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Reading


Disney Ready to Read with Pooh
Age Range: 3 - 6
Learning: Develops pre-reading skills; alphabet recognition and order, drawing letters, building words and simple spelling, word recognition and basic listening comprehension.
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings:   Educational: 4.7  Design: 4.5   Ease Of Use 4.3
Introduction: Disney's Ready to Read with Pooh is a well designed introductory reading program that will help young children develop many of the foundation skills that will allow them to begin to read. See More



Clifford the Big Red Dog: Reading
Age Range: 4 - 6
Learning: Letter & sound recognition, sound-symbol association, picture-word association learning and basic spelling.
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings:   Educational: 4.6  Design: 4.5   Ease Of Use 4.2
Introduction: Clifford Reading is an early literacy program that focuses on phonics, letter, and sound recognition. The game is centred around the lives of Emily Elizabeth and her big red dog Clifford as they explore Birdwell Island looking for adventures. The object of the game is to meet their friends and to help them solve their word and letter problems. See More



Clifford the Big Red Dog: Phonics
Age Range: 4 - 6
Learning: Letter recognition, beginning letter sounds, rhyming words, three-sound words, picture/word matching, silent ‘E’ rule.
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings:   Educational: 4.6  Design: 4.6   Ease Of Use 5.0
Introduction: Clifford Phonics is an early reading program designed around one of children’s favourite characters, Clifford the Big Red Dog.The story behind this game is that Clifford and his friends are going to help out at the Wordy Word Carnival. There are 12 different booths to visit, each one contains something fun for the player See More



Let's Go Read 1: An Island Adventure
Age Range: 4 - 6
Learning: Upper and lower case letter recognition and the sounds they make, short and long vowels, how to sound out and build simple words and basic word recognition
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings:   Educational: 5.0  Design: 4.5  Ease Of Use 4.5
Introduction: Let’s Go Read is a reading tutorial for beginning readers. The tutorial is introduced as an adventure game in which Robbie the Raccoon must learn to read in order to understand the sign that has just been nailed to his tree. The player’s job is to help Robbie on his quest, as Emily takes him to Letter Island. See More




Ariel's Story Studio
Age Range: 4 - 9
Learning: Exercises basic sight reading skills, encourages basic writing practice and encourages visual and musical creativity. Teaches selected word definitions and synonyms.
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings:  Educational: 4.0  Design: 4.5  Ease Of Use 4.3
Introduction: Ariel's Story Studio is an interactive storybook and "learn to read" designed program using the original story of the Little Mermaid. In addition to the storybook, the program provides a rich range of creative activities that helps develop reading and language skills and knowledge of your child. See More



Carmen Sandiego Word Detective
Age Range: 8 - 14
Learning: Exercises and reinforces knowledge of spelling and spelling rules, punctuation, grammar rules involving sentence structure, punctuation, subject verb agreement, parts of speech, vocabulary (10,000 words), prefixes, suffixes, and using words in context.
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings:   Educational: 4.8  Design: 4.5  Ease Of Use 4.0
Introduction: Carmen Sandiego Word Detective is a spy adventure. Carmen has invented a "Babble On" machine that can turn a well spoken person into a "babbling idiot". She has kidnapped twelve of your agents. Your job in this program, is to free all twelve agents in order to stop her grand plan to achieve world illiteracy. See More


Robinson Crusoe
Age Range: 8 - 16
Learning: Exposure to an introductory version of Daniel Defoe's classic tale of a castaway on a deserted island. Intended to engender interest in one of the great classics for younger readers
Platform: Windows & Mac
Ratings:   Educational: 4.0  Design: 4.5  Ease Of Use 4.0
Introduction: This classic story of a shipwrecked mariner on a deserted island is one of the greatest adventure stories in all of English literature. For a new generation, it has been recreated and creatively expanded as an interactive software program that it can be explored simply as a narrative experience or as a game to test your sleuthing skills or, if you wish, you can interweave the two. See More