GeoSafari Phonics Pad

It's interactive, encouraging, engaging, and so educational -- it's simply the best way around for your child to learn to read independently! A multiple award-winner, the GeoSafari Phonics Pad introduces your preschooler to phonics with more than 100 hours of on-their-own reading instruction and games.

Rhymes, songs, and more introduce your child to letters and their sounds, words as groups of letters, and much more, all led by cheerful animal characters. It's easy and fun -- your child listens to each lesson, practices the new skill as many times as necessary, then takes a quiz on what they've learned, responding by simply pressing the correct touch-sensitive pictures on the cards.

The Phonics Pad set features:

• 128 lessons in learning readiness: letters, numbers, shapes, colors, and rhymes
• lessons in phonics: vowels and consonants, blends, and digraphs (pairs of either consonants or vowels that create a single sound, as 'ou' in 'our,' or 'ch' in 'chew')
• lessons in parts of speech: prepositions, adjectives, etc.
• lessons in beginning reading skills
• rows of LEDs that twinkle to reward your child each time they answer a question correctly
• A standard 1/4-inch headphone jack for quiet learning (headphones sold separately).

Requires 4 'C' batteries or an AC adapter (neither are included).

Ages 3 and up.

Awards:

• Curriculum Administrator Districts Choice Top 100 Products
• Technology and Learning School Award of Excellence
• Media and Methods Awards Portfolio Winner
• Learning Magazine Teacher's Choice Award

To experience a sample lesson, play through the interactive demo below. Simply click the ON button, and let the demo be your guide.