- Platform: Windows Vista / 7 / 2000 / XP, Macintosh, Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
- Media: DVD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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- An adventure that is fun and is educational
- 4 levels of difficulty
- Colorful and endearing characters
- New game, new story, new activities
- Feature-film quality animation
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Product Description
Amazon.ca Product Description
Mia Reading is an interactive adventure where children recognize words and their spelling, add vocabulary, learn grammar, practice phonics and rhymes. For children from 5 to 9 years old. Mia is back with a fabulous adventure. Developed by an award-winning team, Mia Reading is designed to spark children's interest and stir their imagination in every minute of play. This is what separates the Mia Adventure series from any other children's software, a successful mix of entertainment and quality education. The Mia Adventure series is fresh, unique and inspirational. Each adventure puts your child in full control, free to lead Mia on an exciting escapade. With exceptional 3D graphics and story-based game-play format, Mia makes learning fun! The sixth installment in the popular Mia series comes on a DVD-ROM for an even better graphic quality. The Mia series has won over 130 awards including Best e-learning program from the United Nations, Excellence in Educational Publishing – AEP (USA); Winner – Early Elementary Foreign Language – Bessie Awards (USA); Gold Award – Parents' Choice (USA) and many more. Story Mia lives in a charming Victorian house where her family has lived for generations. The house has recently been invaded by pests. Stinking, noisy, uncivilized, these pests are sure to be seen by humans. The Bugaboos must go and Mia needs help! Mia Reading has been designed to support the school's curriculum from kindergarten to grade three, and includes 12 exciting reading and writing skills activities each with four levels of difficulty.
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3.2 out of 5 stars (6 customer reviews)
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
my girls love Mia, July 18 2008
By mom2serena - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mia Reading ¿ The Bugaboo Bugs DVD-ROM (DVD-ROM)
This is our first Mia purchase and I'm VERY happy with it. My oldest is 5 yrs old and loves it. She starts kindergarten in the fall. There are 2 sections of the software. One section is games, the other is an 'adventure' story where you collect items and play all the same games as in the game section. There are a variety of 'games' to play each a bit more challenging than the last. You can also choose a difficulty level from 1-4 for each game. My oldest is on the easiest setting now and can do about half of the games and loves the challenge of the ones she hasn't accomplished yet. My 3 year old daughter is also having fun moving thru the adventure half of the software. I expect this to keep my girls entertained for quite awhile.And as the previous poster mentioned, Mia saying 'OK' does become annoying.
9 of 11 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Not educational, Sep 12 2009
By Wanderer - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mia Reading ¿ The Bugaboo Bugs DVD-ROM (DVD-ROM)
So, with a product called "Reading," I assumed -- although you know what they say happens when you assume -- that there was some educational component to this program. There isn't. The "adventure" is nothing more than an addictive computer game. The children have to look for items, like a rubber band, or kill bugs with the bubble blaster. (Not that I am opposed to killing bugs, but I am not certain that I approve of killing bugs that are drawn to look like little people. Is it really meant to train the child to work up to Halo?) Sure, mixed in there are some mildly educational games, but they don't really teach anything. There is nothing coherent to the games' approach to make them valuable as an educational tool. For example, there are some fill in the missing letters. Okay, but the easy level is too easy for my child in kindergarten, yet the advanced level requires the child to be reading. The irony is that if he were reading, the game would be too easy. It doesn't teach, but only goes over material that a child would have had to have known to complete.I thought that this might be an okay activity on a weekend morning for our son when we would want to sleep in. I am honestly not certain, if I am going to continue to allow him to play. It lacks true educational value, which is what I look for in games for my child.
That said, the graphics are awesome, although this is the one aspect that my son couldn't care about.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Granny Mia!!!, Feb 28 2008
By Maryann Young "Granny" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Mia Reading ¿ The Bugaboo Bugs DVD-ROM (DVD-ROM)
The animation in the product is wonderful. It is entertaining as well as educational. The only thing that drives ME crazy is Mia's response of "OK" after each correct choice. But, the little ones love Mia and so do I. Can hardly wait to get the others in this series. Granny
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