Unlike Reading Blaster, whose main focus is reading comprehension, Word Detective concentrates on developing word skills.
Kids engage in five activities, solve the puzzles, and free the special agents.
Clearly, this program emphasizes education rather than fancy graphics, animations, or action. Although it transports kids to such exotic locales as Notalotenkammen's tomb in Egypt and Otto Readmore's Library in New York, the focus is on the educational activities within each setting. For help, an online 3,000-word dictionary provides spellings and definitions. Kids can then work on them outside the program or incorporate them into the program's custom spelling list.