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| Reader Rabbit Learn to Read With Phonics | 
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| From: The Learning Company
Category: Software
List Price: $19.99
Buy New: $5.25
You Save: $14.74 (74%)
New (8) Used (1) from $4.50
Avg. Customer Rating:  36 reviews
Sales Rank: 168
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 8 x 1.5
Model: 380848
UPC: 772040809942
EAN: 0772040808488
ASIN: B00005LJEO
Release Date: June 25, 2001
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
 No technical support and no upgrades October 5, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
 Great kids program! May 19, 2006
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
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!
A 4yr old learns to read with phonics March 10, 2006
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Thank you for such a useful, motivating little guide into learning how to read. My grand daughter is having fun too.
Good product, but no support and some technical issues February 16, 2006
9 out of 9 found this review helpful
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.
Great investment for your child January 31, 2006
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I love this software. My daughter loved this CD-ROM between the age of 4-6 before she went to school and now my son really likes it and it's great for him because he has problems pronouncing words. He enjoyed playing with it so much, that now he is able to match words with pictures and sound out several words.
The Reader Rabbit Toddler software has not yet been outgrown. To get the most out of it, your child should have the ability to hold and click a mouse, and should already have basic recognition of capital and lower-case letters. The lowest level is perfect for my child but would have been too difficult at ages 3 - 3 1/2. The software teaches both letter and word recognition as well as phonics. The games are cute and when your child gets tired of learning to read there are fun songs and graphics to listen to with "reading propaganda" lyrics about how fun and important it is to learn to read.
This is an excellent early reading CD-ROM. Buy it here, since most stores only stock games and the more lackluster "educational" programs.
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