Reader Rabbit 1st Grade Classic (Jewel Case)

by The Learning Company

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000078CON
• Item model number: 381464
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 16, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,306 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #71 in Software > Children's Software > Reading & Language
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Reader Rabbit 1st Grade Classic delivers learning fun for ages 5 to 7. Kids take a joyful journey with Reader Rabbit and friends, during which they adventure and play through 12 activities and learn 14 sing-along songs. Three difficulty levels help kids develop reading comprehension and problem-solving abilities, while building spelling, phonics, and basic math skills. In all, 90 age-appropriate skills are covered, making for unforgettable educational fun with Reader Rabbit.

Product Description

Fly up high and learn 1st grade skills with Reader Rabbit on Cloud Nine!

Product Information

What's up with the weather? Fly up to Cloud Nine with Reader Rabbit and friends to discover why it's raining umbrellas, raincoats, and galoshes!

Your skills in reading, math, science, problem solving, and more will help you discover placeslike the Raingear Forest and meet colorful characters like the Cloud Queen. Explore 7 fun-filled activities you will also meet Irvin the Inventor and his unpredictable throwing machine. Will he be able to solve this crazy rainfall problem? Only withyour help!

With Capers on Cloud Nine, your forecast calls for a 100% chance of learning fun!




Learning Creations activities provide extra fun for curious minds! This imagination workshop encourages children toexercise their creative skills and design one-of-a-kind masterpieces. These lively and colorful activities balance logical thinking with creative exploration in art, music, and more!

Discover core skills in Reader Rabbit 1st Grade!

• Adding with counters
• Subtracting with counters
• Creating equivalent equations
• Recognizing and using coins
• Adding coins to reach a target amount
• Spelling
• Reading Comprehension
• Developing vocabulary
• Developing phonic skills
• Developing phonemic awareness
• Identifying animal traits and habitats
• Sorting by multiple attributes
• Extending color and sound patterns
• Problem solving
• Predicting direction and position
• Creating pictures
• Animating pictures
• Learning about calendars
• Creating music

Product Features

• Soar through 7 entertaining and educational activities-Raingear Forest Math,Flowerpot Phonics, Silly Sandwich Shop, Amazing Art Gallery, Cloud Spell

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Terrific for the kids but with a few annoyances for the computer owner, November 29, 2008

By 

R. W. Russell "midway42.org" (Lodi, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reader Rabbit 1st Grade Classic (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

As other reviewers have stated, it's an excellent interactive learning experience for your child. I give it 4 or 5 stars on that alone. But I was dismayed to find that the setup process stuck an AOL promotion on my desktop (my other Reader Rabbit programs also did it). And of course, the unwelcome desktop icon was just a shortcut; I had to search in the Programs folder for the AOL executable file in order to delete it.

This sort of thing is not terribly unusual with free applications that you download from the Internet, but when I pay money for a program, I don't expect it to invade my computer with adware junk.

Another problem is that once you've started one of the programs running, there's no way to back out of it or shut it down before it quits. There's no right-click menu with a Cancel button or anything like that. Very inconvenient if you're simply giving a program a quick test. I had to use the Windows CTRL-ALT-DEL trick to shut it down in midstream.

Still another gripe: the install process does not put the entire disc on your hard drive. To run the program, you have to insert it in your CD or DVD drive before starting it from the Program menu. Remember computers in 1980 with 2 floppy discs to make anything work?

Bottom line: great for the kid, but a pain in the behind for whoever does computers in your home.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars My students love this game, January 19, 2004

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Kelli (Somewhere out west) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Reader Rabbit 1st Grade Classic (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

I work in a special education room in an elementary school. The kids in my room love this game. It has good skills on it, like reading, math, science, etc. It is also really fun.

3.0 out of 5 stars Does not work well with Vista, September 26, 2010

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R. Sammons "RPS1965" (Philadelphia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Reader Rabbit 1st Grade Classic (Jewel Case) (CD-ROM)

Kids absolutley love the game, but getting it to work on a newer computer is a pain. If you have an older machine running Windows 95/98 I highly recommend this software. If you have a newer machine you can get it to run but it takes work and it is not stable. When running on Vista there is no way to exit the program from most screens, so you have the use CTRL-ALT-DEL and shut the software down in the task manager. If you try to run the software in "Personalized Mode" it does not seem to work at all. If there is a newer version I would recommend that for newer machines. Once you get it running your kids will love it.