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Clifford the Big Red Dog series

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Phonics

Step right up! There's a carnival in town starring Clifford the Big Red Dog. In CLIFFORD PHONICS, early readers join Clifford and his friends as they attend the Birdwell Island Carnival, a special carnival…

30 September 2003

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Phonics is a video game developed by Scholastic, released 30 September 2003 on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What Clifford the Big Red Dog: Phonics is

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Phonics was developed by Scholastic and released in 2003. It is available on Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).

The premise, in the publisher's words

Step right up! There's a carnival in town starring Clifford the Big Red Dog. In CLIFFORD PHONICS, early readers join Clifford and his friends as they attend the Birdwell Island Carnival, a special carnival full of booths and rides that teach reading. Youngsters play the activities to win "prizes" to use in decorating a float for the culminating Carnival Parade. In one of the six major activities, the Ferris wheel isn't working because it has run out of power -- "word power" that is. Players motorize it by identifying words in specific word families. Other activities cover letter and sound recognition, rhyming, sentence completion, word-object association, and sight word matching. These…
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How it plays

Its themes are educational.

Where it sits in the Clifford the Big Red Dog series

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Phonics is the third of 3 entries we hold in the Clifford the Big Red Dog series. It arrived 2 years after Clifford the Big Red Dog: Learning Activities. It is the most recent released entry in the series.

See all 3 Clifford the Big Red Dog games in release order →

What it launched against

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Phonics launched on 30 September 2003, within three weeks of Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Jak II, SSX 3 and Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy.

Released around the same time: Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne, Jak II, SSX 3, Star Wars: Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy.

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When did Clifford the Big Red Dog: Phonics come out?
Clifford the Big Red Dog: Phonics was released on 30 September 2003 for Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).