ColorWords - It's easy! It was difficult before!
(I rarely write in English. I apologize for any bad language.)
Here is a short english description of "FarvOrd" (Translation: ColorWords)
Examples:
He runs after the bus.
He ran after the bus.
ColorWords is a free danish add-in to Word 2003, Word 2007, Word2010 and OpenOffice.
By colouring the words in the pupils own text, it becomes easier for the pupil to place periods.
By colouring the words in a text of a pupil, it becomes easier for the teacher to give a fast visual feedback.
It becomes easy to see, if the pupil master present/past tense and have used periods correct in a sentence.
Between two red words there must be either a period, exclamation point, question mark, comma or the word "and" in the danish language.
The most frequent words are colored by ColorWords like this:
A verb in present tense
A verb in past tense
A pronoun
Period .
Exclamation point !
Question mark ?
Comma ,
Translations to your language?
ColorWords works in Danish. It should be possible to translate ColorWords to other language.
It's a matter of importing some wordlist with the most frequent verbs in present/past tense and pronouns.
In the danish version you can see the lists of words in the program. It's called "Se ordlister".
If you think it's interesting. You're welcome to send a mail.
f a r v o r d @gmail.com (Remove the spaces and the mailadress works.)
How did the idea for ColorWords arise?
As a teacher at a special education school for dyslexic teens from 14-17 years which live at the school for a year.
I have done a lot of corrections on texts from pupils with writing difficulties. Some of the typical writing difficulties are linked to verbs. It is a time consuming process to locate and mark the verbs in a text. ColorWords can do this automatically with the most common danish verbs and pronouns.
The danish version of ColorWords (FarvOrd) to Word2003/2007 was available 23.01.09 created by me.
A danish version of ColorWords to OpenOffice are available here.
The danish OpenOffice translation is sponsored by Tønder Kommune and http://www.softwareborsen.dk/projekter/softwarecenter/openoffice-farvord/?searchterm=farvord
created by http://magenta-aps.dk/