Designed for beginning readers (pre-K to 2nd grade) Animated Beginning Phonics covers upper and lower case letters, beginning and ending sounds, middle short vowel sounds and beginning reading words. Sound is used extensively to help the child identify words and letters. Help is available as needed by the student. Pictures of over 200 3D objects are used in the exercises. All menu items and directions are read aloud to the student to help pre-readers navigate and operate the program. When the student has completed a certain number of problems they can visit the game room with puzzles and matching games (animated of course). The game room has a parent/teacher control so the number of problems that have to be completed before the student can play can be controlled (5 - 50, or you can close the game room).
Our Review: A very good learning program for children that teaches the basics of word/letter recognition. Children are given several images, and from them must choose which one begins with the letter they are prompted with. When the lesson is successfully finished, there is the option to play a short game. Animated Beginning Phonics has great animations and graphics, as well as chirpy sounds. A great reward system is proven to enhance childrens' desire to learn on such programs, so this comes highly recommended!
This software's licence is Shareware - Trial Version, which means that the Software is provided at no charge to the user for an evaluation period. If you would like to continue using the Software after the evaluation period, you must purchase a license (register). A single user license allows the licensee to use the Software on any one computer at any one time. Site and worldwide license arrangements may be made by contacting the author / developer.
If you wish to register and receive the full version of this Shareware - Trial Version program, it will cost you US$ 22.00