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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Discover the fun of spelling with Rayman !

The hugely popular Rayman is back in Rayman Dictations : 4 titles to build spelling skills through dictation. His friend, Tim7, has recorded the story of his adventures on Amnesia Island on a strange machine, the Televox. The trouble starts when Clara the witch finds the Televox has broken! Oh no, all the text and images have been erased leaving only the sounds. The inhabitants of Amnesia Island need help. This is a mission for Rayman.

The premise behind Rayman Dictations is to encourage children to improve their spelling, grammar and typing. The appealing story and fun-filled activities create an attractive and motivating environment led by the new 3D Rayman for 8-11 year olds, schools and teachers. 

This innovative approach to learning language rules contains 30 fully interactive dictations including 20 spelling and grammar games, error analysis and fully customised exercises. Rayman Dictations is specifically designed to accommodate children’s individual learning patterns and is seen as a break-through in the educational CD-ROM market. 

Children are given a complete set of learning tools, a glossary of difficult words and clues to remember spelling. A range of 300 questions prepares the child for each corresponding dictation. A further 30 beneficial dictations, from a wide variety of sources including literature texts, poems, newspaper articles and historical documents, help motivate the child to practice their new skills. 

Rayman Dictations is not only based on traditional learning patterns and sound teaching methods, it also incorporate recent research findings on how children learn. 
 
To aid the teaching process, an ‘Adult’s Corner’ advises parents on how to use the CD-ROM efficiently and gives direct access to all activities. Other tools that allow parents and teachers alike to monitor a child’s progress include access to spelling statistics and details on the child’s more frequent errors. 

With this highly detailed and colourful animated environment combined with its enthralling story line, Rayman Dictations is an invaluable and irresistible way to learn language.

Platform, Availability
Rayman Dictations are available for the PC CD-ROM on the French market, and are scheduled to release in winter 1999 on the Italian, Spanish and German markets.