| Description
Develop students' abilities to decode hundreds of
words and expand their reading comprehension. Students practice reading
skills with more than 125 lessons and apply their gained knowledge in
nine wonderful books.
Special
features include the use of both phonics and whole language
methodologies to ensure students' reading success and the ability to
use IBM Speech Recognition Technology with this product. | | |
Learning
Opportunities
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Review Letter
Sounds |
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Blend Multiple
Letter Sounds |
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Review Short
Vowels |
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Learn Long
Vowels |
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Differentiate
Vowel Sounds |
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Read Short-
& Long-Vowel Words |
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Identify New
Sight Words |
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Build 3- to
5-Letter Words |
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Expand
Vocabulary |
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Sound Out New
Words |
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Build Reading
Comprehension |
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Get Meaning
from Context |
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Follow
Story
Lines |
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Read Aloud |
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Read Lots of
Books! |
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Features
Map Your Adventure
Search for the missing bookmobile in 11 exciting undersea locations
that you can go back to and play in again and again!
Play
Paint-a-Word with Manray
Correctly say aloud what Manray has drawn and written, and he'll use
the words in funny sentences! It's the fun way to learn short and long
vowels.
Deliver
Undersea Mail
These crazy codfish need help sorting out their mail. Can you match
written words to the vowel sounds each fish is waiting for?
Sight-Read
with Word Bubbles
Follow the Word Whale and learn to recognize over 50 common words
written on the bubbles. Read a word correctly into a microphone, and
its bubble bursts with a pop!
Help
Marvin Pop Blend Bubbles!
Listen to the sounds that letter combinations make, then give Marvin
the Marlin the one he needs. His bubble-popping antics reward your
answer.
Make
Electric Words
Use your new reading skills to recharge Reading Rover's battery! The
more words you build, the more electricity Ernie Eel generates.
Windows®
Requires:
Win 95/98 or higher including XP or Vista
486/66 MHz, Pentium® or better
Hard disk with 8 MB free
8 MB memory (RAM), 16 MB recommended
Super VGA graphics, 640x480, 256 color monitor
Double speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
Windows-compatible sound card
Macintosh® Requires:
Mac 7.5.6 - 9.x68040 (25 MHz or faster
recommended) or PowerPC (*NOT COMPATIBLE WITH OS X)
Hard disk
6 MB memory (RAM) unused, 7 MB for PowerPC
Double-speed (2X) or faster CD-ROM drive
640 x 480, 256 colors
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