Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat - E
Common Sense Note
While this product has a commercial tie-in to the "Cat in the Hat" movie, it's fun to explore, regardless of whether or not your kids have seen the movie. It offers a wide variety of engaging games that impart good reading skills.
Common Sense Review
Reviewed By: Jinny Gudmundsen
While the "Cat in the Hat" movie may have received mixed reviews, the Leapfrog software/book based on this movie is worth exploring. Playable on the LeapPad, the LeapPad Plus, or the Quantum Pad, Dr Seuss' The Cat in the Hat creates a fun environment in which to strengthen second grade reading skills.
While reliving the story of the movie, kids play a variety of learning games that cover contractions, verb tenses, parts of speech, syllables, antonyms, synonyms, homophones and homographs, compound words, sentence structure, phonics, and logical thinking. They also get to interact with the characters from the movie by touching illustrations and hearing accompanying audio.
The activities and games found in this software/book are extremely clever and great fun to play. Because the subject matter is so whimsical, the developers wisely incorporated a zany playfulness in the learning games. For example, to teach verb tense, kids play with typical Seussian rhyme, as they make it read in past or present tense. They must select the correct verb in the rhyme: "They heard/hear a loud BUMP and they jump/jumped from their chairs. Yes, they jump/jumped from the BUMP that they heard/hear from upstairs."
In another activity involving the "phunometer" (a wacky contraption that supposedly "reads" a child's personality), second graders learn about adjectives and adverbs. For the phunometer to work, the Cat in the Hat asks the reader to respond to three questions that must be answered by choosing from a list of 20 adjectives and adverbs displayed on a grid.
While this product has a commercial tie-in to the "Cat in the Hat" movie, it's fun to explore, regardless of whether or not your kids have seen the movie. It offers a wide variety of engaging games that impart good reading skills.
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