The first thing you will come to once you have entered "Oz ~ The Magical Adventure Interactive Storybook" is the options screen. The narrator will guide you through the options and you will select your reading mode and reading level.
Once your selections have been made, click on OK, and the story will begin. You can then use the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen to move through the story, change your options, print a page, choose some stationery or quit.
Reading Mode
Choose which reading mode you want the story to be read in. You can choose 'Read to Me', or 'Read by Myself'.
In 'Read to Me' mode, the story plays through from beginning to end with the narration and the main animations run automatically. Each sentence will highlight as it is read out loud and the pages will turn. In this mode, you will not be able to access the glossary or the clickable animations.
In 'Read by Myself' mode, you are able to interact more with the game. After the main animation has finished, you can move your cursor around the page and click on the sparkles. The sparkles will bring up fun hidden animations that can be clicked on as many times as you like. You can click on the Hummingbird in the top left-hand corner if you want the page to be read again. If you would like a glossary definition, click on the words in red.
Reading Level
Choose which reading level you want the story to be read in. There are three reading levels to choose from
1. Beginner
2. Challenge
3. Advanced
In each of these the story line and the animations are the same, but the content of the text is catered to each particular level. For example, the choice of words and the number of sentences becomes slightly more complicated the harder the level is.
The level choice will also affect the glossary definitions as there are different glossary words of varying difficulties for each level.
