Arthur's Reading Race

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Summary: Teaches sight words!
Review: A good way to learn sight words is the reading race game on this CD. My daughter read words at age 3! The story is cute but the activities are a little limited. But the game is worth getting just for the sight word teaching.

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Summary: Great game, my daughter is already sassy anyway
Review: Great story with lots of interactive stuff to click on to keep youngsters interested.

The reading race game is excellent, however the authors did not include nearly enough words in the game to keep it interesting long term. A real shame, as the game itself is motivating and educational and would have real value in teaching spelling and word recognition skills if only the dictionary was larger.

The previews of other games are a great addition - good advertising for the publishers and very entertaining in their own right.

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Summary: Our kid's ask for it
Review: I read a reviewer claim that this CD-ROM game has taught her daughter to be a "sass mouth". D.W. certainly has a vocab beyond her tender years, but she behaves no differently than she does on the popular kids show.

Having said that, this CD is fun. You can either read along with the story (words are highlighted as they are read), or play games with Arthur and D.W. "I Spy" is a favorite of my kids. Each pag of the story has pictures and items that can be clicked on and they come to life! A great tool for helping kids to learn how to use the computer mouse. Also comes with sample games for older kids.

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Summary: Autistic Kid Loves It
Review: My 7-year old autistic daughter loves this game and will play with it for hours.

She can already read, better than the level this game is targetted for, but what she loves is all the fun animations from all the clickable hotspots.

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Summary: Let's learn how to be rude
Review: My daughter age 6-1/2 loves Arthur. She very much enjoys this CD. I am not sure how much educational value it has, but I do know that from this CD she is learning how to be a sass mouth and rude to other family members. I think I will manage to loose the CD today while she is at school.

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Summary: Review of Reading Race
Review: My son loves this CD and honestly so do I. While it is not going to teach your child to read, it will help them with word recognition some. On each page of the story there are several items to select for interesting surprises. You can either have the program automatically continue after each page, or stop and let you explore the page and its contents.

I think there is not any overt rudness in the program that is above and beyond the book series itself and the interaction between Arthur and DW.

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Summary: Review of Reading Race
Review: My son loves this CD and honestly so do I. While it is not going to teach your child to read, it will help them with word recognition some. On each page of the story there are several items to select for interesting surprises. You can either have the program automatically continue after each page, or stop and let you explore the page and its contents.

I think there is not any overt rudness in the program that is above and beyond the book series itself and the interaction between Arthur and DW.

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Summary: fun and some learning
Review: This CD is just plain fun. Anyone buying this program because they want to teach their child to read may be buying the wrong product. But it does help early learners to "see" words, and connect word/object relationships ... at least somewhat. And that in itself makes it worthy of some educational value. But the best value in this is the fun. The prizes are fun too .... weird flavored ice cream. My own feelings are that if you want to teach your child to read, you shouldn't depend on software, for the most part software is just a way to practice what they learn via actual instruction. This is a great, fun, and easy to play CD.

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Summary: Arthur's Reading Race
Review: This is a good game that will help your children to learn to read. This game will work with Windows XP Home Edition if you run it in compatibility mode.

Rating:
Summary: Arthur's Reading Race
Review: This is a good game that will help your children to learn to read. This game will work with Windows XP Home Edition if you run it in compatibility mode.