Scholastic 81658 Clifford The Big Red Dog: Phonics

Develop reading skills while playing fun carnival games with Clifford!

Now your child can have even more fun with Clifford and friends as they build their reading skills with Clifford The Big Red Dog: Phonics. Kids can ride the ferris wheel with Jetta, help T-Bone across the tightrope, and inflate parade balloons with Emily Elizabeth and Clifford - all while building phonics, vocabulary, and spelling skills. Kids can even win up to 18 different prizes that they can use to decorate a float for the big parade! There are three different levels that automatically adjust to your child's abilities and progress reports so parents can keep track of their child's development.

• 12 entertaining activities and carnival games
• 10 interactive and printable stories
• 3 levels automatically adjust to your child's abilities
• Automatic help and hints allow for independent play
• Progress report tracks your child's development
• Features popular characters and voices from the hit TV show

• Word Recognition and Sentence Structure - Create silly stories with Charley using fun words and pictures. The listen as Charley reads the story with the words you chose.
• Word Families and Blending - Match the correct letters to the Ferris wheel cars so Jetta can ride with Mac and T-Bone.
• Initial Consonants - Mrs. Bleakman can't perform her high dive without water! Fill the pool by selecting the picture that starts with the correct letter or sound.
• Creativity - Decorate a float for the Big parade with prizes you won throughout the carnival. Color your float on-screen or print it to color on your own! Collect 18 different prizes that can be used to decorate your float.
• Rhyming and Vocabulary - T-Bone needs your help across the tightrope. Listen to the word, then choose the rhyming picture.
  
• Sight Words and Word Object Association - Clifford accidentally broke the balloon machine. Help inflate the parade balloons by matching the words and pictures.
• Spelling and Word Building - Discover how many different words you can make with each spin of the wheel.
  
• Letter and Sound Recognition - Help Cleo corral the cows by correctly identifying the letters on their blankets.

• Letter and Sound Recognition
• Word Families
• Sight Words
• Rhyming
• Blending
• Initial Consonants
• Spelling
• Vocabulary
• Word Recognition
• Word-Building
• Word-Object Association
• Sentence Structure
• Creativity

• Windows XP, 2000, ME, 98, 95
• Pentium II 266MHz processor or faster
• 64MB of RAM or more
• 80MB of available hard disk space
• 8X CD-ROM drive
• 16-bit color
• Windows compatible sound card
• Printer optional

• System 8.6 or later, OS X
• iMac/G3 3233MHz processor or faster
• 64MB of RAM or more
• 80MB of available hard disk space
• 24X CD-ROM drive
• 16-bit color
• Printer optional