Imagination Express Castle

In Destination: Neighborhood, familiar settings and characters encourage students to write about actual or imagined adventures.
They enjoy developing creativity, writing, and communication skills as they explore the Neighborhood and all the people who live there. As they select scenes, choose and animate stickers, write, narrate, add music, and record dialogue, their stories, journals, letters, and poems come alive!
Special features include the ability to print stories in color or black—and—white or play back on screen and easy customization for students of different ages, abilities, and skill levels.

LEARNING OPPORTUNITIES
•  Strengthen creativity
•  Build writing and editing skills
•  Explore story development and structure
•  Incorporate multimedia components into storymaking process
•  Develop verbal communication skills
•  Expand vocabulary
 FEATURES
Animate this basketball player and many other stickers with the click of a button! Will your grandparents watch the action from inside or outside their building? It's up to you! Choose photo-realistic people, pets, pizza, and more from the Sticker Picker. Dogs and other stickers automatically grow or shrink as you move them close to you or far away.
Neighborhood's Edit Screen
Create a neighborhood band! Record your own music, sound effects, dialogue, and narration to bring your story to life!
Neighborhood's View Screen
In View Mode, you'll enjoy seeing and hearing each page of your story unfold on-screen.
Print storybooks in color or black—and—white, or watch them come alive on-screen in View Mode.
Use the Sticker Editor to change a sticker's size and appearance.
Use Text Tools to write and edit text.
In Dear Parents, a former teacher with 20 years of experience offers parents advice about encouraging their children's writing.
Story Ideas will spark your child's imagination!
Adult Options let you customize the program to suit your child.
Auto-sizing stickers grow as you move them to the front of a scene and shrink as you move them into the background.
Use Sound Tools to make stickers sing, laugh, speak, or bark; to narrate your story page by page; and to choose theme music to set the mood!
UNIVERSAL ACCESS
This product contains Universal Access features including TouchWindow and Single Switch compatibility to address a variety of learning styles and abilities.