Writer

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Writers Companion Software
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Stacy Bodin Dozier Elementary
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Brush off what you dont want, pick up what you
want to keep.or just leave it on the ground

• My goal here today is simple.
• I want you to think of this presentation as
• confetti

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• MY MESSAGE
• Born with a moderate hearing loss, I
  have always been at a disadvantage by societys
  terms of hearing. Fitted with hearing aids at the
  age of thirty years old, I made a conscious
  effort to use my disability as an advantage in my
  classroom.
• In essence, I feel that just as my
  hearing aids are tools which have helped
  compensate for my hearing loss, I believe
  computers are tools which help students meet
  individual academic needs and challenges.

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Writers Companion
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This is New to me. So Bear with me!
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What is it?

• Writers Companion is a writing programwhich
  offers brainstorming, graphic organizers and
  connecting main ideas in terms of writing
  paragraphs.
• It was created by a teacher.

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What can it do?

• Helps students and teachers organize thoughts and
  paragraphs.

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How can it help my students?

• The main purpose that I have found is the use of
  graphic organizers help connect the graphic
  organizers and the written word.

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Format
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What can it be used for?

• To help organize thoughts through graphic
  organizers for research papers, vocabulary and
  for many subjects.
• For younger ones, the Speak Text can be used to
  hear and see what they have written. (Example
  Run on sentences)
• It can help offer visual and audio guides to the
  text..

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Use Speak text to hear their sentences.
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Who can use it?

• Anyone who needs help teaching students to
  organize paragraphs, understanding main ideas and
  creating sentences, etc.

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Where can I get it?

• Vermilion Teachers have licenses on the server.
  Others can look at the Writers Companion
  Website for details about purchasing it.
• You will get handouts with information to
  download, etc.

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Demonstrationof Writers Companion
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