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Let’s Go!
• Some of the tools on the tool menu are not
available for use in some activities or games.
If a tool is not available for use,you will hear a tone.
• Please keep this manual for future reference,as it contains important
information.
IMPORTANT! If the tip of the stylus and the image on screen do not align,
it’s time to calibrate them! Please refer to page 50, Calibrating the Stylus.
Before inserting a software cartridge, turn power off! Insert the
software cartridge into the software port. Turn power back on.
Software Port
Software Cartridge
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Clifford The Big Red Dog
™
and His Friends
• Login or choose an activity on the screen.
• Touch your choice on the screen with
the stylus.
Activities
Login
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Login!
• Touch the flashing box in the lower
right corner with the stylus.
• Touch New Player in the lower left
corner with the stylus (go on to page 6).
OR
• Touch your name on the screen with
the stylus (go on to page 10).
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• Choose upper or lower case letters
and a color for your name.
• Touch the abc button on the screen
with the stylus to choose upper case
letters; touch again for lower case letters.
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• Touch the color palette on the screen
with the stylus.
• Touch a color on the screen with the stylus.
• Touch the smiley button on the screen
with the stylus when you’re done!
Smiley Button
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• Touch each letter of your name on the
keyboard with the stylus.
• Touch the smiley button on the screen
with the stylus when you’re done!
• Choose a picture to go with your name.
• Touch the arrows on the screen with the
stylus to scroll through choices.
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• If you’re already logged in, touch your
name on the screen with the stylus.
• When you find a picture that you like,
touch your choice on the screen with
the stylus.
• Touch the smiley button on the screen
with the stylus when you’re done!
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Choose a Game or Activity!
Choose a game or activity from the Home Screen:
Vowels, Rhyming, Drawing, Consonants, Blends and Disco Dog.
Drawing
Vowels
Rhyming
Disco Dog
Consonants
Blends
Hint: Go to page 45 for information on Top Scores;page 46 for information
about Progress Reports and page 49 for information on how to Log Out!
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Vowels
Object: Answer the questions correctly to find clues and the lost animal!
• Choose a level:
Long vowel sounds
Short vowel sounds
Long and short vowel sounds
• Touch your choice on the screen
with the stylus.
• Choose a place to find the lost animal:
Beach, Forest or County Fair.Touch your
choice (the blinking X) on the screen with
the stylus.
County Fair
Beach
Forest
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• Move Clifford from side to side to pick up
points or flashing clues (objects blink on
the screen).
- Life preservers at the beach score points.
- A mitten in the forest scores points.
- Watermelons at the County Fair
score points.
• Touch Clifford on the screen with the
stylus and drag him to the left or to
the right.
• Look at the screen.
-Your score is in the upper right corner.
-The number of clues found is in the upper
left corner.
-Clifford is on the bottom of the screen.
Clues
Score
Clifford
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• Good job! Clifford picked up points!
• Clifford picked up a flashing clue.
Now,listen carefully to the question.
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• If you answer correctly, you get points!
- 10 points in Level 1
- 20 points in Level 2
- 30 points in Level 3
• Can you guess what animal you are
searching for?
• Find the letter that makes the short or
long vowel sound in the word.
• Touch your vowel choice on the screen
with the stylus.
Hint: If you’d like the word or a vowel sound
repeated, touch with the stylus.
Repeat
Wor d
Vowel Choices
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• If you do not answer correctly,try again.
• Move Clifford from side to side to pick
up more points and flashing clues.
• Touch Clifford on the screen with the
stylus to drag him to the left or right.
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• When you find all six clues or score enough
points, it’s time to find the animal.
• Touch each footprint on the screen with
the stylus to find the lost animal.
• Look – you found the lost animal!
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• Look at your score!
Hint: If you’d like to play another game or
activity, touch Home on the tool menu
with the stylus.