Achieve! - Phonics - Reading & Writing (Grades 1-3) MSRP is $29.99!

ACHIEVE! Phonics, Reading & Writing is a great tool to help children achieve their personal best! This collection of award-winning software titles is designed to improve grades and skills in school - regardless of a child's current level.  Get ready for a reading and writing breakthrough! This outstanding collection nurtures essential early reading skills through warm, whimsical experiences designed just for younger learners. Explore key topics in the early grade school reading and writing curriculum through a series of exciting adventures, engaging stories, and irresistible games. Tackle topics like letter names and sounds, short and long vowels, building simple words, predicting story events and more.

Access four fabulous programs for virtually unlimited learning opportunities.  Explore first- through third-grade reading and writing curriculum.

• Head to the tropics in Let‚Ä¢s Go Read! I: An Island Adventure, where 175 carefully sequenced lessons turn up the heat on phonics progress!
• Dive deep in search of the missing bookmobile in Let‚Ä¢s Go Read! 2: An Ocean Adventure. Silly characters like the Word Whale deliver boatloads of educational fun!
• Open the door to Bailey‚Ä¢s Book House, and discover seven delightful activities brimming with friendly characters, memorable rhymes and enchanting stories.
• Learn about literature in Stories and More: Time & Place, where three lively stories teach valuable lessons about culture and communities, creative responses to literature, predicting story events and more.

Skills Learned:

• Phonics
• Spelling
• Letters and Blends
• Vocabulary
• Reading Comprehension
• Word and Sentence Structure
• Story Concepts
• Memory Skills

Let's Go Read! 1: An Island Adventure

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.

Skills Learned:

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

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Let's Go Read! 2: An Ocean Adventure

Robby the Raccoon and Emily the Squirrel are back to take kids under the sea in search of a lost bookmobile. Kids work characters like the Word Whale and Marvin the Marlin as they explore 11 exciting undersea locations to decode hundreds of words and expand their reading comprehension. More than 125 lessons help kids apply their reading knowledge and develop new skills.

Skills Learned:

• Story Lines
• Blending Multiple Letter Sounds
• Short & Long Vowels
• Identifying New Words
• Building 3- to 5-Letter Words
• Vocabulary
• Reading Comprehension

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Bailey's Book House

In seven activities, Bailey the Cat and his neighborhood friends inspire young readers to learn letters, words, rhyming, adjectives, and storytelling. Kids also build word families and make their own greeting cards and storybooks. Special features include graphical and spoken instructions and a special highlighting technique that encourages kids to follow words from left to right as they hear them read aloud.

Skills Learned:

• Rhyming Words
• Uppercase and Lowercase Letters
• Sounding Out Words
• Common Adjectives and Prepositions
• Building Sentences
• Reading Vocabulary

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Stories & More Time and Place

Stories & More:  Time and Place combines three stories - The House on Maple Street, Roxaboxen, and Galimoto - with engaging activities that strengthen kids' reading comprehension. In these books, the setting plays a primary role, and kids learn the importance of time, culture, and place.  Pre-reading, reading, post-reading activities support the growth of comprehension skills.

Skills Learned:

• Vocabulary
• Predicting Story Events
• Reading Comprehension
• Character and Setting
• Culture and Communities
• Creative Response to Literature
• Comparing Time Periods

• Windows 95B, 98, Me, 2000, XP
• 166 MHz Pentium or faster
• 45 MB available hard disk space
• 32MB of memory (RAM)
• 8X CD-ROM drive
• Windows-compatible sound card
• Mouse

• Macintosh OS 8.6 to 9.2.2
• Power PC 120 MHz or faster
• 45MB available hard disk space
• 32MB of memory (RAM)
• 8X CD-ROM drive
• Mouse