Every day, aim to spend about five minutes playing lessons to your child.
To do that, go to the Lesson Library, select one of the categories, and press the PLAY button. After each slide, swipe your finger across the screen to the left to advance to the next slide. Press EXIT at the top-right-hand corner at any time to stop.
Take your time, and repeat each word after the pronunciation has finished playing. This will help make the pronunciation of the word clear to your child, and encourage her to say the word too when she is able to.
Move your finger under each word from left to right as you read the word(s). This will indicate to your child the direction of reading, and is a good way to let your child start to understand letter sounds.
During multisensory lessons, interact with your child as much as possible. Let your child not only see the word and hear the word, but also feel the word whenever appropriate. For example, help her clap her hands for the word 'clap', rub her ear for the word 'ear', and let her point to yellow objects for the word 'yellow'. If you can engage the sense of smell and taste too, then even better!
Be lively and have fun during lessons. Give the lesson when your child is in a receptive mood. Never force your child, and never attempt a lesson when your child is tired, sick, or disinterested.
This method works by involving as many of your child's senses as possible. The most important thing to remember here is to interact with your child as much as you can, and engage as many of your child's senses as possible. Let your child not only see the word and hear the word, but also feel the word whenever appropriate.
The lessons are set to be manually forwarded (by swiping the screen from right to left), so take as much time as you need. Where appropriate, run your finger under the words as the words are read, to indicate the direction of reading.
These lessons use the flash method, which involves rapid flashing of words (or pictures) to your child. This method takes advantage of your child's right-brain ability to absorb large quantities of information rapidly. These lessons simulate physical flash cards being flashed rapidly to your child. The lessons here are set to be auto-forwarded so you only need to let your child watch them.
This lesson simulates the flashing of pictures to your child and is useful for consolidating her understanding of the meaning of the words. Like the word flash lessons, the slides are auto-forwarded.
You may read more about the philosophy and principles behind these methods by visiting the "Teaching Babies To Read" section.
Expand your library lessons by downloading more content through our Online Store directly from Little Reader Touch.
You may download our FREE content trials through the app and play lessons directly on your mobile devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android Phone & Tablet).
Full curriculum content downloads is only accessible to licensed Little Reader (PC) users who have purchased the curriculum and iAccess.
Learn about iAccess and how to download the full curriculum lessons?
NOTE: Little Reader Touch is a companion app only to Little Reader (PC). It is not a standalone app. You will have to purchase Little Reader (PC), the curriculum and iAccess to play full lessons on Little Reader Touch.
iAccess is a feature which allows you to download and play your purchased Little Reader Curriculum on your mobile devices (iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, Android Phone & Tablet) through our app, Little Reader Touch.
This feature is only available to licensed users of Little Reader (PC) and requires a purchase from our BrillKids Online Store. To use this feature, you will have to own a Little Reader (PC) license first.
Sign up for a BrillKids Account on here. (If you already have an account, skip to the next step).
Download the Little Reader Touch app from the Apple App Store (for iPad, iPhone or iPod Touch) or from Google Play (for Android devices).
Purchase Little Reader (PC) and the curriculum of your choice from our Online Store and activate the software and content on your computer. (If you have purchased and activated your software, skip to the next step).
Purchase iAccess from our Online Store.
Open the Little Reader Touch app and sign in to your BrillKids Account through "Settings".
Now go to "Download Lessons" and look for your curriculum and download (there should be a green flag saying "iAccess Enabled").
After downloading is complete, the item will appear in your "Lesson Library"
Thanks to our online help desk and video tutorials, help is only a click away.
For iPad, iPhone and iPod touch users, click here. For Android Users, click here.
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.)
Further, Little Reader is brought to you by BrillKids - home to the world's most active early learning community, at BrillKids.com.
With over 60,000 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.
One of the most important things you must remember when teaching your child to read is this:
> Do not focus on achieving results
> Do not force your child if she is not keen to view the lessons.
Focusing on results tends to bring about negative emotions such as anxiety and disappointment, which will be picked up by your child. Similarly, forcing your child is counter-productive and would lead her to associate reading with something negative.
Instead, treat lesson time as a time for bonding with your child. The aim is to expose your child to reading and to have fun while doing so, thereby giving her a joyful and loving experience. Keeping a bonding-focused mindset will make you a much more effective teacher, and you are also likely to find that your child learning to read is a very pleasant side-effect.
Remember, this is not a race! Any exposure to reading that you give to your child during the early years will already be very beneficial.
So just RELAX, and HAVE FUN!
Features available on the Little Reader (PC) software that are not available on Little Reader Touch:
Little Reader PC
Little Reader Touch
You can edit your lessons.
You cannot edit lessons
You can create, edit and customize your lessons.
You cannot create your own lessons
All Little Reader downloads from the BrillKids Online Library (http://library.brillkids.com) are compatible with Little Reader PC.
Little Reader downloads from the BrillKids Online Library (http://library.brillkids.com) are not compatible with Little Reader Touch (specifically because Little Reader PC and Little Reader Touch are both using different operating systems).
You can now play Games lessons.
The Game option for Categories are available in version 2 of the app
The new version 3 curriculum is now available!
The new version 3 English curriculum update is now available (an update to version 2 of the app is required). Updates for other language curricula will be available soon.
