Product Information

Reader Rabbit's Interactive Reading Journey 2 builds on the tradition and success of Reader Rabbit's Interactive Reading Journey 1, and provides another step toward fostering a lifelong love of stories, reading, and language. Playful language, colorful animations, and engaging sound effects provide a delightful environment for children to explore as they build their first-grade reading skills.

Within the graphic- and sound-rich "Reading Lands," the program includes 30 progressively challenging storybooks, supported by carefully structured skill-building lessons - activities that focus on reading, listening, speaking, and thinking.

Because children can choose whether to explore a Reading Land, read a storybook, or play a skill house game, learning is self-guided and children are in control of their own learning experience.


Educational Features

• Allow children to enjoy continuing success in reading
• Develop young readers' reading and thinking skills and strategies
• Help children use letter-patterns, letter-sounds, and contextual clues in decoding new words
• Assist young readers in recognizing multi-syllabic and compound words
• Further develop and expand on sigh-word vocabulary
• Enable children to read 30 short storybooks independently
• Continue to develop oral reading skills, including word emphasis, voice inflection, and pacing

Fun Activities Include

The Reading Lands
Journey down the fabulous Reading Road with Reader Rabbit and his friends Sam the Lion, Mat the Mouse, and Buster the Car. In each of the 15 Reading Lands, listen for the poem that tells you what to do. Then explore the scene and make surprising things happen. In every Reading Land, you'll also find two storybooks.

Storybooks
Every Reading Land has two storybooks to read. You'll learn new words in every book and read about Sam and his storybook friends. Just click on a book to open it. Then listen to the story and read along. When you finish reading a storybook and close it, a storybook star appears on the book. You must read all six storybooks and complete the skill house activities in a unit before you can rebuild Buster's Bridge and continue your journey into the next unit.

Skill Houses
Take time out from your journey to play some word games. It's great fun, and all sorts of things can happen.  In each Reading Land, you'll discover a skill house - Mit's Sound Sorter, Ben's Rhyme time, or Silly Syllables. You need to finish all of the games in each skill house in a unit before you can enter the last game, Buster's Word Bridge, and move onto the next unit

Mit's Sound Sorter
Mit's Sound Sorter is the first skill house in each unit. Listen to the words Mit the Monkey says, and help him sort gemstones. Click on Mit to hear the instructions again, or on the gemstone he is holding to hear a word repeated.

Ben's Rhyme Time
The second skill house in each unit. Help Ben and his crew make sandwiches to feed Sam the Lion and his friends on their reading journey. Click above the word that rhymes with the word Ben says. Words will stack to make sandwich. Sandwiches in the picnic basket show your progress.

Silly Syllables
The third skill house in each unit. Put syllables together to form words for Crooning, Caterpillars to sing. Listen to the word the announcer says, then click on a syllable in that word. Click on a syllable to place it on a stage to build words. Click on an empty seat to put a syllable back. The creatures in the balcony show your progress.

Buster's Word Bridge
Buster's Word Bridge is the last activity in each unit. You must read all the books and complete all the skill house games in a unit before you can play Buster's Word Bridge. Click on the sentence to hear it spoken. Click on the word that best completes the sentence to replace a plank in the bridge. You must rebuild the bridge for each character to cross.  After everyone has crossed the bridge, you are on your way to the next unit.


Windows Requirements

• Windows 95/98/Me
• 486DX/25 MHz or better
• 8MB memory (RAM)
• Hard disk with 2MB free disk space, 12MB to save a recorded storybook
• Double speed CD-ROM drive
• 256 color SVGA monitor
• DOS 5.0 or higher
• Windows compatible sound card with microphone input 
• Microphone (required for record & playback)
• Mouse

Macintosh Requirements

• System 7.0.1 to 9.0
• 68030/25 MHz or better
• 8MB memory RAM
• Hard disk with 1MB free disk space, 11MB to save a recorded storybook
• Double speed CD-ROM drive
• 256 color display
• Microphone input 
• Microphone  (required for record & playback)
• Mouse

#30826	School Version (Single Copy)	$ 34.95
#30825	School Version Lab Pack (For 5 Computers)	54.95

• Teacher's Guide - The teacher's guide is designed to help you plan for computer use, manage technology projects and connect the educational content of the software program to your classroom curriculum. Many of the School Editions offer strategies and activities developed in keeping with approaches advocated in the National Standards.
• Student Activities - Activities to further the development of your students' individual skills. Many of these activities are designed for cooperative learning groups. Some can be set up or activity centers where students can work independently. And many activities can be extended and integrated with students' work at the computer
• Blackline Masters - Reproducibles that complement the lesson plans and activities.
• User's Guide - Provides all the information needed to run the program, including illustrations and directions for all menu items.