Helping teachers inspire children's love of reading
Thank you for your interest in the LeapFrog® Tag™ Kindergarten Program. Please note that we are no longer accepting applications. We will notify in the coming weeks those applicants who have been chosen to participate, and we will post news about the program at http://www.leapfrog.com/tagkprogram. If you have any questions, please contact us at teachers@leapfrog.com.
With this exciting new program, LeapFrog partners with teachers, families, and schools to inspire the love of reading and learning in children during their critical early years. The centerpiece of our program is the Tag School Reading System, which features a pen-like tool that provides students with an easy-to-use, multisensory, independent reading experience.
Children touch the Tag School Reader to a page of a Tag book to hear an entire story read fluently, hear a page from a story, hear the pronunciation of a single word or, in some cases, a word part, or initiate comprehension exercises in the form of fun games that extend learning and provide immediate feedback.
All of this can be done independently, which is a crucial feature in a busy classroom where it simply is not possible for teachers to give all children one-on-one attention at the same time. For example, if a child reading a Tag book gets stuck on a word, he uses the Tag reader to touch the difficult word and hear the pronunciation, allowing him to continue reading and enjoying the book independently.
In this program, LeapFrog provides teachers with Tag School Reading System kits, including several Tag Readers plus books that focus on phonemic awareness, vocabulary building, comprehension and other key reading skills. Teachers agree to integrate Tag and Tag content into their classroom curriculum and to give feedback on the program.
We believe our Tag School Reading System has great potential to serve as an aide to teachers as they foster children’s love of reading and learning. We want to find out how this tool could be used in classrooms and find ways to maximize potential benefits to teachers and students. Feedback from teachers in the pilot program will help us design future school programs in a way that benefits students, teachers, and parents.
LeapFrog was founded on the principle that learning should be engaging and fun. Our Tag School Reading System and our library of Tag books were created to foster that type of approach.