Little Reader is better at engaging your child’s interest than any other system thanks to the power of the software at its heart, making lessons more dynamic and varied than would be possible with any other medium.

For example, each time your child is taught the word “dog”, she will not only see the word in a different color and font, she will also see a different picture, hear a different voice, see a different video, and be prompted to interact in a different way.

Such variety not only helps maintain your child’s attention, it also teaches the meanings of words far more precisely than would be the case using single media.

This degree of playback variety is simply not possible with flash cards or DVDs, which have little or no room for variation in terms of lesson presentation.

Another key feature of Little Reader is the ease with which it is possible to personalize lessons – making learning to read that much more meaningful for your child.

What does personalization mean? Take the word “eyes.” Instead of simply relying on the preinstalled pictures and voices that come with the word, you could use pictures of Mommy’s eyes, Daddy’s eyes, Grandpa’s eyes, and your child’s eyes – and have family members record themselves saying the word “eyes.”

While personalization is optional, the small amount of effort involved will definitely be worth your while. Nothing will engage your child’s interest in reading more than pictures and sounds he recognizes from his own life.

As with playback variety, customization is less easy to achieve with other media platforms.

Little Reader comes equipped with a 12-month curriculum that you can follow daily, simply by pressing the play button! Freed of the tedious task of lesson preparation, you can get on with enjoying the bonding experience of teaching your child.

Over the course of a year, your child will see over 1,000 words in more than 140 subject categories. The same list of words is never shown on two consecutive days. Instead, each category sees one word added, and one retired daily.

A typical word is packaged with 5 pictures, 3 pronunciations, 1-2 videos, and 2 picture-commentary audio files. These media files are rotated so that the same word plays back differently each time.

Comprehensive in its scope and design, our curriculum will guide your child in a systematic and progressive fashion: from sight-reading single words, to sounding out groups of words, to reading complete stories – all within 12 months.

All that is needed from you is the commitment to teach your child for 10 minutes once or twice a day, not including weekends.

Personalizing your lessons is made easy with Little Reader’s intuitive interface, and built-in tools such as the Picture Editor and the Easy Voice Recorder, which allows you to record and edit images and pronunciations simply and conveniently.

Little Reader is brought to you by BrillKids – home to the early learning information portal BrillBaby.com, as well as the world’s most active early learning community, at BrillKids.com.

With over 20,000 members from all over the world, the BrillKids community is here to support you every step of the way as you embark on this exciting journey with your child.

Thanks to the forum as well as our online help desk and video tutorials, help is only a click away. Should you need to contact our efficient customer support team, send us an email, and we'll be sure to respond to you within 24 hours (72 hours if on a weekend.)

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Meanwhile, if you’re looking for high-quality foreign language content, you’ve come to the right place. With Little Reader, you can download content created by native speakers in over two dozen languages!

The BrillKids online library houses over 2,500 reading lessons in 27 subject categories and more than two dozen languages. Most are available for free, and all can be easily imported into your Little Reader.

Although whole-word reading is useful and appropriate for babies and toddlers, being able to decode words phonetically is critical to long-term reading success.

Traditional phonics methods require the vocalization of letter sounds and are generally only suitable for children aged 3 and above. With Little Reader’s unique Pattern PhonicsTM system, your child will not only be able to start learning phonics as a baby, but she will do so in the most natural and intuitive way possible.

In much the same way as babies unconsciously absorb, and intuitively decipher, speech patterns, they are also capable of absorbing and deciphering word patterns. Pattern Phonics™ works by showing words in patterns that facilitate and accelerate a child’s natural ability to decode written language.