• Practice new skills with 18 charming interactive storybooks.
• Sing along with 10 irresistible songs that play on your computer or on any CD player.
• Track your child's success with progress reports.
• Practice pronunciation and improve phonics skills with record and playback features.
• Gain exposure to real-world reading materials like poems, journals, and newspapers.

Product description ------------------- Join Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion on their fun-filled adventure in search of the Land Where the Lions Roam Free! Along the way, you will meet lions of all kinds—dandelions, a sea lion, and even a lionfish! While immersed in this enchanting story, build essential reading and comprehension skills by playing fun phonics activities and reading delightful interactive storybooks. Special Features: * Practice specific skills, or learn while following the adventure * Real-world reading materials such as poems, books, journals, and newspaper articles * Practice reading aloud with record and playback * Track success with progress reports * User-friendly program help Key Skills: * Phonics * Phonemic Awareness * Sentences * Vocabulary * Spelling * Comprehension * Reading Aloud * Creative Writing Vowel Combinations: Help Reader and Sam catch falling word parts in their baskets to create complete words. Compound Words: Break compound words into smaller words as you help Sam create footholds to scale a wall. Consonant Blends: Sort words with common ending consonant blends to help Dandy build a tree house. Word Families: Learn consonant blends and vowel combinations as you descend to the sea floor in search of literary treasures. Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 compatible Review ------ Children practice their reading and phonics skills as they partake in this adventure to find the Land Where The Lions Roam Free. Joined by Reader Rabbit and Sam the Lion, kids find a series of activities that teach and reinforce short and long vowels, consonant blends, vowel combinations, compound words and word families. These activities, once you figure out how to play them, provide solid skill practice. There are many directed activities (e.g. find the word with the ch sound like in lunch) as well as some open-ended areas like poetry writing. Graphics are very nice, and the characters and theme are appealing. The direct instruction provided by narration and animation is also very good. The program is flawed, however, in terms of design. It is not always clear how to get from one place or activity to the next, and some of the activities themselves are unintuitive to play-- children (and reviewers!) don't know what to do. Plan on lending your child a helping hand when they get stuck. Additional program features include printable progress reports and study words, plus a skill practice mode. Note: This program comes bundled with a second CD, Reader Rabbit 2nd Grade Mis-cheese-ious Dreamship Adventures!, which is a previously released, fairly good reading adventure program. Teaches: Age Range: Copyright © 2001 Children's Software Revue -- From Children's Software Revue® -- "Subscribe Now!" ( https://secure.tradenet.net/childrenssoftware/csroffer.html )