Flash Action Phonics Made Easy

Brand: School Zone

Features:

• Fun, easy-to-use learning program teaches beginner phonics
• Explore letter and vowel sounds, rhyming families, letter blends, and more
• Tracks progress and rewards success with 4 unique play areas
• Hundreds of quick practice exercises; straightforward main menu
• For kids age 6 and older

Format: CD-ROM

Details: Review

Remember how great School Zone’s Alphabet Express was? Phonics Made Easy is all that and more. From a simple, straightforward main menu, kids can launch hundreds of quick phonics exercises from four learning areas. One area teaches consonants and beginning and ending sounds. Another area focuses on vowels, while a third deals with word families. The fourth area drills blends and digraphs. Among many other things, kids add letters to make words, pick rhyming pairs and draw lines from pictures to associated sounds. The emphasis is on drill and practice, but the activities are colorful and entertaining and don’t feel like work at all. As children successfully complete the exercises, they are rewarded with play in four fun creativity areas. We liked the game of making kaleidoscope patterns out of blends–you’d be surprised at how beautiful “bl” and “gr” can be when swirled in various colors across the screen. There’s also a letter-themed paint and print area, a rhyming rap game and a picture-making activity. Work can be printed, and the software tracks where children leave off. The bottom line–if you’re looking for an affordable, fun, early reading activity for either home or classroom use, this is money well spent. Copyright © 2001 Children’s Software Revue — From Children’s Software Revue® — “Subscribe Now!”

Product Description

Children will have fun learning and practicing beginning phonics skills in this easy-to-use program. Just click one of the colorful buttons on the left of the screen to explore letter sounds, vowel sounds, rhyming families, letter blends, and more. The program keeps track of the children’s progress and rewards success with four unique play areas. Each play area corresponds to the colored buttons and reinforces the skills taught.

UPC: 076645084071

Release Date: 01-12-2002

Package Dimensions: 18x218x136