Strengthens Reading Success through Thinking and Exploration



Robby the Raccoon and Emily the Squirrel are back to take kids under the sea in search of a lost bookmobile. Kids work characters like the Word Whale and Marvin the Marlin as they explore 11 exciting undersea locations to decode hundreds of words and expand their reading comprehension. More than 125 lessons help kids apply their reading knowledge and develop new skills.  

• Story Lines
• Blending Multiple Letter Sounds
• Short & Long Vowels
• Identifying New Words
• Building 3- to 5-Letter Words
• Vocabulary
• Reading Comprehension

Oysters and Pearls
Help Robby put pictures of words that contain the target blend or digraph sound into each Oyster.

Word Building
The Reading Rover runs on word power! Drag one of the Letter Chips into the missing space to create a word and recharge the Rover.

Blend Bubbles
Combine consonants to make Blend Bubbles to feed to the Puffer Fish. When a Puffer Fish is puffed up, it floats away to look for the bookmobile!

Books
The Word Whale helps the Reading Rover find the books under the sea. Read the books to yourself, or click to have parts read aloud to you.

• Windows 98, Me, XP
• 166 MHz Pentium or faster processor (Pentium II 300 MHz for Windows XP)
• 32 MB of RAM (128 MB RAM for Windows XP)
• 45 MB free hard disk space
• Windows-compatible sound card
• Speakers
• 640x480 monitor, 256 colors
• 8X CD-ROM drive
• High quality microphone (optional - not included) *

* Required for speech recognition

• Mac OS 8.6 to 9.2.2 (not including OS X Classic)
• Power PC 120 MHz processor or faster
• 32 MB RAM
• 45 MB free hard disk space
• 640x480 monitor, 256 colors
• 8X CD-ROM drive
• High quality microphone  (optional - not included) *

* Required for speech recognition