Bailey's Bookhouse
Available in CD rom only. $29.95 and comes with similar "Millie's Math House",
Millie Beanie Doll, and tin lunch box that holds it all. Available at Best Buy,
Office Max, (any retail computer store). Highly reccommended for beginning and
pre-readers.
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Excellent in dealing with learning letters and sounds, vocabulary, stories,
rhyming words, word recognition and usage, and spelling for beginning readers.
- Can print in make a card section
- Very interactive, lots of variety, good illustrations, graphics, and sound
- Contains seven different areas from main menu to click on:
- Card section: can create various greetings and graphics
- Make a story by filling in the blank
- Letter machine: push letter and gives sound and sentence, also will
ask to you to find a certain letter
- Houdini: word recognition and usage for prepositions
- 3 letter carnival: word pronunciation, spelling, and rhyming
- Read a rhyme: finish a rhyme in variety of ways
- Make a friend: adjective use, fill in the blank with appropriate word
- Can be networked
- Stimulates children to read and spell
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Pre-K through 2nd grade
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- Easy to install
- Easily navigated, can move forward and back.
- Can only exit from main menu but easily done
- Can't change levels
- Music is repetitive
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Mac, Windows 95, or Windows 3.0 or higher.
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