Skill Drills — Writing Lab

Writing Lab

Build typing fluency and dictation accuracy. Choose Free Write to type freely about a topic of your choice, or Dictation Practice to listen to sentences read aloud and type them back exactly.

What you'll practice

Two modes, two skills. Pick one to begin, you can switch modes anytime.

• Typing & Text Input
• Audio Playback & Dictation

Before you start

Screen reader (required) Choose one… JAWS NVDA VoiceOver Narrator ChromeVox TalkBack Prefer not to say

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Writing Lab

Game Settings

Sound Effects: On Music: On

Music volume

Narration: On Track Punctuation: Off

Choose a Mode

Free Write Choose a topic and write freely about it. There is no fixed correct answer, this builds typing fluency. Dictation Practice Listen to sentences read aloud and type them back exactly. Choose sentence by sentence, or one passage read once.

Set Up Your Session

Level

Topic

Dictation style A Few Words at a Time Sentence by Sentence Whole Passage, Read Once

Session time 30 seconds 1 minute 2 minutes 3 minutes 5 minutes

Continue Switch Mode

Get Ready

Start

Level: —

Time Left: 60s

Words: 0

Your topic

Sentence

Hear It Again

Type what you hear, then press Enter. Press Shift and Enter together, or select Hear It Again, to hear it once more. Press Escape any time to pause.

Session Complete!

Send Results to Teacher

Teacher's email address Send Results to Teacher Copy Results to Clipboard

If the email button does not open your email app, use Copy Results to Clipboard and paste the results into an email or message yourself.

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