Many related activities help in this process, like playing rhyming games. At this age level, there are several options. An Island Adventure . This title presents a systematic and sequential approach to learning to read. Kids join Robby Raccoon and Emily Squirrel as they fly to Letter Island to learn how to read.
Players meet the inhabitants of Letter Island, the letters of the alphabet.
Each animated letter introduces itself by teaching its name, the sound it makes, its shape, and how it can be used with other letter friends to make words. Your computer system must have microphone attached to be able to benefit from this special technology. Another excellent title is JumpStart Phonics . An Island Adventure , this title also employs speech recognition technology, and its activities are a little more fun to play. Children practice associating letters with their sounds, blending letter sounds, early spelling, rhyming, vowel sounds, and using story context clues to complete sentences.