Select the Text: A Macintosh Moving Window Application

The moving-window technique has typically been used to expose one word of text at a time. This Macintosh application adapted that technique to expose one sentence at a time. Text is input into files that can be ordered in any desired sequence. The screen display consists of blacked-out sentences that are exposed by clicking on the desired segment. Each segment is a sentence in length. Text is displayed an entire screen at a time and text formatting conventions can be incorporated into the display. This application permits students to select sentences in any order and in any location of the text. For text longer than one screen, scrolling brings up additional text. The application records the sequence in which the sentences were read and how long they were read on each exposure. The sequence, process time per word and rate per word for each sentence are computed and printed in an output summary table.