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Beret Study Buddy: Vocabulary
Beret Study Buddy: Vocabulary is a vocabulary program that can be used in your classroom to motivate students to practice and learn content vocabulary words.
This program keeps track of word lists and uses the words in these lists for games.
Main Screen There are 5 square buildings on the main screen.
All Words Quiz Guess? Word Find Tic-Tac-Toe
There are 3 oval tutorial bubbles on the main screen.
Help! Setup Stats
The “All Words” Building
This is the building you tap into to create and manage your lists of words.
You can tap into: All words
This shows all the words in your word list.
New This will let you add a new word to your list.
Copy This will let you copy words from one list to
another list.
Add a new list This lets you create a new list.
The “Quiz” Building
This building lets you take a matching quiz.
You will read the given definition and then tap on the correct answer choice.
Tap on the forward arrow for the next definition.
The “Quiz” Screen Layout
Quiz
CLUE: An animal with black and white stripes.A. dogB. cheetahC. zebra
Start Quit
Done
The “Guess” Game
This is a game in which you have to guess the letters for the word that matches the definition.
Guess all the right letters before
Herbert runs out of suitcases.
The “Guess” Game Layout
Guess 00:00CLUE: An animal that barks.A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Answer:***
The “Word Find” Game
Word Find is a word search game in which the students have to find the words hidden in the letters on the screen.
When you locate a word, tap on the beginning letter and the ending letter to select it.
Tap on the pop-up screen in the upper right-hand corner and a list will appear to show you a list of all the words in the word list.
The “Word Find” Game Layout
Word Find 00:00 catAKLPJDILDBBLDIUDFHACATJFIANCLBNDUIUOIGHFUIPDUIFYPAIHFEOUV
Found ___ out of ___Done
The “Tic-Tac-Toe” Game
To play this tic-tac-toe game, you have to answer a question correctly to earn the square.
You have 3 choices to play tic-tac-toe You and a friend can take turns using one
handheld. You can play against the handheld. You can play against another handheld
using infrared.
The “Tic-Tac-Toe” Game Layout
Tic Tac ToePlayer
1 is XScore:__
Player 2
is OScore:__Partners handheld infrared
Help!
The help tutorial bubble brings you to a screen that lists a table of contents.
Tap on a word in the table of contents. The help tutorial will link you to a step by step process in order to help you answer your questions about the program.
Help Layout
Help Topics (Tap on for Help) Table of Contents
Introduction View All Words How to add a word Creating a new word list Removing a word list Game setup Etc…..
Stats
This bubble will take you to a screen that will keep track of the last 10 times you ran Study Buddy.
The Stats page keeps track of the number of problems correct and the number of problems attempted.
This screen is valuable for the teacher in evaluating how the students performed.
Setup
The setup bubble brings you to a screen that lets the teacher determine aspects of the game, such as; Time allowed to answer questions Volume Difficulty level for tic-tac-toe Number of quiz questions
Setup Layout
Guess? Timeout: 1 2 3 min. How good is Herbert at Tic-Tac-Toe
Easy Good Great Volume: Off Low Med High Word Find Scrolls Number of quiz questions:___ Keep quizzes for ___ days.
Done
Let’s Practice
Now that you have seen an overview of how the Study Buddy Vocabulary program works, lets create a word list so we can play each of the three games.
How to Create a List
To add a new word list: Tap on “Add New List” on the “All
words” screen Enter a name for the list Tap on the “OK” button Now you can start entering in your
new words and definitions. Go ahead and enter 7 words and
definitions.