11 years ago I was in the classroom teaching Kindergarten and first grade. At that time I had few children that started school knowing how to read. Even a few that had little knowledge of letter and sound recognition. That’s what we taught at that level, phonics, the basics to reading. As my children have gone through the educational system in the past decade, I have found that those basics are starting in preschool…even at home. More and more kids are entering Kinder with a lot more skills than before. Honestly, I think learning toys like the VTech Bugsby Reading System can be thanked for giving kids the encouragement and tools to learn to read at an earlier age.
Every touch of our magical pen brings reading to life!
Join Bugsby the Book Worm on a magical reading adventure! Your children will love reading along and interacting with their favorite characters as they build early reading skills. Kids will fall in love with reading as they have fun listening to stories read aloud by their new reading pal, Bugsby. Children build reading skills through play as Bugbsy takes them through reading comprehension, phonics, sentence structure, word recognition and more. Kid friendly in design, the Bugsby Reading System includes software cartridge with every story book title – no additional downloads required!
Our Take: My 3 year old daughter started preschool this year and is becoming more and more confident recognizing letters. I think since we started using the Bugsby, her confidence has tripled and she is eager to get the books in her hands and attack some of the words on the page. Slowly we are identifying letters and words that are matching the pictures in the book and I see her becoming more independent on initiating reading time during the day. The pen is fun to use for her, fits her hand nicely, and I like that there is a volume button on it, especially when we’re in the car! Each book has colorful photos and the words/lettering are in a perfect font for my daughter’s little fingers as she points out recognizable letters. I’m amazed at the technology of the Bugsby and that at such a early age of 3 my daughter show so many signs of interest in learning to read!
Recommended for children aged 3-7, the Bugsby Reading System sells for $29.99 and can be found at stores such as Target, WalMart, KMart, Sears and Toys ‘R’ Us. The accompanying books can be found at those stores as well and have popular titles and characters that kids will recognize from Television. Dora the Explorer, Wonder Pets, Wubzy, and Max and Ruby to name a few, those books that come with a software cartridge run for $12.99 each.
I was sent the Bugsby Reading System free of charge in exchange for an honest review. The opinions were our tried-and-true experience and were not influenced by any source. I was not compensated in any way.
