Dora to the Rescue for My First LeapPad

Your child can team up with Dora and Boots as they lend a hand to reunite a lost little bird with her mother.

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20 Games and 2 Songs

Side 1
Come on Vamonos! Help Dora and Boots rescue a lost Little Bird.
Side 2
Play games with Dora and friends, learn Spanish, count to ten and more!

Cartridge containing the 20 games and songs

Includes plug-in Cartridge containing all the activities for this book.

"Dora the Explorer to the Rescue" teaches story comprehension, character comprehension, vocabulary in English and Spanish, problem solving, cooperation, and shapes and colours.

This Book requires a My First LeapPad to function.

These books are the UK version with English spellings and narration.
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Educational Focus

Phonics refers to a way of teaching word recognition that emphasises the relationship between the sounds in spoken words (/k/ /a/ /t/) and the letters that represent those sounds ("cat"). At this age, the success of any phonics program will directly relate to a child's phonological awareness, the awareness that words are made of sounds and the ability to manipulate those sounds. For example, preschool and early school children have an easier time learning to decode if they can tell you that the three sounds in, for example, /k/ /a/ /t/, blended together, will say "cat." Phonics is an important tool in teaching children to read and spell because English is an alphabetic language, that is, a language that represents its sounds with letters. In English, 89% of all word spellings follow reliable sound/symbol correspondences. The purpose of phonics instruction is not that children learn to sound out words, but that they learn to recognise words quickly and automatically, so that they can turn their attention to understanding what they read. Phonics instruction shouldn't last long; it should be based on a good phonological awareness base; it should be clear and direct; contain blending instruction, and integrated into a total reading program, that includes a great deal of reading aloud. The program should contain many chances for children to apply the sound/symbol relationships they have learned.

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Foreign language refers to languages of a culture different from one's native culture. Language sounds vary from culture to culture. At a very young age, infants begin to isolate the sounds of their native language and start to lose their ability to perceive the sounds of the world's languages. Early and continued exposure to language sounds from a variety of cultures may enhance children's ability to speak both their native language and foreign languages.

Cooperation refers to the ability to balance one's own needs with someone else's. As children increasingly interact with one another (during group play, in the classroom, etc.), they develop cooperation skills, such as taking turns and sharing. They see that their actions and words affect others, and they begin to use words to solve their problems.

Reading refers to the process of understanding a written, linguistic message; the process of obtaining meaning from printed language; or the process of orally expressing printed language in a meaningful way. Reading is primarily a function of decoding skill (the process of getting meaning from written symbols) and listening comprehension. Most developing readers understand more of what's read to them than they can read themselves, but by age 9+, most children can read a written text and comprehend it as well as if it were read to them. Reading success for preschoolers and early primary depends upon their oral language skills, letter knowledge, print awareness, and motivation to learn about and appreciate different forms of writing (e.g., letters, story books, nursery rhymes, nonfiction books, lists of things to do). Children develop early reading skills by building upon their understanding that words are made of sounds (phonemic awareness) and their understanding that these sounds are represented by letters of the alphabet. Therefore, rhyming and alliteration play key roles by calling attention to the sounds of language. Encouraging children to write and giving them many opportunities to read are also important. Preschoolers and early primary children properly pronounce an increasing number of words, know synonyms for common words and even begin to understand the structure of words (e.g., compound words such as "flashlight," simple prefixes such as un- in "unable," simple suffixes such as -ing in "running"). As children develop listening comprehension, they explore the uses and functions of written language. Children practice and enhance their vocabulary, language skills and comprehension skills by discussing what's read to them, predicting upcoming text, asking questions, or retelling stories they've heard or read themselves.

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