Color Phonics

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Summary: Maybe not thrilling, but very useful
Review: I received Color Phonics 2 years ago at a homeschool convention. At first my 3yo & 5 yo sons got very little out of it...the three year old was confused by the voice saying the word where his mouse was right after the word he was supposed to look for. The five year old was bored, though he is easily bored. Now, I'm finally using it...each child (ages 3, 4.5, and almost 7 now) is required to play 15 minutes of Color Phonics before they may use their edutainment CDROMs. This has worked wonderfully...the content of Color Phonics is marvelous, and is helping my speech delayed 4.5yo to distinguish the different sounds. The almost 7yo has been struggling with reading (due we believe to binocular vision), and having the color coding is a great asset for him. (The 3yo doesn't get a lot out of it yet, but she will...she is also language delayed, so she's just not ready for it yet.) Yes, the program requires a bit of motivation not necessary with edutainment...but it wasn't designed as edutainment...it was designed to teach.

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Summary: Color phonics was a bore
Review: I tried this software on 3 of my children. They thought it was cute for about 5 minutes, but after that it was the same and very monotonous. Don't waste your money.

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Summary: Software you may need to suffer through...
Review: sound teaching, but very dull. My daughter was very bored after chapter two, and she does not bore easily!