Week 5

I plan to use Primarygames.com and more specifically the ABC game. This game shows the player a letter and three cartoon pictures. The player then has to choose the picture that starts with that letter. The program then confirms the correct answer. The correct picture is displayed with the word, the letter highlighted at the beginning of the word. This game chooses pictures that are appealing to children of the age that is usually learning to read and uses them to help the child to associate the letters with the sounds that they make and reinforces that by displaying the word with the picture helping the child to identify words in preparation for them to begin reading. The drawback I found with this game is that in the beginning you would have to sit with a child and help them through this game till they have some basic reading skills or are familiar enough with the game to be able to play it without reading.