Nessy Learning Programme

Nessy Learning Programme

• Product Names: Nessy Learning Programme
• Manufacturer/Publisher: Nessy

A complete literacy teaching scheme.

Nessy is a learning programme for all ages and abilities developed at the Bristol Dyslexia Centre. It is ideal for teachers who need to provide a complete literacy scheme for pupils with dyslexia.

Using humour, this highly structured programme makes learning fun and effective. The material in Nessy is organised into 10 islands, a mountain and the beach on Loch Nessy. Each island contains 10 lessons which cover simple vowel and consonant patterned words through to homophones and multi-syllabic words, providing guidance and activities that are printable, including some small reading books. The interactive games can be accessed using the word lists appropriate to the lesson. The mountain is used for high frequency and irregular words for reading and spelling and the beach covers activities to encourage writing skills. The Nessy Reading and Spelling Checks allow correct identification of the grade which the user should start at from KS1 up to adult level.

The interactive games include 'Whack the Rat', where listening and co-ordination skills are required as you need to give the correct spelling of words spoken aloud in order to finish the game successfully. Another game, 'Brain Drain', gives the pupil four options to understand which word is required to answer the statement correctly. When completed effectively the pupil can become a 'super genius'!

This product's great strength is that it allows the pupil to practise the same skill in many different ways, so there is little chance of getting bored.

The detailed worksheets make it possible for teachers and parents to use this fun and extensive resource to encourage learning.

This resource contains:

• A multi-sensory teaching scheme with 1500 printable pages, 120 lessons, 271 card games and a library of mnemonics and writing strategies
• Incremental approach with 12 levels covering a wide range of abilities
• Record sheets for tracking student progress
• Interactive animations to learn phonic rules
• The recording studio allows the student to record their own word lists
• As well as worksheets it includes word searches, tracking exercises, crosswords, picture worksheets, dominoes, pairs and bingo games and much more
• New resources and games can be downloaded by subscribing to the Nessy web site.

Free demo download available

To download the following demo of Nessy Learning Programme (41MB):

• Right click on the link provided
• Select “Save Target (or Link) As”
• You will be prompted to save your file on your hard drive. Choose a location and click the “Save” button.

You will need:

• Windows 98 or later
• Pentium, 300MHz processor
• 128MB RAM
• 250MB hard disk space
• CD-ROM in drive for single licence
• The following software is provided: Flash Player, Quicktime and Adobe Acrobat

N.B. Network licences are special order items and therefore non-refundable, unless faulty.