Sesame Street Elmo's Reading Basics

List Price: $19.95 Discount Price: $6.99

Features:

• Develop basic reading skills through fun activities that teach reading essentials (Ages 3 - 6)
• Learn about letters, build words, and complete sentences
• Six activity zones: History Mystery; Zoetry Poetry; Elmo's Wild Kingdom
• Cooking with Cookie; Super Grover's Comic Book; Beam Me Up Up Up
• Easy, medium, and hard games keep things interesting. [Windows 95/98/XP, Mac]

Customer Reviews:

Addictive learning fun even for non readers [Posted on 2005-06-24]
My 2 five year old daughters love this program and will sit and play/learn for hours where they would lose intest after 10 minutes with ordinary reading books.

The sesame street steet characters they love lead them through learning while they think it's just a series of 6 games. It covers lots of areas including spelling (cookie monster's food recipes), rhyming (zoetry poetry), word formation onto endings (history mystery), and even some short books where kids choose the correct usually illustrated word to complete short sentences (Elmo's wild kingdom).

The only very minor criticism is that there is not a lot of content in the books section (Elmo's wild kingdom). So for more story books another program such as Reader rabbit would be a good addition. But the (limited) content that is in Elmo's wild kingdom is very entertaining and educational and there are 5 other games so you can't really complain as you are getting 6 educational reading games in one package.

For learning the basics of spelling, rhyme, phonics, word formation this program is absolutely superb, very entertaining and terrific value. But don't wait until your child is 6 which the recommended age on the program. Four year olds and up will love this program which has 3 levels (easy, medium and hard)and when you sit with them to start them off you will love it too.

This is super [Posted on 2007-04-21]
We are running a version of this program on Windows 98 and it runs flawlessly. The graphics are great and the games fun. Frequently the rewards are graphics which can sometimes be too long relative to the task(especially the Super Grover one), but these are probably why my kids love it. The leveling is automatic while you are playing, but the program doesn't remember individual children so it must be reset each time...not a problem, my children learned quickly to select the right level and change it as they got older. In classic Sesame Street style, the muppets are entertaining to adults as well as kids. One of the best we own. Since this was so good, we went ahead and bought "Let's Make A Word" which is also Sesame Street and were very disappointed. "Reading Basics" is by far the superior program.

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