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Learning to Read with Reader Rabbit

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 68 / 68
Date: July 13, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I ordered this software for my almost 4 year old who loved the Reader Rabbit Toddler software, but had outgrown it. 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.

First Rate!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 14
Date: August 27, 2001
Author: Amazon User

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

Reader Rabbit Learn To Read With Phonics.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: November 20, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I love this software. My son really likes it. I bought it because he had 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.

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!

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!

My daughter learned to read by her fourth birthday

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 26 / 27
Date: December 06, 2001
Author: Amazon User

(...)We moved to Japan, and I ordered the Reading with Phonics game.
She used to play about an hour a day sometimes, she just loved it. I would also play school with her sometimes, and we read lots of stories together every night at bedtime.

English spelling is quite difficult, because it is so irregular. However, we were surprised to find our daughter could read through books that she had never seen before, or only been read a few times, by the time she was nearly four. On her fourth birthday, she could read through a book like "Bunnycakes", with two or three sentences per page.

I give a fair amount of credit to the Reader Rabbit games, as well as Blue Clues reading games. My wife was not keen on letting her play with the computer so much, but I think it was
quite effective for teaching the brute rote memorization needed to pronounce English spelling, and to become familiar with
letter combinations such as "ch", "sh" , "gh", etc, and their irregular rules.

As a side benefit, our daughter can type pretty well and
use both mouse and trackpad. (...)

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!

Best learn to read software program

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 15 / 15
Date: February 04, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is absolutely the best learning to read software game currently available. It's so rich! Kids learn phonics and sight words. Parents of impatient kids, beware. There is quite a bit of repetition in this game. But it does the job really well. If you want real, tangible results with a reading software game (and that is hard to find), try this game out.

Just the ticket

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 60 / 60
Date: February 10, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When our 5-year-old got into kindergarten, we were surprised to find out how much they expect out of kids that age nowadays.

Just 5 years ago, when our first one was kindergarten age, they used that time to start to introduce reading concepts. Now, they expect them to know the basics already and just delve into more advanced topics. Even the teacher said she's still getting used to the new level they're expected to teach at.

So, we had to do outside catch-up work, and this program was right on-target. It led our kindergartener step-by-step to a firm grasp of the material - his improvement was immediately visible. And he's had so much fun that he hates to stop playing.

This is a combination of two programs that were previously separate. The first one (Road to Reading) goes through each letter of the alphabet and reinforces the sound of the letter, plus presents site words using that letter. The second one (Word Factory) picks up there and introduces how to build words from the basic sounds.

I should probably point out that this program does not include any tutorial material, so it can't be used by itself to teach a child phonics. It is, however, a great set of exercises to practice and extend what they've learned elsewhere.

I would also recommend that this be used with some amount of parental involvement. In spite of its game-like format, it should probably be treated more like homework, having an adult available to get them started and to make sure they're using each concept correctly.

A "must-have" for beginning readers....

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 12
Date: April 13, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is one of those "must-have" items if your child is learning to read...

We were sorry that we hadn't bought it sooner. Our daughter is the youngest child in the class, and was having trouble with reading due to easy distractibility. We tried to "force her" to concentrate, which was both frustrating and futile.

After purchasing this CD, and the companion "I Can Read with Phonics" from Amazon, the child began to play the games and fell in love with it. Every night, she insists on playing for as much as 2 hours at a time! She does not need to be forced to learn because she is having fun, and is less aware that she is actually learning and increasing her skills.

If your child is in Kindergarten and you want a head-start, or the child is in first-grade and having difficulty, I highly recommend this CD.

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