Franklin HW-1216 Children's Speller and Dictionary

by Franklin Electronics

Product Details

Product Manual [107kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 5 x 1 x 3 inches ; 4 ounces
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0002OP81A
• Item model number: HW-1216
• Batteries: 4 AAA batteries required.
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
  • #3 in Electronics > Office Electronics > Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri & Translators > English Dictionaries
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 8, 2006

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Introduce you child to the wonderful world of words

A dictionary is a window to the world. Let your child soar with a dictionary that is fun and educational, offering personalized greetings, animations, spell corrections, a crossword solver, and 7 different games including "Fun with Spanish" and "Fun with French". Created specifically for children ages 6 & up to help learn spelling, writing, and grammar. Contains over 40,000 simple, brief definitions. Includes a math tutor and calculator; a printing and cursive handwriting animation feature demonstrates how to write any letter combination, word or series of letters entered.

This children's dictionary offers:

• Over 40,000 definitions, written specifically for children ages 6 and up
• Spell correction for over 46,000 words
• Jump feature allowing children to jump automatically to related definitions (animations are displayed during jumps)
• Personalized greetings and messages
• Print and cursive handwriting animations for any word or series of letters that the child enters
• Six educational games: Hangman, Jumble, Flashcards, Tic-Tac-Toe (1 and 2 player), Guess the Word
• Animations and graphics
• Arithmetic tutor and calculator
• "Fun with Spanish" and "Fun with French," which encourage interest in different languages

Features Franklin's exclusive:

• Confusables
• Crossword Solver
• Context-sensitive help text
• MatchMaker
• User List (words can be used in games)

Also Includes:

• Adjustable contrast
• Adjustable handwriting speed
• Two game skill levels

Note: Requires 4 AAA batteries (not included).

Product Description

Homework Wiz - Childrens Dictionary, 40k definitions

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 36 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not as well-made as we would hope, July 13, 2007

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L. Schaerr "noclocksinthegarden" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Franklin HW-1216 Children's Speller and Dictionary (Office Product)

We bought three of these for our three children, ages 11, 9, 7, to use with writing and to play with on road trips. The lids off all three broke off without any abuse at all. They are just not that well-made. But even though the lids broke off, the kids can still use them. Our oldest, almost 11, has repeatedly found words it does not know that can be added. But, he was disappointed that it didn't know more words.

29 of 32 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Helpful for homework, October 10, 2007

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Moonie "Moonie" (chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Franklin HW-1216 Children's Speller and Dictionary (Office Product)

I bought this for my 4th grader who is bombarded with homework every day. This has been very helpful in assisting him with his homework. He has told me that it has made a difference in getting his work done more efficiently and quickly. I love the spelling feature which corrects him if he spells a word incorrectly. He uses the dictionary the most which saves him the time of looking it up in a traditional dictionary. Well worth the money.

24 of 26 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Spell Checker is weak; word bank is quite limited, April 7, 2009

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Orlando Girl (Oviedo, FL, United States) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Franklin HW-1216 Children's Speller and Dictionary (Office Product)

I bought this for my 7-year-old daughter so that I wouldn't have to constantly help her spell words. But the spell checker on this is very weak. There have been numerous times she'd spell a word phonetically and the suggested word list of correctly spelled words was nowhere near the word she was trying to use. (Oftentimes because the word itself was not part of the word bank.) Yet my 20-year-old Seiko Spell Checker/Dictionary/Thesaurus often suggested the correctly spelled word immediately (based on the same wrong spelling). If you are simply looking for a limited spell checker/dictionary of commonly used words, this is okay. If you want a spell checker that helps your child to spell words without your assistance, look at other brands/versions. This one seems more geared to being cute (saying hello to your child when they turn it on) and offering games for them to play. It doesn't do as much to help young, enthusiastic writers to broaden their vocabulary and enhance their spelling ability. I'm going with a better version because this one is more of a toy than a tool.