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Dear Parent: You know how important learning is to your child’s future. No matter what path your child chooses in life, learning fundamental skills provides the building blocks for future success. A solid foundation is absolutely essential. That is why VTech® designed the FUNdamentals of Learning Learning™ system. This integrated line of learning products focus on one of three key subject areas – Reading, Math or Language.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ALPHABERT'S ANIMATRONIC EYES LCD SCREEN SPROCKET'S ANIMATRONIC HEAD AND MOUTH VOLUME CONTROL SWITCH ON/OFF BUTTON ARROW BUTTONS SPEAKER ACTIVITY ENTER BUTTONS BUTTON 26 LETTER/OBJECT BUTTONS HELP BUTTON TO BEGIN PLAY 1. To begin play, press the ON/OFF BUTTON or just open the keyboard. You will hear an opening short tune, and Alphabert and Sprocket will say, “Alphabert and Sprocket.” 2.
7. Missing Letters 8. Missing Vowels 9. Beginning & Ending Blends 10. Rhyming Words 11. Word Groups 12. Word Scramble 13. Letter Catch 14. Hangman 15. Memory Challenge 16. Hear A Song TO BEGIN PLAY 3. Press the HELP BUTTON to hear a question repeated and/ or receive the answer to a question. 4. To adjust the volume, slide the VOLUME CONTROL SWITCH to the left for low volume or to the right for high volume. 5. Alphabert’s eyes will turn to his pal Sprocket as he asks questions. 6.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 1 - LEARNING LETTERS Learning Benefits for Your Child - The Learning Letters activity is presented to introduce your child to the 26 letters of the alphabet. Your child may explore at his or her own pace by choosing which letters to press. There are no specific instructions telling your child which button to press.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 2 - UPPERCASE & LOWERCASE LETTERS This activity strengthens uppercase and lowercase skills. Your child will differentiate between lowercase and uppercase letters. He or she will then have the opportunity to pair up the uppercase and lowercase letters. Learning Benefits for Your Child - The Uppercase and Lowercase Letters activity is designed to familiarize your child with uppercase and lowercase letters.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBi¨S™ ACTIVITIES This activity strengthens alphabetical order skills. Your child will recognize that the letters of the alphabet are arranged in a certain order. He or she will have opportunities to tell which letter comes before or after certain letters. Your child will be asked specific questions such as, “What letter comes before the letter B?” He or she will then have the opportunity to look at the letter buttons and find that letter.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 4 - SOUNDS OF WORDS SOUNDS OF WORDS This activity introduces your child to sounding out words. Your child will be able to hear every letter sound within a given word when completing this activity. When your child presses a letter button, he or she will hear Alphabert slowly sound out the word for that given letter. Your child will be able to look at the letters of the word as it is being sounded out.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 5 - WORD CHALLENGE This activity challenges your child to match the words with the pictures. ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Press the Word Challenge activity button. You will hear a sound effect and see Alphabert’s eyes turn to look at Sprocket. Sprocket’s head will turn to look at Alphabert, and then Alphabert will ask “Can you find the object?” 2. A word will be shown in the middle of the LCD screen.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 6 - BEGINNING LETTERS This activity continues to reinforce consonant and vowel sounds. Your child will identify the word with the same beginning letter in the word groups. BEGINNING LETTERS Learning Benefits for Your Child - The Beginning Letters activity is created to help your child to familiarize a variety of words as well as gain confidence in listening for sounds of letters at the begi¡>ing of words. ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS: 1.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 7 - MISSING LETTERS Learning Benefits for Your Child - The Missing Letters activity provides opportunities for your child to spell words correctly. The main objective is for your child to recognize that there is a letter missing from the word. It also teaches your child how to correctly spell some short words. ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Press the Missing Letters activity button.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 8 - MISSING VOWELS MISSING VOWELS This activity strengthens spelling skills by having your child decide which vowel is missing in order to complete a word. Your child will be shown a word with one blank space somewhere within the word. Your child must enter a letter, which is the missing vowel for the word. Learning Benefits for Your Child - The Missing Vowels activity provides a good review of vowel recognition.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES This activity strengthens phonetic skills by exposing your child to blends at the beginning and ending of words. Your child will learn that blends are made by combining two or more consonants to make a new sound (i.e. ST, FT, DR, FR). A word will be shown on the LCD screen. Your child will be asked to decide which letters in the word make up a particular blend. There may be a blend at the beginning of the word as well as the ending of the word.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 10 - RHYMING WORDS This activity challenges your child to make a rhyming word pair. Your child will discover that rhyming words have the same ending sound. He or she will be asked to select the rhyming words from the word groups. Learning Benefits for Your Child -The Rhyming Words activity will help teach your child that certain word endings can be used to make a number of words that rhyme.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 11 - WORD GROUPS This activity increases problem-solving skills by asking your child to decide which object from a group of objects doesn’t belong with the others. Your child will have to decide which one of the three pictures doesn’t belong with the others. ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Press the Word Groups activity button. You will hear a sound effect and see Alphabert’s eyes turn to look at Sprocket.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 12 - WORD SCRAMBLE This activity strengthens spelling skills by asking your child to put scrambled letters in proper sequence to correctly spell a word. Picture clues will be given as your child tries to unscramble short words.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 13 - LETTER CATCH This activity allows your child to practice spelling in a fun manner. He or she will practice spelling short words by catching the letters of words in the correct order. ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Press the Letter Catch activity button. You will hear a sound effect and see Alphabert’s eyes turn to look at Sprocket. Sprocket’s head will turn to Alphabert, and Alphabert will ask, “Can you spell the word?” 2.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 14 - HANGMAN This activity challenges your child to use his or her knowledge of letters and letter sounds in order to play this classic word game. Your child must try to guess a letter to fill in the blanks until the word is completed. HANGMAN Learning Benefits for Your Child - The Hangman activity encourages your child to use his or her knowledge of letters and their sounds in order to spell words correctly. ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS: 1.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 15 - MEMORY CHALLENGE Learning Benefits for Your Child - The Memory Challenge activity allows your child to sharpen his or her listening skills while trying to identify objects in proper sequence. Your child will develop problem-solving strategies as he or she creates a way of remembering the order in which the objects were presented. ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS: 1.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ ACTIVITIES ACTIVITY 16 - HEAR A SONG This activity allows your child to hear various popular children’s melodies. Learning Benefits for Your Child - The Hear A Song activity provides your child with an opportunity to have some fun while developing better listening skills. HEAR A SONG ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS: 1. Press the Hear A Song activity button and you will hear a sound effect followed by “Let’s jam.” 2. Press any letter button to hear a melody.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ BATTERIES BATTERY INSTALLATION 1. Make sure the unit is turned off off. 3. Replace the battery cover and tighten the screw to secure the battery cover. BATTERY NOTICE • Install batteries correctly observing the polarity (+, -) signs to avoid leakage. • Do not mix old and new batteries. • Do not use batteries of different types. • Remove exhausted or new batteries from the learning toy when it will not be used for an extended period of time.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ BATTERIES AUTOMATIC SHUT-OFF AUTOMATIC SHUT-OFF To preserve battery life, the ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ learning toy will turn off automatically after two minutes without input. The unit can be turned on again by pressing the ON/OFF button. NOTE NOTE: If for some reason the program/activity stops working, then please follow these steps: 1. Please turn the unit off. 2. Interrupt the power supply by removing the batteries. 3.
ALPHABERT AND SPROCKET THE READY TO READ ROBOTS™ MAINTENANCE CARE AND MAINTENANCE 1. Keep the unit clean by wiping it with a slightly damp cloth. 2. Keep the unit out of direct sunlight and away from any direct heat source. 3. Remove the batteries when the unit is not in use for an extended period of time. IMPORTANT NOTE: Creating and developing the Fundamentals of Learning product line is accompanied by a responsibility that we at VTECH® take very seriously.
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