Franklin SSA-2045 User Manual

BOOKMANâ

E L E C T R O N I C B O O K C A R D

Speaking

Spelling Ace®

USER’S GUIDE

SSA-2045

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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 letters 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.

Direction Keys

Moves through text or menus, or moves the cursor or highlight.

DN UP 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.”

	Other Keys
BACK	Erases a letter or backs up.
CAP	Shifts the keys to type capitals or
	punctuation.
CARD	Exits the book you are reading.
CLEAR	Clears your entry.
CLEAR
ENTER	Enters a word, selects a menu
	item, or starts a highlight.
HELP	Displays help messages.
MENU	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.
	Key Combinations*

+ Q - P

+ DN

or UP

CAP +

Types numbers.

Goes to the next or previous handwritten letter or number.

Goes to the top or bottom of a word list or menu.

* Hold the first key while pressing the other key.

Installing a Book Card

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.

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.

Selecting a Book

Once you have installed a book card in your BOOKMAN, you can select which book you want to use. Here’s an example.

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.

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		Changing the Settings

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 selected a book card, the color keys function 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.

You can adjust the keyboard echo, shutoff time, and screen contrast of this book. You can also change all the letters 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 BOOKMAN stays on if you forget to turn it off. Contrast refers to how light or dark the screen is.

1.Press MENU .

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.

Viewing a Demonstration Hearing Letters and Words

Before you start using your new book card, you may want to see a brief demonstration of what it can do. Here’s how.

1.Press MENU .

2.Use the arrow keys to highlight Setup and press ENTER .

3.Use the arrow keys to highlight View Demo, and press ENTER to start the demonstration.

4.To stop the demonstration at any time, press CLEAR .

Help is Always at Hand

You can view a help message at virtually any time by pressing HELP .

Press	or DN to read the help.
Press	BACK to exit the message.

To read about how to use the keys, select Tutorial from the Setup menu.

If you have a BOOKMAN with a speaker or a headphone jack, you can hear letters, numbers, and punctuation marks pronounced as you type them and words after 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.

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