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- Minimal adult supervision required
- Child friendly and attractive interface
- Key literacy, and numeracy topics covered
- Full illustration and minimal text
- Loads of games to keep children entertained
- Virtual rewards build confidence and skills
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Part of the Play & Learn mini-series, this disk is designed to encourage and entertain children aged 3 to 5. Packed with fun activities, animated games, colours, shapes and sounds that help develop key literacy and numeracy skills. The program's special child friendly interface enables children to use it without adult supervision.
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DK - PLAY AND LEARN READING AND COUNTING
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122 of 123 people found the following review helpful
Format:CD-ROM
This really appealed to both my boy/girl twins,just turned 4. It has a very low irritation factor - no silly characters popping up and shouting "well done". Instead, completion of each task is rewarded by a humorous graphic. It is easy for a child to find its way from the menu to the desired game so they can play relatively unsupervised. There is a lot of clicking,holding and dragging (eg to put puzzle pieces in place)so might be hard for the twos and young threes. I would also add that our seven year old loves a couple of the games and even the 10 year old has been caught playing with it.
161 of 163 people found the following review helpful
Format:CD-ROM
As a primary teacher and a parent, I felt I had to write a review for this package.
As with all Dorling Kindersley products it is exceptionally well presented. The sound effects and animations on the program help to make the learning process fun and help maintain the user's interest.
Pupils find the software easy to access and are able to navigate around the programme successfully with little teacher/parental guidance. Only limited IT skills are required.
The software makes use of a number of important literacy and numeracy skills and is aimed at children aged 5 - 7(Key Stage 1) although parts of the software can easily be used in the top year of Early Years (Reception). The material is grouped into eight categories, as laid out in the opening screen: · Counting · Calculating · Reading · Spelling · Thinking · Memorising · Matching · Creating
The choice of categories is well thought out and highly appropriate to the children in the age group for which the software has been written.
Each category branches out into 3 different activities. The content and difficulty of the questions depends upon the level which is selected.
At any stage of the programme, the user may pass onto the next window or return to the previous window by using the bicycles, cars or aeroplanes in the bottom right and left hand corners of the screen.
The software stimulates counting and simple calculations, reading and writing, memory recognition, logical and lateral thinking and creativity. From experience, some of the reading and spelling activities are quite advanced - but I use this package very successfully with children in Reception and Key Stage 1. Younger children are able to access the number, logic and creativity topics on the CD at an earlier stage in their development than the literacy categories.
The main disadvantages of the software are the inability for the teacher/parent to view the success rate of a child when using the program because correct answers are not recorded. Teachers/parents are also unable to view the categories which a child has visited in a session.
44 of 44 people found the following review helpful
Format:CD-ROM|Amazon Verified Purchase
... The CD is easy to run and doesn't need installing on our PC (OS Windows 98 SE). The graphics are of real objects and not cartoons which is really refreshing after the Reader Rabbit and Disney Interactive CD's we have. The sound quality too is excellent and the vocabulary is precise and clear. More to the point, my 5 year old daughter absolutely loves all the activities she has encountered so far and she remains concentrated for over an hour! This is a very impressive piece of software that delivers what it says on the box.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
disc will not play
DK Play and Learn Reading and Counting. I purchased this cd rom in the hope of helping my little boy gain some basic skills
while learning how to use the computer at the same... Read more
while learning how to use the computer at the same... Read more
Published 18 days ago by purplemyrtle
Play and Learn
I bought this for my 5 year old daughter. She was able to understand what to do very quickly and could scroll through the various activities without requiring any assistance from... Read more
Published 13 months ago by CMK1967
Incompatible with 64 bit version of windows
I recently bought other versions of DK games and had no problems whatsoever loading them onto a new laptop complete with Windows Vista, however both the 'Play and Learn game for... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Markdgf
Well beyond its sell-by date
Initially installed this and got it working. To be honest it really shows its age and is not that easy for children to use as you need to be pretty specific with where you are... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Jonathan
Play and Learn
A great teaching tool. Easy to use. My 6 year old can navigate around on his own and enjoys the different subjects. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Baildon Bullman
didn't work on my computer
This product arrived in time(2 star for that), but unfortunately didn't work on my computer, i would recommend this cd if only you have atleast 3mb of virtual memory on your... Read more
Published 17 months ago by sjose
Not 64 bit compatible
Unfortunately I only read the good reviews here before my order and opened the CD to discover that it wouldn't run on our computer (which is less than a year old and runs Windows... Read more
Published 22 months ago by JenB
Doesn't run on Vista 64
My wife ordered it on recommendation, but despite the packaging saying it runs on Vista, it turns out not to run on Vista 64, and the suppliers say that no fix is available or... Read more
Published 23 months ago by P. Wood
Great product for pre-schoolers
My 4-year old loves this as it has loads of small games to play which are educational yet fun. It is great for developing mouse skills and hand-to-eye co-ordination and for the... Read more
Published 23 months ago by trixi
Not 64 bit compatible
Although listed as 'Vista Compatible' This software does not run on a 64 bit configuration. Suppliers report no fix available nor planned.
Published on 26 Oct 2009 by Philip Barnett
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