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SoftRead Intro

SoftRead is a multimedia, multilingual instruction and information package. This software was developed at a major university famous for its language programs. SoftRead is composed of two applications, one (SoftRead Author) for authoring and materials development, and another (SoftRead Player) for playback of what has been authored. While SoftRead was developed for language instruction, many of its features can be used for organizing and documenting information, such as histories, study material and retrieval, abstracts and annotations, and other information storage needs. A printing option makes it easy to provide a non-interactive hard copy of the content generated.

SoftRead Author allows you to create multimedia content in any language that uses a Romanized alphabet. SoftRead allows you to easily create dictionaries, gloss specific vocabulary items and expressions, create quiz items, writing exercises, word webs, and crossword puzzles based on the content. SoftRead even allows you to link graphics, audio and QuickTime video to the content created.

SoftRead Player allows the user to view the content created in the authoring program. SoftRead Player utilizes the content text, dictionary, selected vocabulary items and expressions, quiz item, writing exercises, crossword puzzles, and multimedia links (pictures, audio, and movies) created in the author. It also adds the following features:

Timed or paced reading of the textual part of the content with a variety of custom settings.
Flash cards based on the vocabulary items
Vocabulary Shootout game: to practice word recognition, spelling, and definitions
Type Racer game: to practice letter and word recognition using a typing drill.
Jumble Jim game: to practice spelling and word recognition, sentence structure (word order), and paragraph structure (sentence order)

	(Left) Students click and drag the mixed letters to spell out the word based on the clue. Correct letters are blue and incorrect letters turn red. They continue to move them around until the word is spelled correctly.
(Right) The definition of the word is given at the bottom, students try and pop the balloon with the correct vocabulary word.
	(Left) Use this game to determine reading speed. The Student can change from entire pages to individual words. Speeds range from 100 WPM to 500 WPM.
(Right) Use this game to understand how sentences are put together. The student places the words below into the blanks. Just like word scrambler above, correct words are blue, and incorrect turn red.