Str.at.e.s. 8: Riddle Wrangler!

Four students - Max, Sara, Jessica, and Tony - are working on a special communications project involving Str.at.e.s., a futuristic application that can access any time or place in the past, present, or future. One afternoon, Str.at.e.s. malfuntions, and each character is transported back in time. Your child helps the characters return to the present as he or she develops reading comprehension and volcabulary skills and finds out about interesting people and events in history.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES:

- Develop reading comprehension skills

- Build vocabulary skills

- Learn about nineteenth - and early twentieth - century people and events

- Learn and use reading strategies to answer questions

- Understand and solve riddles

It was developed and published by Lightspan, which was released in 1998.