Reader Rabbit®

Reader Rabbit Reading Builder

Picking up the phonics instruction where Reader Rabbit® Learn to Read with Phonics leaves off, the all-new Reader Rabbit Reading Builder for Schools introduces students to blends, digraphs, additional vowel sounds, and spelling patterns in a systematic and progressive way, within an engaging story context. Reading Builder utilizes a research-based, balanced approach to literacy instruction as students practice and apply their phonemic knowledge to a wide variety of decodable texts and authentic literature, from comic strips to a chapter book. Students' reading comprehension is then "tested" through fun mini-activities at the end of each text passage that encourage them to respond to literature, relate reading to their own experiences, make predictions, and read for a purpose.



Features -

• Explicit, systematic instruction in phonics, with story reading, skill-building games, and writing activities
• A variety of texts to address multiple learning styles and interests: newspaper article, comic strips, poems, journal entries, and a chapter book
• Enhanced Educator Version (EEV) includes whole class progress reporting, assessment tests, additional "think-about-this" text comprehension questions, and printable skill-practice activities
• Two ways to play: practice specific skills or learn through a captivating adventure
• Record and playback

Learning Opportunities
• Develops core reading skills in phonics, spelling, rhyming, reading comprehension, and writing
• Provides practice with identifying beginning and ending consonant blends, digraphs, long and short vowel sounds, word families, vowel combinations, compound words, syllables, prefixes, contractions, and suffixes
• Builds vocabulary

Reader Rabbit Interactive Reading Journey 2

This interactive activity program continues the adventures of Reader Rabbit, Sam the Lion, and Matt the Mouse as they search for Sam's imagination in 15 reading lands made up of sequenced, multilevel activities. These familiar friends are joined by a host of newcomers including Buster the Car, Sparky the Imagination, and Booker T. Frog. Each activity builds on newly learned skills as children read, listen, respond, click on animated "hot spots," and think their way through Interactive Reading Journey 2. Children strengthen reading skills with the 30 original storybooks featured in the program. The storybooks are also provided in soft cover print versions. In addition, 60 thought-provoking questions invite children to voice their ideas about the stories and their experiences. A unique record and playback feature helps children develop reading confidence and expression.

Educational Benefits
• Develops visual memory, concentration, and phonics
recognition skills
• Builds vocabulary and word recognition
• Supports a range of developmental levels
• Improves auditory discrimination

Features
• 4 activities, each with 4 levels of difficulty
• Over 1,000 practice words
• Practice in identifying consonant blends, short and long vowel sounds, and digraphs
• Score chart tracks number of correct responses and attempts, and displays the percentage of correct answers for each level
 

Windows® System Requirements
• Win 95/98/Me/2000/XP
• Pentium 166 MHz
• 32 MB RAM
• 100 MB available disk space
• 800x600, 16-bit color
• 8x CD-ROM


Macintosh® System Requirements
• OS 8.6-9.x, OS X
• PowerPC 180 MHz
• 32 MB RAM
• 100 MB available disk space
• 800x600, 16-bit color
• 8x CD-ROM