Bailey's Book House
by Riverdeep (Edmark)
Explore Letters, Words, Sentences, Rhyming and Stories!
Designed by early learning experts, the award winning Bailey’s Book House encourages young children to build important literacy skills, while developing a love for reading. In seven interactive activities, Bailey and his friends invite learners to explore the sounds and meanings of letters, words, rhymes, and stories. Students design greeting cards and invitations, make stories and print booklets, create “new” Mother Goose rhymes, animate animals that begin with every letter of the alphabet, and learn three-letter words at the carnival.
- Intuitive interface allows young students to interact with the program independently
- All letters, words, and sentences are presented in a meaningful context
- Graphical and spoken instructions allow pre-readers to use the program
- Explore and Discover and Question and Answer modes provide opportunities for independent and structured learning
- A special highlighting technique encourages students to follow words from left to right as they hear them read aloud
- Positive gentle feedback, guidance, and natural prompts provide encouragement to students
Features
- Master Simple Prepositions
Where’s Edmo? It’s up to you! Direct the action and send Edmo and Houdini over, under, in, out, off and on the doghouse.
- Learn Three-Letter Carnival
Sound out words at the Three-Letter Carnival! Group animals and objects by names that rhyme, or group them by names that begin with the same letter.
- Learn the Alphabet
Learn your ABCs with the animated, talking Letter Machine. At the touch of a letter, dinosaurs dance and rhinos roller-skate!
- Make Your Own Rhymes
Rub a dub dub, three kids in a shrub? Mother Goose rhymes take a new twist when you become a poet in Read-A-Rhyme.
- Explore Self-Expression
Make a card for any occasion with Kid Cards. You can decorate and print your own colourful creations.
- Create Your Own Story
Become an author as you send Bailey’s friends on wonderful adventures. Your stories-filled with spaceships, flying carpets, jungles and monsters-can be printed and folded into storybooks.
- Explore Adjectives
Select words to describe your friend’s hair, eyes, nose, mouth, arms, and feet. You’ll learn common adjectives and build descriptive phrases as you watch your friend change.
Learning Opportunities
- Learn Names of Letters
- Recognise Uppercase and Lowercase Letters
- Recognise Rhyming Words
- Sound Out Word Beginnings and Endings
- Learn and Use Common Adjectives and Prepositions
- Build Sentences
- Increase Reading Vocabulary
- Print Your Own Work
Bailey’s Book House is available in two different versions:
- School/Educator version: enhanced package containing Teacher Resource Binders with a Teacher’s Guide, User’s Guide and Additional Resources. School licences may be used on stand-alone or networked computers.
- Home/Student version: contains one CD-ROM and a single user, single computer licence. Not upgradeable to multi-user.
Requirements and ResourcesexpandClick to collapse
- Windows
- Operating System: Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista and 7 (32 and 64 bit Editions)
- Minimum RAM: 4 MB, 8 MB recommended RAM
- Disk Space Required: 34 MB
- Minimum Processor: Pentium II 200 MHz (or equivalent)
- Minimum Display: SVGA, 640×480, 256 colours
- CD-ROM: Min 2x Required
- Sound Card: Windows compatible sound card
- Operating System: Windows 98, Me, 2000, XP, Vista and 7 (32 and 64 bit Editions)
- Macintosh
- Operating System: OS 8.6+, OS X 10.2.x-10.4.x (Native)
- Minimum RAM: 4 MB, 8 MB recommended RAM
- Disk Space Required: 63 MB
- Minimum Processor: G3
- Minimum Display: 256 colours
- CD-ROM: Min 2x Required
- Operating System: OS 8.6+, OS X 10.2.x-10.4.x (Native)
Network System Requirements
Server
- Operating System: Windows NT 4, 2000, 2003 or later, Mac AppleShare 6.0.3 or later (Macintosh only), OS X 10.2 Server or later
- Disk Space Required: 115 MB
Bailey's Book House is targeted at the following age ranges:
- Early Childhood
- Early Primary
Bailey's Book House is designed to foster development in the areas of:
- Early concepts
- Literacy
- Numeracy
- Problem solving
Users can access Bailey's Book House in the following ways:
- Mouse/ Trackball/ Joystick
- Touchscreen
- Single Switch
For answers to Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) and technical support visit:
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