Sunday, February 13, 2011

My Reading Tutor Nintendo DS Game Review & Giveaway

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My Reading Tutor based on the multiple award winning My Virtual Tutor, is an effective and fun way to help young readers enhance their foundational reading skills. Supported by university teaching experts, extensive research, and expert video game designers, the soft spoken tutor provides a one on one approach to help players as they learn and grow. Features 4 illustrated storybooks with guided reading support to improve comprehension and fluency skills. Parent mode helps track player's progress and time on task. Interactive phonics games, quizzes, and puzzles provide fun reinforcement. For early readers ages 5 and up

• Instructions from the Tutor introduce and explain each phonics concept.
• Games, quizzes, word puzzles and precise examples from each unit are used as part of the phonics and game exercises.
• There are 14 Complete Story Books to read, with comprehension quizzes to help ensure that children are not only reading, but also remember and understand what they read.
• Each concept is represented by its own train station with its own station master mascot. Once a concept is completed players can travel to the next station, providing a continualsense of progression and achievement.

My Reading Tutor is a fun to play, comprehensive, scientifically-based tutoring program that teaches children to read. This is for Kindergarten to Second Grade learning progression. It Teaches eight Phonics and Reading Concepts:
Consonants Short Vowels Short vs. Long Vowels Consonant Blends Team Vowels ai, ay, ea, oa Team Vowels oo, oo, oi, oy, ou, ow, au, aw Crazy R’s and Multisyllabic words.
This game is definately worth buying. Kids will enjoy playing this game and learn at the same time. Win-Win situtation!!! I love the parents mode too, where parents can track progression and time spent in the games and skills mode.

Check out all these **Key Features**
•My Reading Tutor is a culmination of more that six years of research and testing in reading, pedagogy, and literacy.
•14 Complete Story Books to read and reinforce skills
•Fun interactive puzzles and games to enhance learning
•Establish reading comprehension skills
•Parent mode to track success and progress
•One to One personalized instruction
•Proven Effectiveness
•Six years and $6 million of research and development were invested at the University of Colorado to create the proprietary Foundations to Literacy software that My Reading Tutor is based on.
•The proprietary software used in My Reading Tutor has been tested and proven effective with over 2500 students.
•In early studies students on average showed a 50% GAIN in reading scores vs. students who did not use the software.


My Reading Tutor for the Nintendo DS is available at mass and specialty retailers for a suggested retail price of $19.99. My Reading Tutor is rated E (Everyone) by the ESRB. You can purchase it here.

Or Win it!!! One of my lucky readers can win their choice of My Reading Tutor or Chaos Cosmos Nintendo DS Game.

MANDATORY/REQUIRED ENTRY:
Visit ThinkSMART Games and leave a Comment telling me which one you would like and why.

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This giveaway is open to US residents only. Please leave a separate comment for each entry.(Please make sure if you are anonymous you leave your email address with your comments.)
This giveaway will end on February 27th at 11:59 pm Est. The winner will be notified and have 48 hours to respond to my email or another winner will be chosen.


*Disclosure: I received My reading Tutor Nintendo DS Game for the purpose of this review. This is my honest thoughts and opinion.*

140 comments:

Diana D said...

Mt reading Tutor would be my choice. Thanks for the wonderful giveaway


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rubynreba said...

My Reading Tutor would be my choice because my little granddaughter is learning to read and this would be so helpful.
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I would choose Reading Tutor because we are working on reading skills right now. Thanks for the chance, justicecw@hotmail.com

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abfantom said...

My daughter would like Cosmos Chaos! DS because she loves to read and playing adventure games on her DS.

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Anonymous said...

My reading tutor would be so fantastic. I have 2 children that are currently in tutoring twice weekly to help with reading and this looks like it would fit in to helping them.

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mogrill said...

I like my Reading tutor because my daughter is struggling.
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pauline15 said...

My kids would love cosmic chaos! We always go for a great adventure!
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Anonymous said...

I'd love the Cosmos Chaos! DS because my son would love to play it. It's perfect for his age!

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My Reading Tutor would be the game of choose for our household.

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Unknown said...

I would love the My Virtual Tutor: Reading because I have three children, two of which have not yet started kindergarten, and would greatly benefit from this reading program!

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rdsd221 said...

I never heard of this before. My Reading Tutor would be perfect for my almost 5 yr old.

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I would love My Reading Tutor because my daughter is learning how to read and it looks like a lot of fun and very educational at the same time!
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I would choose the Chaos Cosmos Nintendo DS Game. It is in the age range for my twins and the focus is on vocab words. Love the feel of an action game, while still learning!

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