What is great about this item:
It has an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars!
- The amazing touch technology of the Tag Reading System encourages a child’s love of reading as words talk, pictures sing and stories live out loud
- The Tag library includes over 20 books and games featuring characters from TV, movies and classic tales
- Tag storybooks and learning activities
- Children learn to read through an exciting and interactive experience in which they can also earn online rewards
- Parents can connect the Tag Reader to the online LeapFrog
- Help children build vocabulary and reading skills such as word recognition, reading comprehension and phonics skills
- Learning Path to see what their child is learning, and explore ways to expand their child’s learning journey
Product Description
Introducing Tag Reading System, the revolutionary touch reading system that brings reading to life like never before. Tag engages children to make reading a rich, fulfilling experience. Children simply touch the Tag Reader (which looks like an electronic pen) to the book’s pages, and words talk, characters sing and stories fly off the pages. With a huge library of hardcover books and games including favorite TV, movie and classic tales, each Tag Book allows children… More >>
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What is great about this item:
It has an average rating of 4.5 out of 5 stars!
The amazing touch technology of the Tag Reading System encour…
5 replies on “LeapFrog® Tag Reading System”
There was an article about this toy before it came out in Wired Magazine. It basically interviewed the inventor and peaked my curiosity. So I purchased it. It is an impressive device by any modern day standards. Basically it’s a camera that recognizes words and images on specialized paper (the limited series of books that you purchase). Once recognized it plays sound bites or reads the word(s) on the page that you are passing the pen over. It’s smartly designed and a child quickly understands how to operate it.
At first it’s a game and your child will just want to click on everything to hear the sound bites. As time goes by they start exploring the less than obvious features like read back and games. Before you know it you have a totally transfixed kid. It’s great for a long drive and it certainly beats the pants off a dvd. I do believe that this device is positively contributing to my child’s learning. I will say that the books vary in quality. I am writing reviews on most of them ; ) so you can follow along if you wish. To start with get Sponge Bob as it is the best of the bunch followed by Kung Fu Panda or Cars.
Last thought if you’re still with me. This is a wonderful invention. I do recommend it especially for parent’s that are looking for an alternative to TV. I just wish to caution that it is not a substitute for quality reading time with your child so make sure to read to them as well. Overall a great investment.
I hope this review helps.
5 stars
We use this toy for our almost-five-year-old during our daily commutes. It’s wonderful because a) it grabs her attention and delights her during what is usually a very shaky, depressing, hungry time of day, b) it’s not like a video game in which you have a catatonic child in your backseat who refuses to talk–it’s an interactive learning toy that prompts questions and interesting conversations, and c) it’s not obnoxious–no weird beeping, no shooting noises, no electronic “music.” It’s filled with great music that’s real. (The most obnoxious it gets is when she repeatedly clicks on an interesting phrase. Last week we heard “It was spectacular!” five times, before she informed us what she believes “spectacular” means.)
It’s not often when our child thinks that a toy is as awesome as her parents do. But I can tell this one is definitely on her short list. It’s the only toy that regularly travels from the car to the living room, to the kitchen table, to the bedroom, and then back to the car. That’s right. She *carries* it. She doesn’t ask us to carry it around for her. As far as I’m concerned, that’s the highest praise you can give.
5 stars
The Tag reading system is definitely a step up from the Leappad in terms of playability. However, it has its limitations.
– Unlike the Leapster where multiple users can share each device, each Tag is for a single user (player profile). LeapFrog highly recommends each child have his/her own Tag reader in order to take full advantage of Tag. Therefore, sharing doesn’t work and means more $$$$ spent.
– Using a Tag reader on multiple computers might be cumbersome. I haven’t found a way to “migrate” data easily, for example, in case of OS or PC upgrades. This affects the Rewards and the LEAPFROG Learning Path.
– Can only store 5 audio books at a time on the Reader. So if your child wants a different book besides one of the five, you’ll have to connect to the computer to download/manage it. This will make it difficult for long trips. Memory is cheap, why not have more memory to begin with?
– Must connect to the internet, but then, who doesn’t have internet access these days.
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Some nice points.
– Has a headphone jack!
– USB connectivity was pretty easy, but did seem a bit slow.
– Reader worked fine.
3 stars
We bought this product for my 3 1/2 year old son as something to keep him busy on a long drive from NY to NC. He loves Tag and over a two week period I can’t think of a single day where he didn’t pick it up to play with it. He has three books: Ozzie & Mack, Click Clack Moo (Classic Series) and Cars Tractor Tipping (Activity Series). While he had more fun intially with the Cars & Ozzie and Mack books he has since invested more time into Click Clack Moo and loves it. This is another great product from LeapFrog and I would recommend it to anyone.
My son actually ripped a few pages (because he fell asleep with it one night) and I put some tape over the ripped areas, the pen still reads it just fine.
Great Product!!!!!
5 stars
This is simply an awesome toy for teaching kids to read and have interest in books. My son takes his books with him where ever we go and he will sit for hours reading through the books. He loves the sound effects
However I do see some flaws with the system itself that I hope the company can address
1. the memory of the pen to hold audio’s for the books is very limited. Therefor when my son wants to read all his books, I have to hook the reader up to the computer and swap audios. I think this is very annoying to do.
A simple solution for this would to make a reader pen that accepts memory sticks so you do not have to constantly swap out book audio.
2. I think a rechargeable battery would have been better than to have to constantly change the batteries.
The batteries die pretty quickly in the reader when used as much as my son uses his.
other than that this learning toy is really great. Hopefully an upgraded reader will come out soon
3 stars