Stickybear's ABC
© 1981 Optimum Resource, Inc.
Based on a children's book and first released over 20 years ago, this new age version of Stickybear's ABC offers four very limited activities and can be played in exploratory free play mode or in structured mode. In Pick It, children practice skills freely by pressing the keyboard letter or clicking the onscreen alphabet, which provides a spoken and displayed animation to illustrate that letter H is for Helicopter. Write It introduces each letter with a short animation of how they are written. Find it asked kids to find the words that are associated with a given letter, and Say It builds word recognition and vocabulary skills while students increase their letter comprehension. The activities are very limited by current standards. There is no progress report or record-keeping, but the program does remember where each child leaves off, if they type their name the same way each time they sign in. (A better design would present the list of students each time so that a child can just click on his or her name.) Teachers will like the lesson plans and worksheets, but the software activities don't have enough zip or play time to warrant the purchase.
$59.95, Win, Mac OS (CD-ROM)
Teaches: reading, letters, phonics