Achieve! Writing & Language Arts Grades 3-6

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Product Features

• Windows: 166 MHz Pentium or faster Windows 95B-XP 45 MB available hard disk space 32 MB of memory (RAM) 8x CD-ROM drive
• Windows-compatible sound card Mouse Macintosh: PowerPC 120 MHz or faster OS 8.6 to 9.2.2
• 45 MB available hard disk space 32 MB of memory (RAM) 8x CD-ROM drive Mouse
• Encore/ RiverDeep
• PC

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00007I222
• Item model number: 381880
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 16, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #4,135 in Software (See Bestsellers in Software)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description
Achieve! Writing & Language Arts brings four award-winning educational titles in one to your child's desktop. Designed for younger learners, a combination of memorable music, appealing characters, intriguing environments, and clever word games build language and grammar skills. Tackle sentence structure, learn about synonyms and antonyms, explore language concepts, and more. Featured titles include: Word Munchers Deluxe, Schoolhouse Rock! Grammar Rock, The Writing Trek, and Strategy Challenges 2: In the Wild. When grammar and vocabulary are made this much fun, young learners achieve at learning.

Product Description
Develop skills. Improve grades. Build confidence. ACHIEVE! ACHIEVE! Writing&Language Arts is a great tool to help children achieve their personal best! This collection of award-winning software titles is designed to improve grades and skills in school - regardless of a child's current level. ACHIEVE! Writing&Language Arts offers more than 35 activities to make learning fun, and the interactive computer provides hours of learning possibilities. Whether it's expanding a child's vocabulary or building writing skills, ACHIEVE! can help. Give your child the boost he or she needs to ACHIEVE! in school.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

41 of 47 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not age appropriate - best for grades 1-4 (5 at most), May 29, 2003

By	S. Mathison "drummermom" (Long Beach, CA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I purchased this product for a couple of reasons. The first is because of the good reputation of The Learning Company (I have several of their products) and "Schoolhouse Rock". Also, my child is completing 3rd grade this month. Software that reviewed third grade and went on into the next three years of school seemed perfect.

Unfortunately, after I installed and started one of the four CDs, "Schoolhouse Rock", the program stated that it was for ages 6-10 (corresponding to grades 1-5). Another program, "Word Munchers Deluxe", also said it was for grades 1-5 after installing and running the program. This difference in age ranges is not stated anywhere in the discription or on the packaging of the software. The front of all of the CDs says "Ages 8-12", but this is not the case. These two programs look like my childs kindergarten and first grade level programs that he grew out of a couple of years ago. They focused on that level of computer experience as well. I would have been ok with grades 3-5 (ages 8-11) but the characters, graphics, and instructions were for a younger age group. It was too slow.

"The Writing Trek" was very boring - maybe a good curriculum guide for elementary school teachers. The last program, "Strategy Challanges" wouldn't run at all, but I didn't care to find out why. I just uninstalled everything, and I hope to exchange it for something else. My child will not use these - they are not appropriate for his age.

Another problem was found upon installing "The Writing Trek" CD - it says it is for ages 4-6. This must be an error.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Product is not very good, January 31, 2004

By	Charles P. Jerian (Palo Alto,CA, USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I got this product for my 5 year old, and it is about right,
any 3-6th grade would not like it at all. The best thing in the game is the free cluefinders monkey adventure in my costco box.
Most of the games look like they were designed for windows 95.

I liked the clips from grammar rock, I remember these as a kid, but you could by the DVD of Schoolhouse rock and get better versions of those.

3 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Good theme, low quality software, May 7, 2005

By	ReadersRUs (California USA) - See all my reviews

The goal behind this software is great. We bought this to give our computer savvy child some practice on writing and language art. The software is not of good quality. It has hard to use user interface. Especially compared to other educational software, this lacks the finish. My son soon got bored and has never used this.