Dino Beach

Game Summary:
This game consists of five question-and-answer activities that 
flow into one another and advance in difficulty as the game 
progresses. Your child is in phase 5.

This game is intended for those children on the brink of fully 
comprehending letter-sound relationships and who are almost 
ready to form words. If your child has played the Phonics Toy 
successfully or has had some prereading instruction in school, he 
or she will be very comfortable with Dino Beach. 


Let's Play:

Phase five: 
For this most challenging phase Mick asks your child to pair an 
onset or a rime that is on the surfboard with a selection of onsets 
or rimes in the meteors to create the word he is playing. For 
example, if the surfboard shows the onset c, and Mick is playing 
the word cat, Mick asks your child to find the rime among those 
on the meteors that will complete the word cat. Mick may also 
verbalize a word and ask your child to pick a word. By this stage 
your child is mastering letter sounds and their combinations. If 
your child has difficulty with this phase, you may want to comfort 
him or her by returning to the Phonics Toy and playing along for 
a while. Five to ten minutes a day of practice will work wonders.

This final phase operates the same way as phase four, but here the 
word list is considerably longer and the onsets and rimes include 
some that have not been introduced previously. Your child will 
learn decoding skills and a total of 527 words in this phase, a 
vocabulary that will put them well on their way to reading most 
of the words that they would encounter in their early readers and 
picture books.

NOTE: 
It is in this final phase that your child will be learning the words 
that Jimi will insert into the storybook that saves the Imagination 
Space Station. At any time during the playing of phase five of 
Dino Beach your child can return to the Main Hub (by single-
clicking on the spaceship icon) and then enter the storybook (by 
single-clicking on the book icon.) They can read the story, go 
back to playing Dino Beach, and then check their progress by 
rechecking the storybook and its characters. In this way your 
child receives a tangible reward for successfully learning the 
words in phase five of Dino Beach.


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Copyright 1993 D.C. True, Ltd.

