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EXCELLENT Phonics software with tons of fun things to do.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: November 23, 2001
Author: Amazon User

This phonics software is MUCH better than the Jumpstart Phonics!! You can spend all day trying to do all the fun activities. My five year old son loved it. Very good teaching tool. I HIGHLY recommend it!

Great investment for your child

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 31, 2006
Author: Amazon User

I love this software. My daughter loved this CD-ROM between the age of 4-6 before she went to school and now my son really likes it and it's great for him because he has problems pronouncing words. He enjoyed playing with it so much, that now he is able to match words with pictures and sound out several words.

The Reader Rabbit Toddler software has not yet been outgrown. To get the most out of it, your child should have the ability to hold and click a mouse, and should already have basic recognition of capital and lower-case letters. The lowest level is perfect for my child but would have been too difficult at ages 3 - 3 1/2. The software teaches both letter and word recognition as well as phonics. The games are cute and when your child gets tired of learning to read there are fun songs and graphics to listen to with "reading propaganda" lyrics about how fun and important it is to learn to read.

This is an excellent early reading CD-ROM. Buy it here, since most stores only stock games and the more lackluster "educational" programs.

Well my son likes it....

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: April 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

... but it's not as good as some of the others. Flat graphics and unimaginative games make this one less than stellar. For the 3-6 year old set I'd recommend Bob the Builder, or Clifford. However, your child will probably love it as much as mine does.

Recomend this program for pre-schoolers

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: July 15, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Excellent program for children who know their letters and are begining to understand the sounds those letters make. Parental assistance needed to get started, then child is able to run with program. Great progress reports, show which words the child needs help with. Used these to make "drill cards" on index cards for long rides, to practice difficult words, and "sight" words, which the progress reports separate out from words that can be sounded out. Program matches childs ability. Highly recomend as a tool to assist a child to learn to read.

My child learned to read!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: May 02, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I highly recommend this CD series. My son started playing with it at the library when he was 3, and learned so fast that we bought the program for our home. After just a few months, he's sounding out words, reading street signs, and is very enthusiastic about learning. Mattie the rabbit and her friends are cute sweet creatures that captivate a child's attention, and their antics are funny enough to make adults laugh. My son likes the different accents used and the animation as well. An A+!

Excellent Learning Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 7 / 8
Date: November 24, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I bought this program a few months ago for my three year old daughter. She *loves* it and is really learning from it. Like all the Reader Rabbit Games we've purchased so far, it is very well done. The program runs smoothly, the animation is good and attention grabbing, and Reader Rabbit and Mat the Mouse are very endearing to children. This game keeps my child's attention and makes learning phonics so much fun she doesn't even realize she's picking it up. We do this game together with me working the mouse because she isn't quite good enough with the mouse yet to do it solo. [However, a child who has good command of "mouse use" could easily do this game on their own]. We are really enjoying it!

Just like the other Reader Rabbits, this is great!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: December 26, 2001
Author: Amazon User

My five year old son has been growing up on Reader Rabbit, and can't get enough of it. He LOVES this stuff, and you can't believe how much children learn from it. This and the other phonics reading software is just as good as all the other Reader Rabbit software. GREAT! Buy it!

Great kids program!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: May 19, 2006
Author: Amazon User

My 5-year old had some initial problems learning this, as some of the stuff is rather unintuitive. You have to pick up letters, identify words, do some drag-and-dropping (which is not always easy for small hands handling a computer mouse) but once the steep learning curve is over, it's a wealth for any kid learning to read and write! Highly recommended!

doesn't run on mac os x

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: September 02, 2007
Author: Amazon User

there's no support information available regarding failure to run on mac os x platform. i was unaware of the problem because the product is advertised as macintosh compatible, and only subsequently discovered that others have run into the same difficulty after searching online for troubleshooting help.

Buggy Software!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 5 / 5
Date: October 19, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Excellent game, but I've got v1.3 (under XP, and tried on two PCs) and it has a bad software bug with the piano game, as other reviewers have stated. Otherwise I'd give it 5 stars.

This is what I got back from customer support regarding the bug:

"Thank you for your inquiry and for choosing Riverdeep, Broderbund, The
Learning Company, and Edmark for your software needs.

Unfortunately, this issue does not have a resolution. I want to apologize
for this inconvenience."

It's still well worth the purchase if you're willing to sit with your child during the piano game to try to prevent any confusion and frustration.

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