Franklin HW 216 Homework Wiz Plus

Other products by Franklin Electronics

Product Details

Product Manual [113kb PDF]

• Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 3.8 x 1 inches ; 25 pounds
• 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: B000059YXF
• Item model number: HW 216
• Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank

  Popular in this category: (What's this?)

  #31 in

  Electronics > Office Electronics > Electronic Dictionaries, Thesauri & Translators > English Dictionaries

• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes
• Date first available at Amazon.com: February 20, 2001

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
Make learning fun for your child age 6 and up with the Franklin Homework Wiz Plus. The Homework Wiz gives children access to more than 40,000 definitions and spell correction for 46,000 words. The jump feature allows children to jump to related definitions, with animations displayed during jumps.

The Homework Wiz Plus also features personalized greetings and messages and print and cursive handwriting animations for any word or series of letters that the child enters. It comes with six educational games including hangman, flash cards, and ticktacktoe. Fun with Spanish and Fun with French encourage interest in different languages. It also has an arithmetic tutor and calculator. View words and numbers on the LCD screen and enter information on the colorful minikeyboard.

The Homework Wiz Plus is powered by four AAA batteries (not included). It comes with adjustable contrast, adjustable handwriting speed, two skill levels, and a one-year warranty.

Product Description
MANUFACTURER WARRANTY:andnbsp;andnbsp;90 DAYS

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

58 of 58 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My Daughter I Now a Much Better Speller, January 8, 2002

By	MartyHansen (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

I bought the Franklin MW 216 Homework Wiz Plus for my daughter, who is eight. She loves it.

My daughter's weakest subject has always been spelling. She doesn't have a lot of patience, and looking up words in a dictionary was difficult for her (especially since she didn't know how to spell the word in the firt place).

My daughter, fortunately, is into gadgets (Walkmans, Gameboys, Bop-Its, etc.) so the Franklin made spelling fun. She likes how the Franklin will greet her by name; how she can create a list of words to review (like her spelling words for the week); how it corrects the spelling even if she inputs it wrong (which is key); and how it gives her the definition and parts of speech for each word (noun, adjective, etc.) which she needs to compete her homework.

The large two-line display is easy for her to read. She likes the fun games that are included, (Hangman and Guess That Word being her favorite). She even likes how the Homework Wiz will scroll a cute picture across the screen prior to giving the definition (like a reveal), and how it even has a calculator function to help her with her evening's math problems.

The Franklin Homework Wiz Plus, being a dictionary only, is perfect for my daughter who is too young to need a thesaurus. (When the time comes, I'll graduate her up to the excellent Franklin MWD-1440 Dictionary and Thesaurus, which her older brother and I both use.)

In the meantime, she's very happy with the Franklin Homework Wiz Plus, which she utilizes every evening to do her homework -- and every week to practice her spelling, (and which several of her classmates also have and carry in their backpacks).

I don't know if the Franklin Homework Wiz was the primary reason for the improvement we've seen in her spelling. (I'd like to believe it was the weekly coaching that my wife and I have provided that did the trick.) But the Franklin certainly made spelling (and looking up words) easier and more fun. My wife and I -- and my daughter -- are all very happy.

36 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Franklin HW 216 Homework Wiz Plus, January 21, 2004

By	Ellen M. (California, USA) - See all my reviews

My ten year old daugther is making great use out of the Franklin HW 216. In the car on the way to school she can easily review her spelling words. The big display is great for easy spell checking and the hangman game helps with the spelling too. The problem with the device is that it is very difficult to get the very small philips head screw out of the battery lid so that the four AAA bateries can be installed. I ended after almost an hour of trying opitcal screw drivers having to drill out the screw with a fine drill. Franklin customer service says this is a problem that they are aware of and hope to re-design the battery compartment in the future.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars What a great idea!, November 29, 2001

By A Customer

This compact dictionary resolves the delima of carrying a heavy dictionary back and forth to school. My son keeps the homework wix in his backpack and is able to do his homework at aftercare, home, or wherever without breaking his back. The games are really good too.