Dragon Park

Game Summary:
Dragon Park consists of five phases, or levels of difficulty, that 
flow into each other as your child completes each phase 
successfully. Your child is currently in the last phase.

Like its counterpart game, Dragon Park has a final phase that 
teaches children more than five hundred vocabulary words-
words that, when mastered, will complete the Storybook and save 
the Imagination Space Station. The main difference between the 
two games-other than the characters presented and the screen 
configurations--is that the final phase of Dragon Park consists of 
a more difficult operation--a sorting process--that represents the 
most challenging component of all Electric Reading Land 
activities. This game, therefore, will feel most comfortable to 
older emerging readers-six- to seven-year-olds.

Let's Play:

Phase five: 
This phase demands the most concentration of players as all 
screen components-the four boxes as well as all three treasure 
chests-are active throughout.  Each box contains one word. The 
object of this phase is to move each one of these four words into a 
treasure chest. When the sorting is done correctly, the boxes will 
all be empty and then the next group of words appears, as Mick 
the Helpbot says, "Let's do another group."

As each sequence begins, the treasure chests open, one at a time, 
and Mick tells your child the instructions for each chest. You 
cannot begin sorting until you hear the instructions for all three 
chests. Your child may then select one of the chests to fill and 
choose which word(s) must be placed into it. 

Click on one the treasure chests and you hear what must be 
placed inside. Mick may say the onset of the word, the rime of 
the word, or the word itself. Pick which word (or words) belong 
there and click on it. If your child has chosen correctly, the word 
is sounded out and it appears, in red, in the chest, only for a 
moment, and then disappears. If it is no longer visible on the 
screen, your child is choosing correctly. If your child chooses 
incorrectly, Mick repeats the request he gave and the word stays 
in the box.

NOTE: 
As there are four words and only three chests, there will always 
be one chest that contains more than one word.

In some cases, a word could be placed in more than one possible 
treasure chest. Your child is free to make either selection; when 
the word disappears from the screen, your child will know that he 
or she chose one of the possible right answers. 

NOTE: 
To encourage your child's continued play, periodically check 
their progress in the creation of the Storybook. As in phase five of 
Dino Beach, this segment of Dragon Park takes considerably 
longer to play than phases one through four, as it includes more 
than five hundred vocabulary words. As your child learns the 
words, sentences are added onto the Storybook. To check the 
story’s progress,, click on the spaceship icon to return to the Main 
Hub. Once there, click on the book icon and the Storybook, in 
progress, may be read on the screen. Your child will want to 
know what happens to the animal characters in the Storybook and 
will also want to save the Imagination Space Station, which will 
happen when your child has learned all of the words in phase five 
of Dragon Park. 


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Copyright 1993 D.C. True, Ltd.

