• Learn sound/letter relationships, letter blends, spelling, digraphs, phonemic awareness, and more
• Develop skills in adding and subtracting with counters, recognizing and using coins, problem solving, sorting, creating equivalent equations, and more
• Get creative with drawing and painting, creating animations, creating calendars, and music
• Build skills by following an engaging story or practice specific skills
• Friendly characters offer help as your child needs it

Can you help recreate the set, scripts, props and costumes in time to save the show? Filled with activities to help your child learn reading, arithmetic, problem solving and more.
Kids (ages 5 to 7) discover core learning skills in this delightful age-appropriate learning environment featuring Reader Rabbit and friends. Team up with Irvin-the-Inventor and the Cloud Queen to discover why it's raining umbrellas, raincoats, and galoshes. While traveling to Raingear Forest and Cloud Nine, kids explore seven fun activities full of adventure and discovery. Along the way, Reader Rabbit and friends cover reading, math, science, problem solving, and more, creating a forecast that calls for fun-filled learning.

Reader Rabbit 1st Grade 2002 is part of the award-winning Reader Rabbit children's educational software series. Learning activities include Cloud Spelling Challenge, Raingear Forest Math, and Gumball Science. Kids also enjoy this title's fun music, stories, movies, and characters, while the program's progress reports let parents see just where their child is advancing and where they might need some help.

So that you're never without Reader Rabbit, Reader Rabbit 1st Grade 2002 comes with the bonus CD-ROM Reader Rabbit's Dreamship Tales. It's bursting with added activities, videos, tunes, and more than 100 printable games and activities--a great way to keep the fun going after you've turned the computer off.

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great fun and learning at the same time!
Comment: My children, ages 3 and 6, like this game but there are only a few games to play. My 3 year old seemed to enjoy it more than my older child. Unless there are other games that have to be unlocked, I dont think this was worth the buy. Much more enjoyable for younger computer savvy kids.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: "where's the reading"
Comment: My first grader was excited about trying the Reader Rabbit CD that I bought, but after about 15 minutes of playing silly games and walking around the virtual world, he complained "where's the reading?" This software is not really educational software at all in my opinion, but a video game with some educational elements thrown in. A waste of time and money.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great product
Comment: I was afraid this was a limited version software for the price- but it wasn't. It was better than I expected, and my first grader loves it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Kept my 6 yr old entertained
Comment: My six year old spent several hours playing this the first couple of weeks. I'd like to add that the game is fairly complex and he needed help. The thing I liked was he was learning while having fun!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Good but difficult to use
Comment: I bought this for my 6 yr. old grandson who just completed kindergarten. However, his favorite activity in kindergarten was computer lab so I decided to give him the opportunity to use a computer at home. I purchased Reader Rabbit 1st Grade. My opinion about the program is mixed.

It's worst problem is that it is very difficult to navigate. There is no documentation supplied with the program and there is no top menu provided. It is difficult to control. I am considered a computer whiz with almost 50 yrs. experience and one of my degrees is a Masters in Computer Science. Still I had numerous problems navigating. Fortunately, my grandson who seems to have an instinct for computers and who is very persistent found out how to maneuver. He is great on trial and error.

The program is not a teaching device. It doesn't teach anything. The student must already know how to do the work before using the program but it is a great refresher program. My grandson fell in love with the program. He worked five hours straight until he completed the program and then he wanted to do it all over again. The problem was that the program would not let him start all over again. Because the program has a memory for the work that the student has completed, when the student completes the program, all the student can do is to see the ending show. I spent almost an hour working around it. Uninstalling and reinstalling the program did not work. I finally had to create a new user account for my grandson so that he could play.

Although my grandson just completed kindergarten he is actually ready for the Second grade so he had no problems doing the work in the program. The program itself is not all encompassing of what pupils may learn in the First Grade. What a pupil will learn in the First Grade depends on the school. Reader Rabbit went about half way. The math is not as advanced as the local First Grade would have it and digraphs are not as extensively used in Reader Rabbit as some children will find in school

One other annoyance is that when the program installs it does not copy the files from the CD to the hard drive so that each time it is used, the CD must be inserted into the CD-ROM drive, making it harder for a child to start the program.

Also, some of the segments are so long they become boring in repetition. And there is way too much story telling which keeps the user from getting to the meat quickly.

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