My First Incredible Amazing Dictionary 2.0
My First Incredible Amazing Dictionary 2.0 is an activity-packed adventure trail of fascinating and fun-filled encounters with first words!
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My First Incredible Amazing Dictionary 2.0 Reviews
It is wonderful for homeschooling or just to give the child an edge in school. He will be. I think this is an excellent idea from DK and definitely wonderful teaching tool. But if you are just looking for a game, this is not really a game and your child probably won't play it too long, compared to other computer games. I give him a small candy as a reward afterwards, and he doesn't mind doing it because the animated pictures are very interesting, and all different. Besides the dictionary, it also has word games, but my son isn't ready for it now. The words are presented in a list with pictures, and when he clicks on the picture the word comes out.
My boy spent about 10 hours clicking around it when I first showed him the game. Highly recommended for homeschoolers. Now, I am currently making him go through 16 words a day, in alphabetical order, to write each word down as he listens to its pronunciation and meaning. It is a straight forward but well designed list of about 1000 first words. My First Incredible Amazing Dictionary is exactly what I was looking for to teach my 5 year old reading and vocabulary. The dictionary pronounces the word, pronounces the entire explanation, then shows an animated picture that demonstrates the meaning of the word.
A click on any picture sends the child to the page for that word. All of them loved it. Besides the dictionary, there are games that children will find fun to try alone or with a friend. Will it be animation of the picture, a sound or both. The vocabulary items include the obligatory concrete nouns, but also abstract verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and prepostions.
The graphics, animation, and sounds are mesmerizing. The child then has the option to click on the word itself or the word's definition, which will result in voicing of the text. After clicking on a letter of the alphabet, the child is taken to a page with pictures of words for that letter, arranged in dictionary format. Whatever the case, children are usually delighted. The fun is in discovering what will happen with this click.
Any child who can point and click can easily entertain himself for at least 30 minutes at at time. Enjoy. There are easy links provided for words with the same spelling but different meanings. Pre-readers up through 3rd graders (or so) will find this software easy to use and intriguing. The child can click on the large colorful photgraph or cartoon drawing depicting the word.
Dorling-Kindersley's My First Amazing Incredible Dictionary is an absolute delight. I have used this software with hearing impaired, speech impaired, and learning disabled children at work as a speech/language pathologist.
This program introduces children to more than 1,000 words andtheir meanings through pictures, sound effects and spoken words.
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