • Rhyming Poems
  • Scene from a Play
  • Story

Software or computer game requirements for PC use

• 486DX/33 MHz or better (233MHz for XP)
• Microsoft windows 95, 98, Me, XP
• 8MB of RAM (72MB of RAM for XP)
• Hard drivewith 30MB free disk space
• 2X -rom drive
• 640x480 VGA monitor 
• Microsoft windows Computer Sound Card and speakers
• Optional Any Microsoft windows- printer (excluding plotters)

Macintosh Software or computer game requirements for PC use

• Mac OS 7.0.1 to 9.2, OS X Classic mode
• 68040/33 MHz or faster
• 12MB of RAM (16MB for PowerMac)
• 15MB free hard drive space
• 640x480 monitor, 256 colors
• 2X Drive