I had great trouble loading this program, but it was worth it in the end.

It starts with a teaching part, giving simple sentences as examples. Then a tree grows, to the accompaniment of sound effects. Below it are four bands of instructions that in a teaching program should be larger and much easier to read.

A sentence to be corrected appears on screen with a green apple that can be moved along above it. Key 6 changes the letter below the apple to a capital.

If you get it wrong, you're told "try again" without any return to the teaching section. The score gives number of tries, thus showing up any trial and error attempts, but disappears too quickly unless you use a printer.

In the second game, an apple falling from the tree has to be stopped - impossible on the review copy! - by pressing the key corresponding to the letter on the screen.

Animation, sound and graphics were excellent.

Both primary and remedial children would enjoy this way to learn and reinforce knowledge.

T.W.