Read, Write, & Type!
Read, Write & Type is a 1995 educational video game from The Learning Company. The game is for ages 5 to 9.
Read, Write, & Type!
- Date
- 1994
- Publisher
- The Learning Company
- Genre
- educational video game
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Read, Write & Type is a 1995 educational video game from The Learning Company. The game is for ages 5 to 9.
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Key facts
• Title — Read, Write & Type • Developer — Presage Software • Publisher — The Learning Company • Released — 1995 • Genre — Educational • Platforms — Windows Macintosh
Gameplay
Gameplay
"Read, Write & Type" helps students develop phonics, spelling, and typing skills by associating sounds with keyboard letters. Players team up with animated characters to save storytellers from a villain, completing activities like naming pictures, identifying sounds in words, and using correct typing techniques. They also practice forming words, phrases, and sentences using a simple word processor.
Development
Development
Read, Write & Type was developed by Presage Software, a company founded in 1986 and based in San Rafael, California.
Reception
Winston-Salem Journal said "Although I haven't found a fresh test subject for this, I've found so much -from this company valuable and loved by kids that I can recommend the program".
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- 1.Presage Products - Read, Write & Type. Presage Software.
- 2.Vexor the Virus spreads education. Pensacola News Journal. 15. October 9, 1995.
- 3.Holzberg, Carol. Read, Write & Type. Booklist. April 1, 1996.
- 4.The Company. Presage Software.
- 5.Read, Write & Type 9x. Macworld. August 2003.
- 6.Akin, Jim. The two dads. MacUser. December 1996.
- 7.Reader Rabbit. Quad-City Times. 40. March 24, 1996.
- 8.McWilliams, Peter. New software allows kids to while away the hours with Zoop or write a paper. Winston-Salem Journal. 18. December 4, 1995.
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