In this section, you can find descriptions and educational goals for all of the online games featured on the SUPER WHY Web Site. Super Why, Alpha Pig, Wonder Red and Princess Presto bring you and your child (Super You) engaging interactive games that extend the series curriculum to help him practice his reading skills in a powerful way.
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Your child can practice her alphabet skills while helping Alpha Pig protect his house from the Big Bad Wolf! Alpha Pig hosts the game and talks to your child. With each letter of the alphabet your child correctly finds, an alpha-brick fills the hole in the house. When your child chooses the wrong letter, the Big Bad Wolf gets closer to the house, in a comical way! Once she has found all twenty-six letters, your child is rewarded with a big thumb's up from Alpha Pig for stopping the Big Bad Wolf! There are three different levels of difficulty, beginning with all of the capital letters (Easy), followed by all of the lower case letters (Medium), and finishing with a mix of capital letters and lower case letters (Hard).
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Your child can help Wonder Red skate through the woods to Grandma's house while rhyming with common word families along the way. Wonder Red hosts this side-scrolling adventure game and talks to your child. At the start of each level, Wonder Red tells your child a word and its corresponding word family (ie. "BALL" is an "ALL" word). Using the mouse, your child controls where Red skates on the path to collect all of the rhyming words. As the correct words are collected (ie. "CALL," "TALL," "HALL"), they appear on the left side of the screen. When your child rolls over the wrong word, Red will tell him that the two words do not sound alike. After completing three rounds, Wonder Red safely makes it through the woods to Grandma's house with a full basket of fruit!
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Your child can create her own customized superhero with Princess Presto while practicing her letter sounds to spell words! Princess hosts the game and talks to your child. She must listen to the common letter sound said by Princess Presto and then click on the letter that makes it. When a word is fully spelled, your child gets to choose a new item to dress her superhero. Each time she plays, your child will spell four words to earn a total of four items, including a costume, a cape, mask, and a super chest icon. At the end of the game, your child can name her superhero, print a special poster and email her creation to friends and family!
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Your child can fly into a book to help Super Why rescue Rapunzel from her tower while practicing reading comprehension skills. Super Why hosts the game and talks to your child. In the first part of the game, your child controls Super Why as he flies through the sky. Your child must collect all of the words to fill in blanks in the sentence. When there is one blank left, your child makes it to the next game screen. Here, he must choose the final word from three choices, just like Super Why does on the show. Once your child chooses a word to finish the sentence, he will then see an animation of the sentence he has created. Depending on which words he chooses, the sentence could be silly or help save the day! The game has three levels that form a story. Each level includes an introduction, the flying game to collect the words and the sentence completion game. In the end, your child successfully rescues Rapunzel from her tower and saves the day!
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Your child can practice her alphabet, rhyming, spelling and reading comprehension skills by taking the Super Readers challenge! This game area includes four mini-games that focus in on each character's specific literacy skill. This is achieved by using simple game mechanics of clicking on letters, pictures, words and sentences. All of these games also use the voices of the Super Readers to guide your child through each challenge. These mini-games include Alpha Pig's Alphabet Challenge, Wonder Red's Words Challenge, Princess Presto's Spelling Challenge and Super Why's Reading Challenge. All games are housed in the Super Duper Computer, which your child can personalize by choosing its color. After completing a challenge, your child will earn a super letter. Once she has completed enough challenges to complete a word, she will earn images from the show in her Super Duper Computer! Each challenge also measures your child's accuracy, which is illustrated by the number of gold stars earned in each challenge box. When your child earns five stars, she will earn a Super Readers Challenge certificate that she can print and color! Another feature of this area is that as long as your child uses the same computer, her progress will be stored for future SUPER WHY site visits. Using a simple Internet "cookie," your child's username, Super Duper Computer color, number of gold stars per challenge, super letters, super story words and images she earned will all still be there. This enables her to practice different skills over time. Practice = learning.
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Your child can explore the magical world of Storybrook Village with Whyatt as his guide. With the click of the mouse, your child can zoom in on a specific location in Storybrook Village, read the name of the location and hear the inside scoop on each place as told by Whyatt.
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In Alpha Pig�s Paint by Letters, your child can practice matching all 26 letters of the alphabet while helping Alpha Pig color 9 Super Reader themed pictures. In �Paint by Letter� mode, your child can choose between three different levels of difficulty, beginning with uppercase letter matching (Easy), followed by lower case letter matching (Medium), and finishing with uppercase and lowercase matching. In �Free Paint� mode, your child can color the same coloring pages as she pleases using either a paint brush or crayons. When your child has finished her picture, she can print her artwork in full color.
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Your child can sing and dance along with Wonder Red while practicing common word families. Each musical level features a different word family your child will practice with (such as the "-ALL" family). Wonder Red appears dancing in center screen with her Wonder Words Basket on the ground. As the music starts playing, Wonder Red dances and words float out of her basket into the air. Your child is asked to click on the words that belong to the target word family (shown on screen) by clicking on these words as they float by. Each time your child clicks on a correct word, Wonder Red spins and strikes a pose and the correct word highlights. If your child clicks on a wrong word, Wonder Red tells your child why the chosen word does not sound like the word family she's looking for. After completing each of the three rounds, Wonder Red encourages your child to get up and dance as she sings about the featured word family, as the words are shown above her head.
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Your child can personalize his very own Golden Crown to print and wear while practicing common letter sounds, digraphs and blends to spell words! Your child begins by choosing a crown to assemble (6 different crown choices). The crowns each have 4 prongs - one for each level. Each prong is missing a jewel. In each level, your child will have an opportunity to earn one gem by finding the letter(s) that makes a sound that will spell a word. When each word is spelled, Princess Presto will tap her wand and a gem of the word will appear. At the end of the final level, your child will have a complete crown with 4 unique jewels. Words will be different each time so your child will create a crown with different jewels every time he plays. Your child can enter his name, which will appear on the crown, and then print it out! The game also offers two different modes: spell with uppercase letters (Easy); spell with lowercase letters (Hard).
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Your child can choose one of four classic fairytales (The Three Little Pigs, Little Red Riding Hood,The Princess and the Pea or Jack and the Beanstalk) and make it her own using the power to read! In this activity based game, each classic story is reduced to four sentences, one for each page of a book. Each page contains an illustration of the action occurring in the sentence; but, within each sentence there is one word your child may change (� la Mad Libs) to create her own tale. Yur child will see her choices realized before her very eyes in an animated page of the pop up, styled book. Your child gets to experience the Super Why game from the TV show first hand, with a Why Writer cursor and an animated Why Board, to zap words into a sentence and change stories! Once your child has completed her story, she can read the story online, print it or email the story to a friend or family member. Your child's name will also appear on the cover of her newly created storybook. This game offers an easy mode where Super Why reads the sentences out loud, and a hard mode where your child must read on her own.
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Super Why has an important message for everyone in Storybrook Village, but he needs your child's help to find Super Letters in the sky that will form the super message. In this side-scrolling adventure game, your child navigates his Why Flyer through the Storybrook Village skyline. In addition to finding Super Letters, your child can fly over special Why Writer, Super Duper Computer and Book coins to see fun Why Flyer animations and to earn super points. Also, your child must keep his eyes out for golden �Super Why Books� that if collected, will launch the Why Flyer into a hidden bonus level above the clouds of Storybrook Village. Each level includes 3-7 Super Letters your child must find. Each time your child picks up a Super Letter, it will appear in a Super Duper Computer icon represented on the bottom of the screen. Super Why will identify the letter for your child and then your child will see it represented in the word being formed. Once your child has collected the last Super Letter in the level, Super Why will read each letter and say the word out loud. Older children will have the opportunity to decipher what the message could be as letters and words are added to the banner, while younger children can see how letters form words, which in turn forms a sentence that has meaning. Complete all of the levels (3-5) and all of the words will form the Super Banner Message. As a final payoff, Super Why flies the flyer over Storybrook Village with the special message for all to see and read.
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With this classic sticker book type activity, your child and family members can create a personalized Super Why Bookmark, Greeting Card or Poster. Super Stuff Design Center includes character and themed stickers, special backgrounds and sayings that your child can choose to make her own special design. Your child begins by selecting which type of item she�d like to create and personalize. The activity uses a simple, �click, stick, drag and drop" functionality and you have the ability to increase or decrease the size of each element as well as the ability to move images around at your choosing. When your child has completed her special design, she can print it out in full color or email it to a friend or family member!
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Your child can practice identifying letters in the alphabet, letter sounds, rhyming word families and opposite words in these four Super Why character themed �BINGO� games. In game, your child can practice uppercase (easy), lowercase (medium) and mixed case letters (hard). In game, your child can practice with over twenty different word families. In game, your child can practice common letter sounds with uppercase (easy), lowercase (medium) and mixed case letters (hard). In game, your child can practice matching opposite word pairs. In all 4 games, your child begins with a classic bingo board. The tiles of the board either include words or letters. As a SuperReader calls out a letter or word and correct tiles are selected by your child, the tiles will disappear from the board to reveal a fun picture that your child can print. Each time your child visits, he will uncover a different picture and will practice a variety of letters with Alpha Pig, letter sounds with Princes Presto, rhyming words with Wonder Red or opposite words with Super Why!
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Your child can literally jump into the popular SUPER WHY episode, Comic Book: Attack of the Eraser, to stop the mischievous Eraser from erasing words Reader Valley in this interactive comic book adventure game. In each interactive comic book page, Super Why will read along with your child as the words of the comic book highlight. Your child will be asked to click on elements within the comic book to help keep the story moving. As your child continues through the game helping each Super Reader fix Reader Valley, The Eraser (and your child) learn an important message and get to play with the alphabet, spelling and reading. Your then child gets to help The Eraser fix mistakes in Reader Valley and ends with a Hip Hip Hurray dance with the Super Readers!
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