Product Description

Join Reader Rabbit on a joyful journey to build reading confidence and success! Develop essential reading skills while exploring 26 Letter Lands filled with fun phonics activities and engaging storybooks. Practice language arts skills while playing with four fabulous word-making machines at the Word Factory. From letters and sounds, to words, and spelling, and on to reading comprehension.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #46 in Software
• Brand: The Learning Company
• Platform: Windows
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 5.50" h x 1.00" w x 5.50" l, .35 pounds

Features

• uild Reading Skills through Fun Activities & Interactive Storybooks.
• Practice specific skills or learn while following the adventure.
• Key Skills: Phonics & Decoding; Phonemic Awareness; Sentences; Vocabulary; Spelling; Comprehension
• Track success with progress reports. User-friendly program help.
• Mac OS 8.6 - 9.2/OS X 10.1.5, Windows 95/98/Me/2000/XP

Customer Reviews

A good start software & fun for 3-5yr boy or girl
I purchased this software because my kid's daycare uses Reader Rabbit. I picked this version since it was preschool to K & I've got a 3yr old & a 5yr old & I wanted something (for my first purchase of software) that they could both use. It's a two disk set with one for the preschool & the other is K. The preschool has less "story" to it; it has more games, songs, & a zillion printable activities (we haven't done them since the kids computer isn't hooked up to a printer-- another thing they might break). Some games are matching letters or shapes, while harder games have the child pick the right word for the sentence (if you move your mouse over words, etc, the sentence/word is read for the child). Both my kids like teh preschool disk. THe K disk is more story & more detail -- help the mouse find letters & fill in a map. I think my 5yr old lacks the desire right now to sit thru all that, but it seems fun & challenging without being hard. My 3yr old tries to do it, but he can't follow the steps yet. I would have given this four stars (maybe even five, but it's my first software purchase & I've got nothing to compare it to) but I had to bump one off because the software doesn't download; you have to change between disks & that is a huge drag for me when one kid is done & the other wants to do the other program. That's just a hassle that isn't necessary. Outside of this, I think the program is great. The kids spend maybe 20 minutes on a Saturday or Sunday on the computer. I would recommend this product. It was a good first purchase for us.

It helped my kid!
This product was a tremendous help in teaching my child to read. Trying to use a book to teach my child to read lasted only a few minutes before he lost interest, whereas he wanted to get on the computer and "play" with this CD. Definitely made it a lot easier, as a parent, to help teach my kid to read.

Reader Rabbit teaches
When I first purchased this and took a look at it before I let my four year old granddaughter view it--to be honest I thought it looked uninspiring and rather boring for her. But what do I know! She spent three hours on it the first day learning how to navigate through the various activities and books. I was amazed since she is a whirlwind of energy. Since then she views it daily and learns the letters and words and is beginning to pick them out of the hardcover books she has.
In the end what matters is that she finds this edition of Reader Rabbit engaging and that she is learning from the activities and the interactive stories.