Engaging programs, such as this are part of what is known as the Blaster Learning Series. This is particularly designed to drill those key skills needed by kindergartners as they begin to grasp the understanding of how to read. Reading Blaster includes simple activities in an easy to use format.
In this software ‘Best friends’ Max Blaster and his alien buddy G.C. have fun as they dive down into an underwater world. Here they discover where the undisclosed treasure is hiding. Finding the treasure is simple the user must earn five stars by successfully completing reading activities. Then the race for treasure is on. To successfully complete the hunt, children have to navigate a simple maze with the aid of their underwater buddies.
In addition there are five reading activities, accompanied by a treasure room which is set up for each registered user. This room not only stores accumulated treasure, it also includes word flash cards, a kid-friendly word processor, B-mail which receives lighthearted messages from Blaster friends, stories that can be read aloud and printed, and a personalized star chart, mapping the user’s progress in the program.
Reading Blaster for Kindergarten includes five different learning activities with five distinct ability levels. Changing levels greatly influences the material covered in the activities, so that it looks like a new game each time the child moves up a level. For example, there is ‘Clamshell Scramble’ asks kids to correctly order scrambled puzzle elements. At the simplest level this involves putting the letters in the right order to spell a given word, while at th highest level, Level 5, children are required to sequence words to form complete sentences.
Other skills addressed by this particular program include letter recognition, capital and lowercase letters, alphabetical order, phonics, matching sounds to pictures and words, grouping words into categories, rhyming, simple spelling and simple sentence construction. Although many of these activities do require a good hand-eye coordination and ‘fast-twitch muscle’ skills, children are given unlimited time to complete these activities so that this aspect only rarely becomes frustrating for unskilled users.
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