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Play and Learn: Reading & Counting

by Avanquest Software
Platform:   Windows 95 / 98 / Me
4.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
Price: £4.99 & eligible for Free UK delivery on orders over £5 with Super Saver Delivery. See details and conditions
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  • Platform:   Windows 95 / 98 / Me
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1
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Play and Learn: Reading & Counting + Play and Learn: Writing & Calculating + Bear & Penguin's Big Reading Adventure
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Price For All Three: £17.69

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Product Features

  • 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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Manufacturer's Description
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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4.5 out of 5 stars (13 customer reviews)
 
 
 
 
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123 of 124 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A brilliant and fun package!, 21 April 2001
By A Customer
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.

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105 of 106 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent value and doesn't talk down to users, 7 Aug 2001
By A Customer
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.
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39 of 39 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Delivers what it says on the box., 6 Oct 2002
By A Consumer (Somerset, UK.) - See all my reviews
... 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.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars Great learning for pre-school to 7 years
I bought this for my daughters 4 th birthday. On level 1 it is ideal for her she can work out what to do on each screen and can be left to learn on her own. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Mrs. L. B. Wright

2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing
I brought this software especially for my 4 year old daughter who is struggling with her phonics in school and was very disappointed with the letters game which is NOT sounded out... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mrs. L. J. Woodward

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for pre schoolers
I bought this for my 3 year old after she had used it at her nursery. I can only sing its praises. It has hundreds of activities and the menu is very easy for her to navigate, I... Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mrs. R. Dudley

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent for ages 3 - 6
This is a brilliant software title. It kept my daughter (3) and son (6) occupied for hours - with very minimal intervention from parents.
I can heartily reccomend this title
Published on 15 Mar 2006

4.0 out of 5 stars PC CD-Rom 'Writing & Calculating'
Yes, the graphics are good - but it is irritating that my daughter has to go back, page by page, to return to home page. Read more
Published on 19 Oct 2003

3.0 out of 5 stars average. could do better..
For the price this is not a bad buy, however, most of the content can be found in some form or other for free on the web. Read more
Published on 8 Oct 2003 by wmcn

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent value for five minutes peace!
My 3 year old loves this cd-rom, lots of different games (colours counting sounds shape sorting etc) extremely easy to navigate and use unaided (yes you can make a cup of tea... Read more
Published on 2 Aug 2003 by juliamacmillan

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent quality, but not really a reading aid
My 4 year old has been playing this game since she was 3 and loves it. It's a great game for quiet one-on-one time with a parent (or not-so-quiet time with a smaller sibling! Read more
Published on 3 Mar 2003 by TDrinkrrr

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for starters & improvers
Our 5 year old immediately got stuck in to this, some of it isn't very challenging for him but that sustains his interest if he can actually solve the puzzles without asking for... Read more
Published on 14 Jan 2003 by B. Philipson

5.0 out of 5 stars Marvellous graphics, hours of fun
This is really a great title, my children love it. It's obvious that the disc was produced by a European development house, rather than a US-based one. Read more
Published on 20 Jul 2000

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