ClickN' Read interactive phonics program.Manufacturer: ClickN' Kids Inc., Agoura Hills Description: Online interactive beginning-reader software Price: $79.95; $19.95 for each additional child A program originally made available only through schools, ClickN' Read phonics phonics Method of reading instruction that breaks language down into its simplest components. Children learn the sounds of individual letters first, then the sounds of letters in combination and in simple words. can be purchased by the public for home use. The program includes 100 animated, interactive lesson plans that last for roughly 30 minutes. They connect short stories with reading and comprehension skills. ClickN' Read can be used by children as young as 4 but is targeted for 6- and 7-year-olds who are beginning to read. It teaches a full kindergarten kindergarten [Ger.,=garden of children], system of preschool education. Friedrich Froebel designed (1837) the kindergarten to provide an educational situation less formal than that of the elementary school but one in which children's creative play instincts would be to third-grade phonics curriculum. The program may be especially useful for those with trouble grasping grasping a similar equine neurosis to windsucking; the horse grasps a fixed object with its teeth, but does not swallow air. the alphabet alphabet [Gr. alpha-beta, like Eng. ABC], system of writing, theoretically having a one-for-one relation between character (or letter) and phoneme (see phonetics). Few alphabets have achieved the ideal exactness. , phonetics phonetics (fōnĕt`ĭks, fə–), study of the sounds of languages from three basic points of view. Phonetics studies speech sounds according to their production in the vocal organs (articulatory phonetics), their physical properties and word-decoding skills. The program simulates actual classroom instruction, generating a report after each lesson about the child's success so progress can be tracked over time. It is available online at clicknkids.com and can be updated through the company's Web site. |
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