"Clifford Phonics"

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Play carnival games with Clifford the dog! Players collect prizes, which they can use to decorate a parade float. Featuring six main phonics-based activities with a carnival activity theme (riding the Ferris wheel, blowing up balloons, tightrope walking) and six shorter midway games (pick up ducks, spinning a wheel), Clifford Phonics creates a truly engaging and fun atmosphere for learning early reading skills.

Educational Value:

Different carnival games promote letter and sound recognition, associating objects with words, word families, and rhyming. Players must recognize words and letters by sight to win the games. Some of the midway games need to allow the player more time to sound out the words before displaying the answer. The games begin at an easy level, and then progress to greater difficulty as the child plays.

Although the program's description claims that it boosts players’ creativity with an activity where kids’ can decorate a parade float using prizes they have collected playing the phonics games, this is a weak connection. Players can “stamp” pictures onto a blank object to decorate it. The creativity and original thinking involved in this activity is akin to filling in a coloring book. The true value in the float decorating activity is that it gives players a fun break from the phonics drill games, and keeps kids playing the reading games for a longer time. Collecting prizes that they can see and use also gives kids a tangible sense of accomplishment.

Clifford Phonics is a solid phonics drill game based on a theme bursting with kid appeal.

All children learn differently, and some early readers benefit from the phonics approach more than others. This is best for the average kindergartner or beginning first grader who is learning to read with phonics. It is intended for home use. You can expect that this game will keep your budding reader busy for that crucial 30 minutes before dinner.

View Cart	Title (Click on title for Review)	Publisher	Ages	Media	Price
	Clifford Phonics		4-6	WIN 98/2000/XP/ME & PwrPC OS 8.6 - OS10	$19.99 Online Price $14.99

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