Brain Power Tutorial Games provide "fun games" and "super effective" spelling rules covering the following topics: -

Spelling 1d - Concentrates on Skills training. Tutorials and spelling games are aimed at auditory training, visual training, sequencing & short-term memory including the following activities: -
Alphabet sequencing, tracking, dictionary sorting and blend recognition.
Auditory recognition of syllables - a vital skill to learn to spell.
Auditory recognition of short and long vowels - e.g. not and note
Plurals: when to add -s, es, -ves or -ies,
Creating words with double or triple consonants at the end - eg click, match, dodge.
Suffixing - why and when to double the last letter, or drop a silent e when adding suffixes.

Spelling 2d

Spelling 2, which has over 100 games, builds on the skills developed in Spelling 1c.
There are the following 6 sections: -

LION - Making: - Open syllables, closed syllables, vowel consonant e syllables, digraphs syllables, vowel r syllables, words ending in '-le' syllables such as 'ble', 'cle', 'dle', 'fle', 'gle', 'kle', 'ple', 'tle', 'zle' & 'stle'.

GIRAFFE - Auditory training to distinguish the difference between the hard and soft 'c' and the hard and soft 'g' sounds, Understanding how 'Walter Warthog' effects vowel sounds, i.e. we hear wor but we write war and we hear wont but we write want. Learning the various sounds made by 'ea', as in bread, break & beam.

ZEBRA - 12 visual recognition games for words ending in 'tion', 'sion' and 'cian'.

CHEETAH - Speed Games - words ending with: - 'l' or 'll', 's' or 'ss', 'ce' or 'ss', 'ce' or 'se'.

HIPPO - Word Endings including: - 'ous' or 'us', 'ic' or ick', 'able' or 'ible'.

ELEPHANT - Memory activities: - 'here' words, 'wh' words, 'ould' words,days of the week, months of the year, silent letter and irregular words

USES
Home use - The CD has been designed with tutorials to make it completely self-explanatory. When a parent plays with their child it makes a very effective learning tool. It also means the parent learns the same terminology and so is able to reinforce what the child has learnt.

At School - The CD is being used by many schools in a variety of ways: -
- In a small remedial situation
- In a computer classroom, it is networked to enable a larger group to learn by these methods
- English Second Language - it is being used very successfully for teaching English phonics to learners who have a basic knowledge of English but who are having spelling difficulties.

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