Arcademic Game Descriptions

Coconut Vowels

Type: Single-player
Content: Vowels
NCTM Standards Strand: Spell simple words using developing phonetic knowledge, sounds of the alphabet, and simple consonant/vowel patterns.

Coconut Vowels provides practice in spelling. Coconuts with words in them fall to the beach. The student must match missing letters to the correct word coconut. If a coconut reaches the surfboard before you blast it, your stage will end. Hits and misses are recorded at the bottom of the screen.

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System Requirements:
OS: Windows, MAC
Recent Internet Browser: IE, Firefox, Safari
Flash Player

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