I think that Tar heel reader is a great resource. I have to admit that we usually download the results as Powperpoint presentations - to;

Use locally available best quality voice - Cereproc Heather - the Scottish Voice.

Use locally available infant handwriting font - Sassoon Infant

I always have to make sure that "loop continuously until escape pressed" is set.

Could this be set as the default by Tarheel Reader? Just a suggestion.

Phllip Whittaker - pwhittaker@scotborders.gov.uk

Note also, that when you are writing a book you can put any tag on it that you want. The facility to add standards was intended for people other than the authors to add tags.

Thank you vey much for your help. It sounds better now, I´m sorry. We are new. We´ll try to learn our ropes as quickly as possible. My son Pau is so proud of himself.

ANA

Make sense?

Gary said:

Excellent questions Ana

1. The question of whether to include a picture of your writer is up to you. We certainly don't prohibit that. Some folks have a problem with that, others think it is fine. I think it is between you and the student's guardians. Another approach I have seen suggested is to include non identifiable pictures. From the back or of just hands, that kind of thing.

2. Publish your book in Spanish then go to the Reading Controls page for that book (accessible from the Setup button on the first page of the book) and click the “Create a new version of this book” link under Translation and Rewriting. You'll be in the editor on a new book that has all the same pictures and text as the original. Now you can translate it all to English (say) and publish that one. Then you'll have 2 separate books.

Make sense?

gb

Hi, Gary!

Thank you very much for your explanations. I´ve just published the books both in Spanish and English. They look great to my son Pau. However, there is a problem with the pronunciation of books in Spanish in general and in the one we have just produced in particular, I´m afraid it  doesn´t sound Spanish at all. How could we improve that?. I offer to help if I can in anyway. I think this place is just great. Next monday, Pau will be showing it to everyone in school. He´ll be so proud.

Thank you very much again

ANA

Pau and I have been working on our first book to publish in Tar heel reader and before carrying on, I would like to ask a couple of questions:

1. Is it safe to use photos of my child in the book? He gets more motivated if he sees himself appearing in the story but I can see not many of the writers have included their own image. I wonder whether it is allowed.

2. We would like to publish it both in Spanish ( his native tongue) and English. Once the book in Spanish is finished do I have to go over the whole process again if I want to do the same thing but in English?

Sorry, maybe these questions are answered somewhere but I couldn´t find it.

Thank you very much for your help

Peter

petercleary said:

The site is great and ive enjoyed putting afew books together. I will be using it with beginner adult readers and would prefer not to have some of the words obscured by the back and forward buttons. Anyone know of a solution for this.

Peter

I'm glad you like the site. The secret to avoiding overlap is to write short texts for your books. One short sentence per page is most appropriate. If you have to get both sentences in, use the same picture on 2 adjacent pages and split the text between them.

Peter