Vtech Alphabert User Manual - Page 19

ALPHABERT THE READY TO READ ROBOT™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 11 - WORD SEARCH This activity reinforces spelling skills by asking your child to look for words on the LCD screen within a field of letters. Learning Benefits for Your Child- The Word Search activity allows your child to apply the skills learned in the previous activities to find hidden words. Spelling simple words is the focus of this activity. ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Press the Word Search activity button. You will hear a sound effect followed by "Let's see how many words you can find." Let's see how many words you can find. 2. Next, the friendly robot will say "Press the arrow buttons and the enter button to choose a word." Move the cursor on the LCD screen by pressing the arrow buttons. To select a word, press the enter button on the first and the last letter of that word. 3. A fraction will appear on the right side of the LCD screen. The bottom number of the fraction indicates the total number of words that can be found on the LCD screen for each particular word search. The top number indicates the actual number of words that have already been found. 4. When a hidden word is found, you will hear a sound effect followed by a positive phrase such as "You got it." 5. When all of the hidden words are found, you will hear a positive phrase followed by a rewarding animation. Then the learning toy will identify all of the answers one by one. 18 WORD SEARCH