Storybook Weaver Deluxe 2004 (6-User Lab Pack)

A time-tested favorite, Storybook Weaver Deluxe inspires and motivates students to author and illustrate their own multimedia story with an easy-to-use word processor and variety of graphic tools. Story ideas that range from fantasy adventures to personal events to historical fiction, and an extensive array of multicultural images from around the world make Storybook Weaver Deluxe 2004 the perfect tool for a wide range of cross-curricular projects. It's also bilingual, so students can write and hear their story's text read aloud in either English or Spanish.

**Learning Opportunities **

• Builds writing and story-telling skills in students of varying abilities
• Encourages students to personalize their stories and share writing with an audience
• Promotes individual or collaborative writing
• Develops story-sequencing skills
• Provides opportunity to integrate written and spoken language with illustrations
• Bilingual text-to-speech capability empowers ESL learners
• Supports the five-step writing process

Features

• Completed updated user interface
• New Riverdeep Network Version (RNV) available
• Thousands of graphics drawn from the folklore of many cultures and the modern-day world, including 350 new ones
• English/Spanish spell checker
• Thesaurus
• Library of sound effects and music
• Bilingual text-to-speech capability
• Library of "story starters" to inspire the writing process
• Audio record function
• Print in storybook format or save as a Web document
• Full-install option