Disney's Ready To Read With Pooh

Disney's Ready To Read With Pooh PC MAC CD learn spelling alphabet reading game Type: Children Platform: Windows/Mac Publisher: Disney Released: 1997 Media: CD Disney's Ready to Read with Pooh offers kids a head start on reading, through nine activities that deal with sentence comprehension, the alphabet, elements of phonics, rhymes, words, and letter recognition. The setting is a tree house with a mailbox where letters are received from characters in the Hundred Acre Wood. Each activity has three levels, and each level completed earns an award from Mole, for a total of 27 treasures (plus one extra for trying each activity at least once). Help and options are available on every screen, via Pooh's red honey pot.Play takes place in four main areas: the Treehouse (home), where you store and view objects earned and receive mail from characters in the game, the West Woods, the North Woods, and the East Woods. The last three each contain three specific activities concerned with an aspect of reading and comprehension.West Woods offers Tigger's Don't Climb Trees, Pooh's Honey Pots and Piglet's Cabinets. The first focuses on missing letters and word-matching, the second on alphabet letter organization, and the third on memory (similar in concept to Concentration) using both lower- and uppercase letters.Rabbit's Signs, Let's Pretend, and Eeyore's Tattered Books are the activities in the North Woods. Respectively, the games deal with connect-the-dots (to make letters) while fixing Rabbit's signs, sentence structure (difficulty level dictates parts of speech used), and a matching game (pictures to words and sentences, again scaled by skill levels).East Woods contains activities focusing on word sounds and structure (Tigger's Bouncing Boxes), rhyming (Owl's Poetry), and deductive reasoning (Detective Tigger). The reasoning game offers various levels of assistance, depending on the chosen skill level, and kids receive a detective certificate after playing each level.Letters received in the mailbox at the tree house at Hundred Acre Wood are read (once) by the character who sent the letter and can be printed. Once a reward is earned in all nine activities, Tigger awards a doorbell, along with sounds and notes the player can put into sequence. Disney's Ready to Read with Pooh is suitable for children ages three to six and is based on Disney's versions of the Winnie-the-Pooh characters created by A.A. Milne.For Windows (32-bit Systems) / Mac (Power Macintosh: OS 9 or Below) [*Please review compatibility/platform sections in 'What You Get']