Dragon Park

Game Summary:
Dragon Park consists of five phases, or levels of difficulty, that 
flow into each other as your child completes each phase 
successfully. Your child is currently in phase 2-4.

Like its counterpart game, Dragon Park has a final phase that 
teaches children more than five hundred vocabulary words-
words that, when mastered, will complete the Storybook and save 
the Imagination Space Station. The main difference between the 
two games-other than the characters presented and the screen 
configurations--is that the final phase of Dragon Park consists of 
a more difficult operation--a sorting process--that represents the 
most challenging component of all Electric Reading Land 
activities. This game, therefore, will feel most comfortable to 
older emerging readers-six- to seven-year-olds.

Let's Play:

Phase two: 
When you notice that the picture in the treasure chest must be 
matched to one of the onsets in the row of boxes, phase two of 
Dragon Park has begun. Mick asks your child, for example, to 
"Find the letter that sounds like h as in hat." Your child will have 
to choose an onset among two, three, and then four choices in the 
row of boxes above the word pictured in the treasure chest.

The visual and audio sequences that accompany correct or 
incorrect selections are consistent with those in phase one.

Phase three: 
When your child has completed phase two, the letters in the row 
of four boxes will become rimes, a signal that phase three has 
begun. The selection process for this level is identical to that in 
phase two, except the word pictured in the treasure chest and 
spoken by Mick the Helpbot must be matched to its appropriate 
rime: "Find the letters that sound like -an as in fan."

REMINDER: 
If your child leaves the game at any time, either to return to the 
Main Hub or to end the program for the day, the program saves 
their location in the game so that when they return to it they will 
not need to start again.

Phase four: 
When no pictures are visible and the treasure chest is empty, then 
phase four has begun. In this phase Mick asks your child to select 
from a group onsets or a group of rimes the one that matches the 
word he sounds out. As there is no concrete clue to assist them, 
this represents an important step up in difficulty. When your child 
has mastered this phase, they should be ready to tackle the most 
advanced element of Electric Reading Land: phase five of 
Dragon Park.

When phase four is finished a brief review sequence begins, as a 
trasition to the next phase. The yellow box suddenly appears in 
the center. of the screen and one by one the box spells out  (as 
Mick sounds them out) the words that have been contained in 
phases one through four. The sequence takes place just before 
phase five starts.


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Copyright 1993 D.C. True, Ltd.

