VTech Phonics Reading Center Parent's Manual To Using page 44

Fundamentals of reading learning toy

PHONICS READING CENTER

ACTIVITY 21 - ADDITION

How Can You Help?

• Show your child the number buttons on the keyboard. Tell him or her to

use them as a number line to help solve the problems.

• Have your child use tangible objects such as pennies, beans, blocks,

etc. to show the numbers being added. This should be helpful in find-

ing the sum or total.

• When your child is playing the activity, encourage him or her to tell a

story problem to go along with the numerical equation.

ACTIVITY 22 - SUBTRACTION

This activity introduces your child to simple subtraction by having him or

her find the difference between two numbers. A picture will accompany

each equation.

Learning Benefits for Your Child -

Learning Benefits for Your Child - The Subtraction activity will introduce

your child to a subtraction equation. Your child will recognize that when you

subtract one number from another, you are finding the difference between

the two numbers.

ACTIVITY INSTRUCTIONS:

1. Press the Subtraction

Subtraction

Subtraction touch sensitive activ-

Subtraction

ity button and you will hear a short tune fol-

lowed by "Let's learn how to subtract."

2. The friendly voice will ask a random ques-

tion such as, "What is three minus one?" The

equation will appear on the LCD screen.

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ACTIVITIES