Join Curious George in 2 Fun-Filled Learning Titles in 1 Collection!

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Young learners join Curious George as he embarks on a new adventure as a cub reporter for the town newspaper.  Kids become part of the story while practicing their reading, writing, and spelling skills in Curious George Reads, Writes, & Spells for Grades 1 & 2.  Curious George joins the circus in this fun phonics adventure in Curious George Learns Phonics for Kindergarten-1st Grade.  George is up to his usual antics, sending circus animals flying through the air in dashing acrobatics, laughing at the clowns' jokes, playing music, and chasing down letters, and their sounds.  Kids will have fun with Curious George in both educational titles.


Product Title Included

• Curious George Reads, Writes, & Spells for Grades 1 & 2
• Curious George Learns Phonics for Kindergarten-1st Grade

Product Overview

Curious George Reads, Writes, & Spells for Grades 1 & 2

The world's most famous monkey has a nose for news! In this fun-packed learning adventure for kids in grades 1 & 2, young learners join Curious George as he embarks on a new adventure as a cub reporter for the town newspaper.  By helping Curious George complete his assignments, kids become part of the story while practicing their reading, writing, and spelling skills. Twelve different episodes focus kids on specific skills.

Each activity teaches the critical-thinking skills that build a foundation for reading and writing.  The Curious George Young Readers' Series gently challenges children to build critical reasoning and reading skills in a magical environment.  Welcome Curious George into your child's life and share the timeless appeal of a children's classic cherished by generations.

Features:

• Kids become part of an original Curious George story.
• Provides reading and storytelling practice.
• Kids help write 2 news articles and 30 stories (that they can print too!).
• Helps develop solid spelling skills.
• Includes over 40 pages of practice printouts.
• Special parental controls allow adjustment of play levels.

Skills Learned:

• Reading
• Vocabulary and High-Frequency Words
• Phonetic Spelling Strategies
• Proofreading and Editing
• Writing and Sentence Completion

Curious George Learns Phonics for Kindergarten-1st Grade

George is up to his usual antics, sending circus animals flying through the air in dashing acrobatics, laughing at the clowns' jokes, playing music, and chasing down letters and their sounds. Six games and activities teach children to recognize letters, sounds, and to sound out words as their build basic reading skills.

As children learn about letter names, the sounds in language (phonemic awareness), and letter sound associations (phonics), they learn the basic skills of reading and writing. Children explore at their own pace and discover the joy of learning while they play games and activities that teach phonemic awareness and phonics. There are gentle challenges and fun, magical rewards.

Bring a school learning environment into your home. We use the latest research and reinforce skills developed in the widely-used Invitations to Literacy Program to help you teach your child to read.

Features:

• Astonishing Animal Acrobats -- Animals fly through the air doing acrobatic stunts in this rhyming, alliteration, and blending game!
• Phonics Fun House -- Clown around and see if you can make words out of letter sounds!
• Peanut Pickup -- Help George and Eddie the Elephant find their way around a maze of initial consonant sounds!
• Comedy Clowns -- Find loads of laughs while testing your wits and your knowledge of initial and final consonant sounds!
• Sammy the Musical Seal -- Help Sammy make music while building knowledge of vowels and their sounds!
• Story Theater -- Practice reading and sounding out words with Thea and her entire troupe!
• Print 10 original storybooks -- featuring the Story Theater productions!

Skills Learned:

• Segmenting Words Into Sounds
• Identifying Alliteratives
• Substituting Sounds to Make New Words
• Identifying Consonant Sounds
• Identifying Vowel Sounds
• Identifying Rhymes

Minimum Requirements

• Windows 95, 98, XP, Vista 
• Pentium 90MHz or higher processor
• 16MB of RAM
• 2X CD-ROM Drive
• Windows compatible Sound Card
• 256 color or higher display graphics capabilities
• Mouse