Key Skills Series
© 2003 Sunburst Technology
Expensive but well designed, this series of K-6 math and reading programs targets eight topics, including letters, words, shapes, numbers, measurement, multiplication and beginning reading skills like phonics and sight words. Each CD offers about a dozen activities that are generally of very good quality. The K-2 phonics program, for instance, has kids identifying words with requested vowel sounds (kids click on the correct frog who zaps the word with his long tongue). Another exercise has students placing horses in alphabetical order prior to the start of a horse race. Records of student progress are kept, and a teacher management system helps match the appropriate exercises to each student.
$119, Windows, Macintosh
Teaches: math, reading