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• Exciting, interactive, learning adventure with Mia the mouse
• 9 full-featured literary-skills activities each with 4 levels of difficulty
• Specially adapted, navigation engine for complete control over Mia
• Teaches spelling, vocabulary, reading, phonics, word recognition, and more
• For kids ages 5 to 9
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.5 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.4 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.3 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 20 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Windows 98 / Windows 2000 / Windows Me / Windows XP / Mac OS X | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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Average Customer Review:
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43 of 44 found the following review helpful:
 Great Fun and Learning!Feb 17, 2005
By M. Drake
I bought this for my daughter when she turned 4 as she was already starting to learn to read. It took her a little while to follow the story and find the clues (I helped her with that). Once she had that figured out, it became her favorite computer game. She loves all the games, they were challenging but not too difficult for her on level 1 (there are 5 or 6 levels as I recall). She has since moved on to more difficult levels and still really enjoys it 1.5 years later. If your child is great at exploring computer programs and seeking for objects and clues this is an excellent reading program that won't bore them. If your child doesn't enjoy the "search," the games are still very much worth the money. I should also mention that the little cd-rom book that comes with it tells you exactly where to find everything for those who get frustrated with the search.
24 of 25 found the following review helpful:
Finally, my daughter can read!Aug 12, 2005
By Anita Amesse
"Anita"
Finally, a program that caters to girls instead of just boys. Well, boys can play this too, but i find it very female friendly. My daugthers love it and fight over who gets to use it. My littlest is really shy and was having problems in kindergarten and afraid to ask for help. Now, she is starting to get the hang of spelling and feels so confident about it and always wants to play with Mia. We tried reader rabbit kindergarten as well but I found it wasn't effective as it didn't keep her attention long enough to start understanding the educational concepts. I will definitely recommend this for all parents who want to reinforce the basics of reading and writing.
17 of 19 found the following review helpful:
 Graphics are excellent but game sucks.Jul 20, 2006
By Miriam Bookey
The creators of Mia's Reading Adventure would be better engaged creating movies and not children's games. There is just way too much expository and not enough interaction to make this worth your child's effort. If you're looking to teach your pre-k/k child reading skills I'd recommend the Blue's Clues games instead. Any older children would probably get as frustrated as mine did.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Mia's Reading Adventure:The Search For Grandma's RemedyNov 09, 2006
By Maryla
this item was bought for a friend's grandaughter after purchasing the math software of the same character. Her reading level has improved since using this program. We're hoping more of Mia's software will be available for other subjects. I recommend the Mia series for young children to help them increase their reading and math skills.
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 Sadly DisappointingOct 17, 2007
By Emporer of Ice Cream
I bought this game in hopes of adding a good repertoire of word play and phonetic computer activities to my child's reading activities. What I got was aimless wandering and a watered down version of an adventure game.
Those who say that this game is outstanding are surely misleading the public.
My concerns with this game:
The introductions are long and there is no way to skip them. The folks who developed this game were so enamored by their own handiwork that there IS an option to view the exceptionally long introduction on its own just in case you would like to watch it over and over again--Nothing to do with reading.
If you want to opt out of the storybook adventure part of the game and move from just activity to activity, you may! You will, however, find, to your dismay, that each activity is never a new game. Once you've done it--you've seen it! I was floored. For example: My daughter and I opened the "Scary Spider" activity under the second level, it was a letter scramble theme where you were to choose from seven letters combinations that would form words. When you had successfully made five short words from the scramble, Scary scares the cat. Wonderful! Our letter choices were C, D, I, M, E, and R. Ask me how I remember? When we entered the activity a second, third and fourth time it was the SAME JUMBLE EACH TIME. I can only assume that each level of the activity might have been different, but the idea that the game was so incredibly finite where the opportunity for learning could have been inexhaustible disgusted me thoroughly and I ended our experience right there. Why reveal the other three levels in ten minutes? Such a waste...
I also did not like the themes involved with this game. Stereotypes of people with accents got on my nerves. The days of Looney Tunes and the stereotype of "the lazy Mexican" are long over. While those cartoons still exist there are at least disclaimers on the DVDs that promote them to show that these racial and cultural depictions were reflections of attitudes openly prevalent the early forties and fifties. We're supposed to know better today. Worse yet, the activity that is run by the sleepy mouse with the accent confuses children (and adults alike) by rejecting sentences that are syntactically correct. Poor.
For these reasons I personally give the game a two. Many of Mia's antics made the children laugh. I must say that the activities are well constructed, yet fail miserably in variety of exploration. To save anyone else the disappointment of thinking they got an award-winning tool to help his/her child along with reading I must display a star of one. Skip this one and save your money so that manufacturers will know that we need better software to help our kids explore the amazing world of phonemes, spelling and sentence structure. Children certainly deserve better.
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