Read, Write & Type Jewel Case :: Education by Design Store

Editorial Review
Enables Children to Write Whatever They Can Say. (Age 6 - 8). Combines a strong phonics approach with writing and typing skills. Teaches these skills simultaneously as children progress through a 40-lesson adventure, building a multitude of animated sentences and writing their own stories. Integrates three essential skills into one essential program. Children help the Storytellers write animated stories while building skills in phonics, reading, and keyboarding. Includes 57 sound games with more than 200 words with accompanying pictures. A progressively challenging sequence begins with single letters, advances to whole words, and concludes with complete sentences, including capitalization and punctuation.Windows 95/98, 486/66 MHz or faster, 4 MB RAM, 2 MB free hard disk space, 2X CD-ROM drive, SVGA display and 256 Colors, Windows compatible sound device, WinG included on the CD. Printer Recommended System Requirements for Macintosh
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Customer Reviews

Excellent Typing Software

2008-07-21
I have a second grader with dyslexia who needs to learn typing. We started off using Typing with Timon and Pumba and found the program to be horrible. Like many typing programs, it assumed that you are a fast, strong reader. This program was great! Not only did it teach typing, it also worked on reading, writing, and phonemic awareness. All information is presented orally and gets progressively more challenging difficult. My kid is no fool to "educational" video games and is not crazy about most games that teach as you play. That being said, she loves this game and wants to play longer everyday.

After purchasing this game, I realized that it only ran on Windows 95 machines. We no longer have any computers that use 95... I visited the Read Write Type website (http://www.readwritetype.com) and found a fix to the program. It is a simple download that includes installation instructions.

Old Software

2008-01-28
This software is for OLD computers. It is a waste of money to buy it in 2008.

Beware - Only works on very old O/S

2007-11-20
I bought this assuming it would work with either our 2-yr old Windows PC or our 2-yr old or 5-yr old Macs -- It was only compatible w/ Windows 95 or extremely old Mac O/S and would not work with any of our computers. Worthless and extremely disappointing to my 7-yr old. Beware!!!

Check Operating System before purchasing

2007-07-26
I bought this assuming to would be current with my Windows XP-- It was only compatible w/ Windows 95 and would not work.

A fun way to learn typing

2006-12-31
My kids (5 & 8) used this program for a few weeks this summer, and already they are both being able to type with the correct fingers. It is an old program, but it is a lot of fun. With all the programs out there that spend more time playing games than actually teaching, this was very refreshing. It makes the learning fun, but all the activities are geared toward learning. My kids still love it.

Read Write and Type

2006-08-15
Enables Children to Write Whatever They Can Say. (Age 6 - 8). Combines a strong phonics approach with writing and typing skills. Teaches these skills simultaneously as children progress through a 40-lesson adventure, building a multitude of animated sentences and writing their own stories. Integrates three essential skills into one essential program. Children help the Storytellers write animated stories while building skills in phonics, reading, and keyboarding. Includes 57 sound games with more than 200 words with accompanying pictures. A progressively challenging sequence begins with single letters, advances to whole words, and concludes with complete sentences, including capitalization and punctuation.Windows 95/98, 486/66 MHz or faster, 4 MB RAM, 2 MB free hard disk space, 2X CD-ROM drive, SVGA display and 256 Colors, Windows compatible sound device, WinG included on the CD. Printer Recommended System Requirements for Macintosh

Highly Recommended

2005-01-22
Children learn to type by sound from individual letter sounds to sentences in this program, formerly "Talking Fingers." Read, Write, and Type does very well correlating sounds to letter keys with the help of left and right hand animations that guide the finger and hand placement.
Plan on sitting with your child if you want them to learn to type correctly. The program could have had a few more audio prompts for the typing aspect of the program, such as looking at the screen while finding keys with their fingers, especially when the excercises go from typing one letter to short sentences. You'll need to remind them to relax the hands while over the keyboard to help them reach for the keys and develop dexterity. Another common mistake is that the child presses too slowly, which makes the key repeat many times on a computer, and then shows up as an error, making them repeat the exercise. This IS a program that some children are not ready for, and it can also be frustrating if the child doesn't succeed in the excercises, as they will not be able to move on to the next story. Kids will naturally want to advance in the program's storyline, a catchy chase to earn back (doing typing exercises) all of the storytellers who occupy the keys, stolen by Vexor the Virus, and they will often need someone right there to remind them to "power up!" This is the kind of video game parents of 6-8 year olds WANT their child to play!

Read, Write & Type and Learn

2004-06-19
My son first played this game in the computer lab at school and begged me to buy it! It teaches typing skills and phonics. Foil the evil blob by typing the letters on the keyboard. He rates it a FUN game!