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From:The Learning Company
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User Rating: Amazon Sales Rank:#98 |
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1 of 2 customers found the following review helpful:
Good software for kids, 2006-11-09
I bougth this software for my kids and they have enjoy it a lot and, most important, learn a lot. It's a great complement for students kids.
9 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
 No technical support and no upgrades, 2006-10-05
This game was bought for my son 1-2 years ago when he was a toddler. Now that he's four we started using it. There is an error in the piano game that basically teaches your child how to spell words incorrectly putting in lots of incorrect letters at random. The piano game features prominently in many of the exercises, so you basically have to do a work around throughout the entire process.
What really gets me though is 1) I recently bought what I thought was an upgraded version of the game only to find the problem had not been fixed by the manufacturer 1) there are no patches or upgrades available to fix the problem, 2) the manufacturer states on their website that they will not give a refund for this game. Buyer beware.
5 of 5 customers found the following review helpful:
 Great kids program!, 2006-05-19
My 5-year old had some initial problems learning this, as some of the stuff is rather unintuitive. You have to pick up letters, identify words, do some drag-and-dropping (which is not always easy for small hands handling a computer mouse) but once the steep learning curve is over, it's a wealth for any kid learning to read and write! Highly recommended!
3 of 3 customers found the following review helpful:
A 4yr old learns to read with phonics, 2006-03-10
Thank you for such a useful, motivating little guide into learning how to read. My grand daughter is having fun too.
9 of 9 customers found the following review helpful:
Good product, but no support and some technical issues, 2006-02-16
My 4-year-old son likes this software quite a bit and has learned a solid amount from it. Many of the activities are well conceived, fun, and motivating. However, quite a few of them are weak in that random clicking works just as well as making thoughtful responses. I've had to remind my son to think about his answers before clicking, and this has worked to help reinforce the learning. All in all, with guidance I think this software does a tremendous amount of good. It helps especially with word recognition and phonics.
The game runs on Windows XP, but there is a bug with the piano word-completion game. Your child is shown some simple pictures that represent three-letter words. Below the word are three boxes representing the letters of the word. What is supposed to happen is that you're given the second and third letters; you then complete the word by dragging the missing first letter from a row of letters given lower on the screen to the empty box respresenting the first letter of the word. However, the second and third letters of the words are either blank or simply incorrect. "Hat" for example is supposed to have a blank, then an "a" and a "t". Intead it might have two blanks followed by an "l". This can be confusing, especially when your child is trying to sound out words. Still, with guidance your child will get through this, and it's only one of several activities on the disk.
Although the CD says that the game will work on Mac OSX, when I tried to run the program under OSX 10.4 (Tiger), the launcher tried to boot OS9 in order to run the main program. Saying that the program runs under OSX is misleading and incorrect. Mac users beware.
Support for the game is non-existent, as far as I can tell. I downloaded a patch to try and fix the buggy piano game, but that simply stopped the program from loading altogether and necessitated a reinstall from scratch. Somewhat of a pain since my son was halfway through his "road to reading" adventure, and had to start again.
Still, problems withstanding, this has been one of our best software purchases for our son. We've easily spent a productive 10 hours with it, and I'd say there are at least another 20+ good hours of learning left for my son to do. Just try to get it from some place that will let you return it if it doesn't work to your satisfaction.
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