Early reading and writing stories for switch users... Now with large sized, full colour picture books!

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Songs, music and images encourage students to write a story about what happened during a trip on a green bus. Students can sing along as they complete their stories. Three stories; 63 word vocabulary. The story structure is set at the second grade readability level.

• Help switch users build basic literacy skills Students learn to read by writing their own stories
• Increase word recognition and vocabulary Each story includes at least a 60-word vocabulary
• Develop interaction and choice-making skills Each story has 16 variations dependent on students’ word choices.

With UKanDu Little Books software, teachers can transition students from learning cause and effect to developing early literacy skills. Students complete simple sentences using word choices on-screen; stories vary according to the students’ choices.

Includes separate large-size, full-colour picture books to help students move from seeing pictures and words on-screen to reading print books.

Help young writers become young readers

• Helps students make the critical transition from understanding words to early literacy with the speech feedback that recites each sentence and story as it is completed
• Uses visual and auditory prompts to encourage students to make choices
• Builds students’ confidence in their choice making skills by using a supportive, “no wrong answer” approach
• Encourages communication and interaction because students have a printed copy of “their story” to share with others
• Builds greater word awareness by offering different word choices

View/Download Documentation

• UkanDu Little Books – On a Green Bus User Manual (PDF 194 KB)

Minimum System Requirements

• Windows
  • Operating System: Windows 95/98/ME
  • RAM: 8 MB RAM
  • Hard Drive Space: 8 MB hard drive space
  • Processor: 486
  • Sound Card: Sound Blaster or compatible
  • CD-ROM: 4x
• Macintosh
  • Operating System: OS 7.1 – 9 (not Mac OS X)
  • RAM: 8 MB RAM
  • Hard Drive Space: 9 MB hard drive space
  • Processor: 68030
  • CD-ROM: 4x