Read, Write & Type

List Price: $29.95 Discount Price: $4.79

Features:

• Enables Children to Write Whatever They Can Say. [Age 6 - 8]
• Combines a strong phonics approach with writing and typing skills.
• Write animated stories while building skills in phonics, reading, and keyboarding.
• Includes 57 sound games with more than 200 words with accompanying pictures.
• A progressively challenging sequence

Customer Reviews:

Beware - Only works on very old O/S [Posted on 2007-11-20]
I bought this assuming it would work with either our 2-yr old Windows PC or our 2-yr old or 5-yr old Macs -- It was only compatible w/ Windows 95 or extremely old Mac O/S and would not work with any of our computers. Worthless and extremely disappointing to my 7-yr old. Beware!!!

Old Software [Posted on 2008-01-28]
This software is for OLD computers. It is a waste of money to buy it in 2008.

Excellent Typing Software [Posted on 2008-07-21]
I have a second grader with dyslexia who needs to learn typing. We started off using Typing with Timon and Pumba and found the program to be horrible. Like many typing programs, it assumed that you are a fast, strong reader. This program was great! Not only did it teach typing, it also worked on reading, writing, and phonemic awareness. All information is presented orally and gets progressively more challenging difficult. My kid is no fool to "educational" video games and is not crazy about most games that teach as you play. That being said, she loves this game and wants to play longer everyday.

After purchasing this game, I realized that it only ran on Windows 95 machines. We no longer have any computers that use 95... I visited the Read Write Type website (http://www.readwritetype.com) and found a fix to the program. It is a simple download that includes installation instructions.

Great product--download the patch to play on WindowsXP [Posted on 2008-08-31]
Thanks to the previous reviewer who recommended downloading the free patch from the Read, Write, & Type website, we had this up and running in ten minutes. This is a fabulous program and my 8 year old with dyslexia and dysgraphia loves it. She is gaining a lot of confidence in typing. In addition, typing while learning to read is much easier than writing while learning to read. I highly recommend this.

A great start! [Posted on 2008-11-15]
I was looking for this software again to buy for a friend's child. I had purchased this software somewhere around 2002 for my 5 year old. Getting a kid sized keyboard was also a big help because she was able to reach the keys and not get frustrated. (The Samsung Pleomax PKB-5300 Multimedia USB Keyboard For Kids is very much like the one I got my daughter back when.)

The program kept her interest back then as she helped to free letters of the alphabet from Vexor the virus and by the time she was 10 years old, she was consistently typing about 40 words a minute. She is now almost 12 years old and is up to 65 words a minute.

If you buy this software in 2008, be sure to get the patch that will make this program work with the newer operating systems. [...]

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