Children will take afascinating journey along the Reading Road!
Product Information
A step toward fostering a lifelong love of stories reading and language. Insearch of imagination - Help Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion on their quest tofind their imagination. Travel to colorful and exciting Reading Lands full offun puzzles animated stories and clickable surprises. Children will learn thatreading thinking and writing are the keys to a world of imagination andadventure.
Playful language colorful animations and engaging sound effects provide adelightful environment for children to explore as they build their readingskills. Within the graphic and sound-rich "Reading Lands" the programincludes 20 progressively challenging storybooks supported by carefullystructured skill-building lessons at 3 skill levels.Because children can choose whether to explore a Reading Land read a storybookor play a skill house game learning is self-guided and children are in controlof their 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!
- A. Assesses Abilities
- D. Develops Skills
- A. Adjusts Levels
- P. Provides Help
- T. Tracks Progress
Skills Learned
- Vocabulary
- Advanced Phonics
- Writing and Creativity
- Predicting
- Rhyming Words
- Combining Syllables
- Compound Words
- Consonant Blends
- Long and Short Vowels
- Superlatives
- Reading Aloud
- Antonyms & Synonyms
- Visual and Auditory Word Recognition
Activities Include
Reading Lands
The 15 Reading Lands provide a fascinating journey along the Reading Road.Children help Vowel Owl find her voice they look for objects that stressspecific long and short vowel sounds. And vocabulary development continues aschildren explore silly animations that provide concrete examples ofprepositional phrases comparatives and superlatives.
Storybooks
The 30 storybooks (two per Reading Land) help young readers develop visual andauditory word recognition and build their reading vocabulary. Children can readalong with the characters or read the stories on their own.
Skill Houses
Each Reading Land has a skill house where children play word games that helpbuild their listening reading and thinking skills.
Mit's Sound Sorter
Children focus on the beginning and ending sounds of words. All skill houseshave 3 challenge levels. Success in each skill house is tracked and a child'sperformance can be viewed in the Progress Report.
Ben's Rhyme Time
Children discover the basics of rhyming.
Silly Syllables
Children discover how syllables make up words as they build familiar wordssyllable by syllable children develop the important phonics skills needed.
Buster's Word Bridge
A word recognition activity and sentence completion activity. Childrenwill need to rebuild the broken bridges and get all the characters across. Sillysurprises greet players as they demonstrate their reading proficiency.
Product Features
- Allows children to enjoy continuing success in reading
- Develop young reader's reading and thinking skills and strategies
- Helps children use letter-patterns letter sounds and contextual clues in decoding new words
- Assist young readers in recognizing multi-syllable and compound words
- Further develop and expand on sight-word vocabulary
- Enables children to read 20 short storybooks independently
- Develops oral reading skills including word emphasis voice inflection and pacing
- Multiple levels - move from simple to more complex concepts at a pace that suits each player
Windows Requirements
- Windows 98 Me 2000 XP Vista
- 486DX/66 MHz or faster
- 16 MB RAM
- 20 MB free hard disk space
- SVGA monitor 256 colors
- Windows-compatible sound card & speakers
- 2X or faster CD-ROM drive
Macintosh Requirements
- Mac OS 7.1–9.2 OS X Classic mode
- PowerPC® or faster
- 16 MB RAM
- 20 MB free hard disk space
- 13" or larger monitor 256 colors
- 2X or faster CD-ROM drive
