| Reader Rabbit 3 | |
|---|---|
 Cover art for Reader Rabbit 3 Deluxe! | |
| Developer(s) | The Learning Company |
| Publisher(s) | The Learning Company |
| Platform(s) | Original: DOS Deluxe: Windows, Macintosh |
| Release | 1993 (Original) September 1994 (Deluxe) [1] |
| Genre(s) | Educational |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
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The game sees series protagonist Reader Rabbit join the Daily Skywriter, the daily newspaper for his home town Wordville. He has to identify the right information to put into his stories. [2] The game was designed to build critical reading skills, [3] by applying speech rules to a real-world scenario. [4]
Reader Rabbit 3 is made up of five different activities that teach player's the structure of the English language. The following activities are:
The game contains over 200 different news stories to work from. [5] The Deluxe version contains 20 different digitized voices that add to the dramatization to the game. [2]
PC Mag reviewer Charles Taft wrote that the game was "fun to play", while praising its replayability (four levels of difficulty and multiple stories), as well as its "delightful" animations. [6] The game was regarded as a winner in the book "Only the Best: The Annual Guide to the Highest-Rated Educational Software/Multimedia". [7]
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