A great program for children ages 4-6to build reading confidence!
Product Information
A step toward fostering a lifelong love of stories reading and language.
This programs presents a systematic approach to learning to read. Alliterativespeech colorful animations and engaging sound effects provide a delightfulenvironment for children to explore as they begin to read.
Within the graphic and sound-rich "Reading Lands" the programincludes 64 progressively challenging storybooks supported by over 100carefully structured skill-building lessons and more!
Because children can choose whether to explore a Reading Land read a storybookor play a word game learning is self-guided and children are in control oftheir own learning experience.
Unique A.D.A.P.T. Learning Technology
Learning is a journey and each child learns at a different pace and has aunique set of abilities. The ClueFinders A.D.A.P.T. Learning Technologyconstantly monitors your child's abilities develops skills adjusts difficultylevels provides help and tracks progress. Always challenging and rewardingA.D.A.P.T. is the most effective way to build skills confidence and a life-longlove of learning!
Skills Learned
- Phonics
- Letter and Letter-pattern recognition
- Sight-word vocabulary
Activities Include
Letter Lands
In each of the 20 Letter Lands children are introduced to a consonant letter orletter blend. When clicked on many objects beginning with that specific letteror blend come to life.
Storybooks
Each Letter Land has two storybooks to read and the storybooks help childrendevelop visual and auditory word recognition and acquire a sight wordvocabulary. Children can read the stories on their own or hear them dramatizedby a cast of characters.
Skill Houses
Each Letter Land has a skill house where children play word games that helpbuild their literacy skills: listening speaking reading and thinking.
- Nan's Nest
- Ben's Ant Band
- Mit's Mess
- Fishtown Follies
Product Features
- Gives children immediate success and builds confidence in reading
- Meets a young reader's need to manipulate words
- Helps children sound out words and put sounds together to make new words
- Develop letter-pattern recognition and letter sound association
- Develop a basic sight word vocabulary
- Enable children to read 64 short storybooks independently
- Develop oral reading skills including word emphasis voice inflection and pacing
Windows Requirements
- 486DX/66 MHz or better
- IBM PC and compatibles
- Windows 95/98/Me/XP/Vista
- 16MB RAM
- Hard disk with 32MB of free disk space
- Double-speed CD-ROM drive
- 256-color SVGA
- Windows compatible sound card
- Speakers
- Mouse
