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Tag Reader Jr.
Does anyone have this? Is it worth it? DS will be 19 months at Christmas time. Will he be able to use it? Also, is it compatible with the Tag Reader, or will I have to buy a whole new system when he turns 3-4?
Thanks! Toys can be so confusing. (And expensive.)
Re: Tag Reader Jr.
My 2 year old just got it for her birthday. She can use it pretty well by herself. She sat under the kitchen table and "read" a book while I made dinner yesterday.
My 3 1/2 year old also really enjoys it. I don't think you would have to get a new system til at least 4.
One of the sets of books she got was learning vowel sounds, so it's not all baby stuff.
Jake - 1.15.08
Liam - 5.17.11
ditto. We have a reader not sure what brand though. My parents got it for her when she was like a year and a half and she had no interest in it for quite awhile. Even now she rarely uses it. She only recently was into it because the one book was super why and she just started liking super why.
IDK dd just prefers us to read to her. I found it kind of a waste but it was a gift. I definitely feel like she was too young when she got it to really care about it.
We bought the Tag Junior for DD one Christmas, and I don't think it was used more than once. I really do think it's too advanced for the age level, and the reader itself is too bulky.
My nephew had the regular Tag and used it a ton, and I've gone back and forth about getting it for DD this Christmas. My parents want to buy her one "big" gift - so I was considering offering the Tag as an option. I think she'd be much more into it now. I just worry about the money being wasted if it was discarded as easily as the Junior was.
I found this online at Leapfrog: http://leapfrog.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1961/~/tag-reader-and-tag-junior-compatibility
The Tag Reading System pen will work with Tag Junior books, but the Tag Junior is not compatible with Tag Reading System books.
Please Note: That if the Tag Reading System pen is used with the Tag Junior board books, it will read these books the same way the Tag Junior will, a complete page at a time.
As the Tag Junior does not have the functionality to read word by word, the audio files for the board books will read the entire page start to finish when either the Tag Junior or Tag Reader is touched to that page.
I always felt this way too but then she got one and it's something she can sit quietly and do herself. You are right, it does not replace actually reading to your child. It is nice though for car rides or when I'm making dinner.
Maybe I'm missing something, but I'm not understanding this.
I'm pretty sure DD has some electronic books on her LeapPad, but it's not like it reads her the words and shows her how they're spelled as they're reading it - right? At least, I've never seen that - so that's why I was thinking the Tag could be useful to help her learn to read. With the LeapPad it just seems like they're reading the stories to her - but I don't think she's looking at every word like I feel like she'd be doing if she ran the Tag over them one by one.
same here, Jake has at least 2 books that will do them word-by-word with the stylus pen. So we're also skipping getting the Tag system, too.
Jake - 1.15.08
Liam - 5.17.11
I guess I'll have to check that out then. I know ours hasn't done that up until this point.
Married, September 23, 2006