{"id":789,"date":"2024-08-09T16:07:45","date_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/primerpro\/?page_id=789"},"modified":"2024-08-09T16:07:45","modified_gmt":"2024-08-09T20:07:45","slug":"features","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/primerpro\/features\/","title":{"rendered":"Features"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Teaching Order Suggestions<\/h3>\n<p>PrimerPro can suggest a teaching order for graphemes (letters, characters, or symbols) based on a word list or text data. This uses an algorithm to calculate their productivity, ensuring that learners are introduced to the most useful graphemes first.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Use<\/strong>: Generate the Primer Progression Report, which displays frequency counts and suggested teaching orders.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Word List Filtering<\/h3>\n<p>The software provides a list of words that contain any given grapheme from the word list or text data. This feature helps in creating exercises and stories that focus on specific graphemes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Use<\/strong>: Use the Grapheme Search feature on the word list, specifying the grapheme of interest.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Graphemes Taught Tracking<\/h3>\n<p>PrimerPro can track which graphemes have been taught and update this list as learners progress. This ensures that new lessons only introduce appropriate graphemes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Use<\/strong>: Update the Graphemes Taught list under the Tools menu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Buildable Words List<\/h3>\n<p>The application generates a list of words that can be built using only the graphemes that have already been taught. This is useful for creating practice materials that reinforce recently learned graphemes.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Use<\/strong>: Utilize the Buildable Words Search feature, specifying the graphemes that have been taught.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Usable Phrases for Stories<\/h3>\n<p>It provides a list of usable phrases for stories, taken from text data. These phrases are composed of taught graphemes, making them ideal for creating contextual learning materials.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Use<\/strong>: Use the Usable Phrases Search feature, ensuring it includes only taught graphemes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Checking for Untaught Residue<\/h3>\n<p>PrimerPro can check a primer story for untaught residue\u2014words containing graphemes that have not yet been taught. This ensures that all materials are suitable for the learner&#8217;s current level.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Use<\/strong>: Perform the Untaught Residue Search on your primer stories.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Frequency Counts<\/h3>\n<p>The software can give frequency counts for graphemes within the word list or text data, helping educators understand which graphemes are most common.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Use<\/strong>: Run the Frequency Count Search on your word list or text data.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Advanced Searches<\/h3>\n<p>PrimerPro supports a variety of advanced searches based on parts of speech and other features. This allows for detailed analysis and fine-tuning of literacy materials.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Use<\/strong>: Access the appropriate search options under the Search menu.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Grapheme Inventory<\/h3>\n<p>Users can manage a grapheme inventory, including initializing, updating, and verifying it. This feature supports the customization of primers to specific languages.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Use<\/strong>: On the Tools menu, navigate to Grapheme Inventory, and Initialize Grapheme Inventory. From there you can specify to initialize a grapheme inventory from a word list, text data, or pre-defined graphemes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sight Words Management<\/h3>\n<p>The software allows users to manage sight words\u2014frequently used words that learners should recognize without decoding. This includes initializing, updating, and saving sight words lists.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>How to Use<\/strong>: To initialize the current sight words, do the following:\n<ul>\n<li>On the Tools menu, navigate to Sight Words, and then click Update Sight Words. The Update Sight Words dialog box appears.<\/li>\n<li>In the Edit the list box, select all the text, and then press Delete. The box should be empty. Click OK.<\/li>\n<li>If desired, you can change the name of sight word file, by Saving Sight Words.<\/li>\n<li>The current sight words have been initialized.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><!-- notionvc: ab4431f8-ff82-45fe-996a-c85d21881b2e --><\/p>\n<p><!-- notionvc: 2ac293bc-b301-487d-bcd2-c54a3638db84 --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teaching Order Suggestions PrimerPro can suggest a teaching order for graphemes (letters, characters, or symbols) based on a word list or text data. This uses an algorithm to calculate their productivity, ensuring that learners are introduced to the most useful graphemes first. How to Use: Generate the Primer Progression Report, which displays frequency counts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"hide_sidebar":false,"hide_h1":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-789","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/primerpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/primerpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/primerpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/primerpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/primerpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/primerpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/789\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":790,"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/primerpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/789\/revisions\/790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/software.sil.org\/primerpro\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}