Franklin BOOKMAN SSA-2045 User manual

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Electronic Publishers

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ELECTRONIC BOOK CARD

MAN

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USER’S GUIDE

SSA-2045

Spelling Ace

Speaking

License Agreement

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Contents

Welcome to the world of BOOKMAN!

With this

Speaking Spelling Ace®

book

card, you can check spellings, learn how

to write letters, and play 11 fun word

games. In addition, if you have a BOOK-

MAN with a speaker or a headphone

jack, you can hear pronunciations of let-

ters and words. It’s fun and easy to use.

To learn how, read this User’s Guide.

Installing a Book Card and Selecting a Book..................... 3

Using the Color Keys and Changing the Settings .............. 4

Viewing a Demonstration .................................................. 5

Hearing Letters and Words ................................................ 5

Checking Spellings ............................................................ 6

Finding a Letter in a Word ................................................. 7

Finding a Series of Letters ................................................ 7

Learning to Write Letters and Words ................................. 8

Saving Words for Study ..................................................... 9

It’s Time to Rhyme ........................................................... 10

Learning Confusable Words............................................. 10

Changing Game Settings ................................................. 11

Playing the Games ........................................................... 11

Sending a Word Between Books...................................... 14

Resetting Your BOOKMAN .............................................. 15

Book Card Care ............................................................... 15

Specifications .................................................................. 16

Limited Warranty (U.S. only)............................................ 17

Key Guide

Color Keys

SPELL

(red) Pronounces a letter,

number, or punctuation mark.

SAY

(green) Pronounces a word.

GAMES

(yellow)

Shows the games list.

RHYME

(blue)

Shows a list of rhyming

words.

Other Keys

BACK

Erases a letter or backs up.

CAP

Shiftsthekeystotypecapitalsor

punctuation.

CARD

Exits the book you are reading.

CLEAR

Clears your entry.

ENTER

Enters a word, selects a menu

item, or starts a highlight.

HELP

Displays help messages.

Displays the main menu.

ON/OFF

Turns BOOKMAN on or off.

?✽

Shows Confusables®, types a

? to stand for an unknown

letter in a word; with

CAP

types an ✽to stand for a series

of letters in a word.

SPACE

Types a space or pages down.

Direction Keys

Movesthroughtextormenus, or

moves the cursor or highlight.

Pages down or up.

➤

Understanding the Color Keys

The color keys (red, green, yellow, and

blue) perform the functions listed

above only for the book described in

this User’s Guide.

Other BOOKMAN books have their

own color key functions, which are

labeled on their keyboards or book

cards. To learn more, read “Using the

Color Keys.”

Key Combinations*

✩

+ Q-PTypes numbers.

✩

Goes to the next or previ-

ous handwritten letter or

number.

CAP

+ Goes to the top or bottom

of a word list or menu.

* Hold the first key while pressing the other key.

Warning: Never install or remove a

book card while your BOOKMAN is

turned on. If you do, information that you

entered in its built-in book, as well as in

any other installed book cards, will be

erased.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN off.

2. Turn your BOOKMAN over.

3. Align the tabs on the book

card with the notches in the

slot.

4. Press the book card down

until it snaps into place.

Installing a Book Card

Once you have installed a book card in

your BOOKMAN, you can select which

book you want to use. Here’s an ex-

ample.

1. Turn your BOOKMAN on.

2. Press CARD .

3. Press or to highlight the

book you want to use.

4. Press

ENTER

to select it.

Selecting a Book

➤

Resuming Where You Left Off

You can turn off BOOKMAN at any

screen. When you turn BOOKMAN

on again, the screen that you last

viewed appears.

➤

Removing Book Cards

Warning: When you remove a book

card to install another, information that

you entered into the removed book

card will be erased.

Using the Color Keys

The red, green, yellow, and blue keys on

the top row of your BOOKMAN change

their functions according to which book

you have selected.

If you have selected the built-in book,

the color keys function as labeled on the

BOOKMAN keyboard. If you have se-

lected a book card, the color keys func-

tion as labeled on that card.

Remember, when you’ve selected a

book card, the color keys function as

labeled on that card, not as on the

keyboard.

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You can adjust the keyboard echo, shut-

off time, and screen contrast of this

book. You can also change all the let-

ters to capitals.

Turning the keyboard echo off stops the

pronunciation after each symbol is typed

and lets you type letters faster.

The shutoff time is how long your BOOK-

MAN stays on if you forget to turn it off.

Contrast refers to how light or dark the

screen is.

1. Press

2. Use to highlight Setup.

3. Press

ENTER

4. Use to highlight a setting.

5. Press

ENTER

to select it.

If you select

Set Contrast

, press

or repeatedly to make the

screen darker or lighter.

To leave the settings unchanged,

press

BACK

6. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Changing the Settings

Viewing a Demonstration

➤

Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at

virtually any time by pressing

HELP

Press or

to read the help.

Press

BACK

to exit the message.

To read about how to use the keys,

select

Tutorial

from the Setup menu.

Hearing Letters and Words

If you have a BOOKMAN with a speaker

or a headphone jack, you can hear let-

ters, numbers, and punctuation marks pro-

nounced as you type them and words af-

ter you enter them.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type a word. For example,

type wren.

If the keyboard echo has not been

turned off, you will hear each letter,

number, or punctuation mark as you

type. To learn how to turn the

keyboard echo on or off, read

“Changing the Settings.”

3. Press

SAY

(the green key) to

hear the word pronounced.

4. Press

SPELL

(red) repeatedly to

hear the word spelled aloud.

5. To adjust the volume, turn

the dial on the side of your

BOOKMAN.

6. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Before you start using your new book

card, you may want to see a brief dem-

onstration of what it can do. Here’s how.

1. Press

2. Use the arrow keys to high-

light Setup and press

ENTER

3. Use the arrow keys to highlight

View Demo, and press

ENTER

start the demonstration.

4. To stop the demonstration at

any time, press

CLEAR

Checking Spellings Checking Spellings

5. Press

ENTER

6. Press

SAY

(green) to hear the

word pronounced.

7. Press

SPELL

(red) repeatedly to

hear the word spelled aloud.

You can see rhyming words by

pressing

RHYME

. To learn more, read

“It’s Time to Rhyme.”

8. Press

BACK

to go back to the

corrections.

9. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

➤

Follow the Arrows

The flashing arrows on the right of

the screen show which arrow keys

you can press to move around the

screen.

If you misspell a word, your

Speaking

Spelling Ace

automatically provides a list

of corrections. If you enter a correctly

spelled word,

Correct

appears on the

screen. Try this example.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type a word. For example,

type jiraph.

To erase a letter, press

BACK

To type capitals and punctuation,

hold

CAP

and press a letter or

punctuation key.

To type numbers, hold

✩

and

press a numbered key.

3. Press

ENTER

4. Use to highlight a correc-

tion, if needed.

➤

About Screen Illustrations

Some screen illustrations in this User’s

Guide may differ from what you see on

screen. This does not mean that your

BOOKMAN is malfunctioning.

Finding a Letter in a Word

If you are unsure how to spell a word, type

a question mark in place of each unknown

letter. You can type more than one ques-

tion mark in a word.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type a word with ?’s. For

example, type p?rt.

3. Press

ENTER

4. Use to highlight a word.

5. Press

SAY

(green) to hear the

highlighted word pronounced.

6. Use

SPELL

(red) to hear the high-

lighted word spelled aloud.

➤

Crossword Helper

You can also use question marks to

help solve crossword puzzles. For

example, if the second letter of a five-

letter word is

and its last letter is

enter

?h??w

to see possible answers.

Finding a Series of Letters

You can also find the endings, begin-

nings, and other parts of words by typ-

ing an asterisk (✽). An asterisk stands

for a series of letters.

1. Press

CLEAR

2. Type a word with an ✽. For

example, type de

✽

cks.

To type an asterisk, hold

CAP

and

press

✻

3. Press

ENTER

4. Use to highlight a word.

5. Press

SAY

(green) to hear the

highlighted word pronounced.

6. Press

SPELL

(red) repeatedly to

hear the highlighted word

spelled.

7. Press

CLEAR

when finished.

Learning to Write

Letters and Words

Your

Speaking Spelling Ace

can help you

learn how to write manuscript (block print-

ing) and cursive letters, and cursive words.

1. Press

2. Press

ENTER

to select Handwriting.

3. Use to highlight a category

and then press

ENTER

. For ex-

ample, select Cursive Letters.

4. Type a letter or number and press

ENTER

. For example, enter g.

Note: You can enter only one hand-

written letter or number at a time.

To type numbers, hold

✩

and press

the numbered keys.

5. Press or

ENTER

to see a

guide about how to write the

letter or number.

6. Press or

ENTER

again to see the

letter or number written on the

screen.

7. To see the letter or number writ-

ten again, press or

ENTER

again.

8. Press

SAY

SPELL

to hear the

letter or number pronounced.

9. Hold

✩

and press

see the next or previous letter

or number.

➤

Learning to Write Cursive Words

You can learn how to write cursive words.

Simply select

Cursive Words

from the

Handwriting menu and then use the ar-

row keys to select a word from the word

list. For example, select

ball

Press

SAY

(green) to hear the word

pronounced. Press

SPELL

(red) to hear

the word spelled aloud. To see the word

written again, press or

ENTER

Learning to Write

Letters and Words

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