It's
Reading Time with Blue!
PRODUCT INFORMATION
Extra!
Extra! Steve has a great idea - he wants to create The Big New Gazette
with Blue and you!
Preschoolers work with Blue and Steve to create their own newspaper,
the Big News Gazette, while practicing basic reading skills. Players
design newspapers by completing reading-based activities such as word
matching and interviewing to compile and collect news stories, which
are then added to the paper. Reading activities relate to the various
newspaper sections and help teach skills such as reading comprehension,
word recognition and vocabulary.
In the storymaker kids make stories with cards that have pictures and
words. After stories are created they are read aloud and can then be
put in the
Gazette. Children find cards all over Blue's world to add to the
storymaker.
Outside is a fun card
game to play with Little Paprika, Mr Salt and Mrs Pepper. Children
match cards with pictures and words. The first one to match all their
cards wins.
Mailbox has the scoop on
some news but the stories are not finished. Blue needs help to find the
chicks party hats at the farm and find a flag for a sandcastle at the
beach. There are more fun stories to explore and complete at the farm,
beach and neighborhood.
In addition to the fun
activities, Blue's world is filled with words that are read aloud when
children click on them.
Some of the reading activities featured in Blue's Reading Time
Activities include Interviews, a choose-your-own-adventure type game,
which allows kids to answer questions to create their own stories, and
Dictionary, which encourages preschoolers to match words and
definitions with pictures in five different scenes such as Back Yard
and Beach. Never before seen characters such as Dot, Fan, Sarge Ant and
Scanner introduce skills essential to reading in this fun, yet
structured, curriculum-based program.
SKILLS LEARNED
Blue and her friends help strengthen early reading
skills, including:
- Writing
- Word and Letter recognition
- Comprehension and Prediction
- Listening comprehension
Product Features
- Collect words to build
stories
- Investigate the
neighborhood for the latest news
- Interview Blue’s friends
so they can illustrate their stories
- Play a round of the
word-match card game
- Words are read aloud
when children
click on them
Requirements - Windows
- Pentium 166
- Microsoft Windows 95/98
- 32 MB RAM
- 4x CD-ROM drive
Requirements - Macintosh
- PowerPC 132 MHz
- OS System 7.5.3 or later
- 32 MB RAM
- 4x CD-ROM drive
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