{"id":186424,"date":"2010-01-16T01:09:33","date_gmt":"2010-01-16T06:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/?p=138900"},"modified":"2010-01-16T01:09:33","modified_gmt":"2010-01-16T06:09:33","slug":"have-your-kids-used-the-reading-pen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/186424","title":{"rendered":"Have Your Kids Used the Reading Pen?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>&#8220;My 4-year old just loves it,&#8221;<\/em> a young mom remarked to me.\u00a0<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_138901\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-138901\" src=\"http:\/\/images1.blisstree.com\/files\/2010\/01\/139391_a_boy_a_girl_and_a_book.jpg\" alt=\"Fascination of reading image: sxc.hu\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fascination of reading image: sxc.hu<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>She was describing the <a title=\"LeapFrog Pen\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/LeapFrog%C2%AE-Tag-Reading-System-16\/dp\/B00134O7QU\">LeapFrog Tag Reading System<\/a>, whereby you download specific books into a pen with a camera on the end.\u00a0 Then as you or your child scans the words in the book, the pen will read to the child.\u00a0 She said her 7-year old enjoys this, too, and can do his 20-minute reading assignment by first listening to the pen read the book, then reading it himself.<\/p>\n<p>Although this doesn&#8217;t take the place of someone reading to the child for a family reading session.\u00a0 However, the LeapFrog Tag can occupy the child when mom or dad or grandma are busy.\u00a0 This system also carries audio books one step forward, for the child is learning to recognize words and their sounds as he\/she listens.\u00a0 They also can read together.<\/p>\n<p>What else will they think of in our electronic world?\u00a0 These don&#8217;t take the place of reading to oneself or being read to by a live person.\u00a0 However, it&#8217;s another way to encourage a love of reading in youngsters.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Have you used this system for your youngsters?<\/strong>\u00a0 Are there other electronic reading systems that you&#8217;ve found helpful.\u00a0 The young mom I talked with was excited about an electronic method to encourage and aid her children in the love of reading.<\/p>\n<p>Post from: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\">Blisstree<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blisstree.com\/articles\/have-your-kids-used-the-reading-pen\/\">Have Your Kids Used the Reading Pen?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;My 4-year old just loves it,&#8221; a young mom remarked to me.\u00a0 Fascination of reading image: sxc.hu She was describing the LeapFrog Tag Reading System, whereby you download specific books into a pen with a camera on the end.\u00a0 Then as you or your child scans the words in the book, the pen will read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":144,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/144"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186424"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186424\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}