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Can babies learn to read by the age of one?
[mama...]
[what is this?]
[baby... dog... bird... knee...]
They can, they do, and they love to!
Today, more and more parents are realizing that not only
can babies learn to read, but they love to learn!
And this is because the early years are the easiest time to teach reading,
as it is also the most joyful period of learning for your child!
Introducing Little Reader, the most effective system to teach your baby to read!
Suitable for children aged three months and up,
Little Reader will guide your child over the course of one year
from reading single words to complete stories!
The key to Little Reader's effectiveness lies at the heart of the system
a revolutionary software program that brings you and your child an experience
you cannot get with other traditional tools such as DVDs, flash cards, and storybooks.
Taking advantage of computer and Internet technology,
Little Reader makes lessons engaging for your child, and easy for you like never before!
Yet, the Little Reader experience goes far beyond just the computer screen.
Together with the 25 story books specially designed to teach your child to read,
customizable flash cards, and phonics flip cards,
Little Reader gives your child a comprehensive learning experience that
you simply will not find anywhere else.
Little Reader uses the two most effective methods
to teach babies and young children to read
the flash method, and the multisensory method, both developed by experts
in the field of early childhood education and repeatedly shown to work with children
as young as a few months old.
Known also as the right-brain method, the flash method
simulates flash cards where words or pictures are flashed rapidly to your child
and absorbed at high speed by the right brain, which remains strong until the age of six.
With Little Reader, you can now achieve the required rapid rate of flashing
with a simple press of a button.
[dog]
[cat]
[horse]
[pig]
[bird]
[duck]
[frog]
[donkey]
[fish]
Little Reader also makes full use of the multisensory method.
[clap]
[can you clap your hands?]
The key to this method is your interaction with your child,
[clap]
for example, by guiding her to clap when seeing the word 'clap'.
[put your hands together!]
Interaction is crucial because your child will not only get visual stimulation,
auditory stimulation, but also kinesthetic stimulation.
The more of your child's senses are involved,
the easier it is for your child to remember the word.
Studies also show that the presence or absence of interaction
will make all the difference as to whether your child learns or not.
Little Reader is designed with PARENTAL INTERACTION in mind,
and by involving YOU in your child's education,
Little Reader helps you become your child's first – and best – teacher!
So what makes Little Reader so special?
One of the most important things to understand, is that the KEY to successful teaching
lies in whether you can ENGAGE your child's attention not just for one day,
two weeks, or three months, but CONTINUOUSLY.
One way Little Reader helps you make lessons more engaging is by giving you
immense variety.
For example, you will notice that every time you play back the same word,
it will be played back using different font colors, font styles, pictures, audio
and video!
With other media, your child may be attentive in the beginning,
but after a while, when she sees the same thing over and over again,
it may become increasingly challenging to maintain her attention.
With Little Reader, each word typically comes with three different pronunciations,
five pictures, one to three videos, and two different interaction phrases,
so instead of being bored by the same pictures and sounds each time,
the variety in lessons will hold your child's attention much better,
even keeping her guessing what's going to show up next!
Variety is also important because it enables you to teach the full and comprehensive
meaning of the word.
By showing only a picture of a poodle when teaching the word 'dog',
your child may think that other types of dogs which look different are not dogs.
Similarly, it is important to vary the words,
because you teach your child that it's neither the color nor the font that is important,
and that even the casing may change, but they are all the same word.
Another way in which Little Reader engages your child's attention is
by letting you PERSONALIZE the content.
For example, one of the first things you can do is to go to the 'Family' Category,
and add personal pictures for Mommy and Daddy, as well as add your child's name
along with your child's pictures!
You can also do that with other family members like Grandpa and Grandma, and even
your pet!
If you wish, you can even customize the content that comes with Little Reader!
For example,
instead of using the preinstalled pictures and sounds that come with the word "nose",
you could use pictures taken of the noses of different family members!
Now when you teach the word "nose",
your child will see pictures of Mommy's nose, Daddy's nose, and even her own nose,
making lessons more personal and meaningful.
This is a feature that can only be easily done with a computer-based platform and
not with other traditional media.
Now, you can choose to personalize almost all the lessons which come with Little Reader,
and you can even add words that are particular to your culture, language, or country.
However, all of this is totally optional!
Little Reader gives you the power and flexibility to make lessons even more engaging for
your child,
yet this is completely at your own leisure, and as it suits you.
Little Reader comes complete with an easy-to-use and comprehensive one-year curriculum.
Throughout the year, your child will see 3,000 words in 180 categories
and enjoy over 3,000 pictures, 6,000 sound files and 460 videos.
As new words are introduced and old words replaced each day,
your child's reading abilities will progress from single words to couplets,
phrases, sentences, and finally, complete stories.
And not only will your child learn to recognize the words provided in the curriculum,
our special Pattern Phonics system will help her understand the rules of phonics
intuitively and in the most natural way possible,
enabling her to also sound out words she has never seen before.
All it takes is just 3-5 minutes per lesson, twice a day, five days a week.
Each time, the only thing you need to do is press PLAY!
Without the need to prepare lessons in advance and
having to wonder about what to play next,
you can simply take more time to enjoy the learning process with your child!
So what else makes Little Reader so special?
With most other products,
what you get will never be more than what it was on the day that you bought it.
But with Little Reader,
what you get is a 'living' product that grows with your child and is ever-expanding!
Even as you finish your 12 months' worth of lessons,
you can still continue to teach your child with Little Reader by
going to the BrillKids Forum and downloading LITERALLY THOUSANDS more content files!
The BrillKids Forum is the world's largest early learning online community
with over 50,000 members
many of whom create and share Little Reader content with other members for free!
From within Little Reader itself,
you can access thousands of content files in over 27 subject categories
and in more than two dozen different languages!
With new content being created and added almost every day,
you can tailor the lessons you show to suit your child's current interests,
abilities, and needs
expanding your content library is as simple as pressing the "download" button
and letting Little Reader import it into your library automatically.
Need someone to hold your hand as you go through your teaching adventure?
The BrillKids team and the entire BrillKids community are here to support you!
The BrillKids website offers many intuitive levels of support.
The help desk, downloadable eBooks, manuals, video tutorials and customer support desk
are all there to help guide you on your way to maximizing your use of Little Reader
and to troubleshoot any problems you may encounter.
Most importantly, advice need not only come from BrillKids!
Join in the fun and spirit of the BrillKids community and chat with thousands of members
on all sorts of early learning topics. Whether you need tips on how to use Little Reader,
or simply wish to learn from the experiences of other parents
who are also teaching their children,
participate in the very active discussion forum and get advice from other members
tailored to your specific situation.
So get your child started with Little Reader, and give your child a love of reading!
Brought to you by BrillKids.