## Description
_The Busy World of Richard Scarry: Best Reading Program Ever_ is an
educational game for children aged three to six and teaches reading, writing
and phonics for the English language. Huckle the cat and Lowly the worm meet
Mr. Fixit the fox at the start of the game. He has built a storymobile to hold
stories about Busytown, but has forgotten the stories. The duo decides to walk
around the town and talk to people to collect stories. Each location in the
game has different mini-games tied to skills. After completing an activity a
book appears at home. It can then be clicked to read or listen along to the
story about that location.
The game contains five locations (farm, campground, beach, supermarket and
school) and each one has three phonics activities, word play, and a find and
click game. It also contains fifteen animated stories that can be read along.
There is a story writer and parents can use an online progress report, info
and suggestions. Skills include matching words to pictures and matching
letters to sound and vocabulary, identifying rhyming words, sequencing events,
recognizing upper and lower case letters, identifying beginning sounds,
finding objects in a picture, observing details, identifying end sounds,
forming categories, spelling three letter words, recognizing the alphabet,
listening to stories and writing stories.