Builds Reading and Thinking Skills through Active Exploration

Product Information

In this tropical adventure, kids fly off to a colorful island where Robby the Raccoon and Emily the Squirrel guide them through 20 interactive locations. They learn reading basics with more than 175 carefully sequences reading lessons, and they expand their vocabulary through pictures, sentences, and books. Special features include the use of both phonics and whole language methodologies.  Get ready to fly with Reading Rover!

Skills Learned

• Letter Sounds
• Recognizing Letter Cases
• Building Simple Words
• Reading Vocabulary
• Creating Sentences
• Parts of Speech
• Reading Comprehension

Product Features

Letter Recognition
Help Robby sort coconuts or sheets into baskets, feed pods, or display sunflowers in the correct vases.

Letter Sounds in Words
Click on shirts, posters, frogs, or pumpkins that show words with the target letter sound at the beginning, middle, or end.

Word Building
The Reading Rover runs on word power! Practice building rhyming words. Choose the right letter to build the word that matches the picture!

Sentence Building
Robby and Emily often decide to make their own signs. You can help by selecting pictures to build silly sentences.

Books
There are books in the clouds above Letter Island! The Rover automatically picks up books that match the skills you’ve developed. Read the books to yourself, or have parts read aloud.

System Requirements

• Windows 98, Me, XP
• 486/66 MHz Pentium, 90 MHz Pentium * or faster
• 8 MB RAM (16 MB recommended) *
• 6 MB free hard disk space (21 MB for optional speech recognition)
• Windows-compatible sound card (16-bit sound card with microphone input required for speech recognition)
• Speakers
• 640x480 monitor, 256 colors
• 2X CD-ROM drive
• High quality microphone (optional - not included) *

Macintosh Requirements

• Mac OS 7.5.6 to 9.2 (does not include OS X Classic)
• 68040 (25 MHz or faster recommended), or PowerPC *
• 6 MB RAM (7 MB for PowerPC; 12 MB required for speech recognition)
• 6 MB free hard disk space (11 MB for speech recognition)
• 640x480 monitor, 256 colors
• 2X CD-ROM drive
• High quality microphone (optional - not included) *