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  • LeapFrog LeapSchool Reading Learning Game (works with LeapPad Tablets, LeapsterGS, and Leapster Explorer)

    LeapFrog LeapSchool Reading Learning Game (works with LeapPad Tablets, LeapsterGS, and Leapster Explorer)

    Meet the kids from the coolest school in the world in this fun reading adventure!
    o Complete quests and treasure hunts while building reading skills in 26 games.
    o Guide characters to the word with the correct spelling.
    o Help each of your friends build a yearbook page.
    o Teaches early reading skills, spelling and logic skills. Appropriate for children ages 4 to 7 years (grades pre-K to 1).
    o Works with Leapster ExplorerTM and LeapPad ExplorerTM (systems sold separately).

  • LeapFrog LeapPad Ultra eBook Learn to Read Collection: Adventure Stories (works with all LeapPad tablets)

    LeapFrog LeapPad Ultra eBook Learn to Read Collection: Adventure Stories (works with all LeapPad tablets)

    The second in the series of the LeapPad Learn to Read Ultra eBooks, this eBook revolutionizes the experience putting fun twists on adventure stories with interactive escapades featuring froggy friends. Using LeapPad’s advanced features; the eBook helps early readers build phonics and decoding skills, sight word recognition and reading comprehension. (Works with LeapFrog LeapPad1 Explorer & LeapFrog LeapPad2 Explorer Learning Tablets.)

    Drag the stylus over words to hear them sounded out.

    Drag the stylus over words to hear them sounded out.

    Collect 100 key words in your interactive word journal.

    Collect 100 key words in your interactive word journal.

    100 Key Words for Early Readers
    Unique to the Learn to Read Collection, each magical Ultra eBook features 100 key words like “fast” and “fun” that include: short vowels, blends, long vowel pairs, silent letters and more. Many of these high frequency words have common spelling patterns, helping new readers develop a foundation to transfer learning and expand vocabulary. Hear individual words sounded out. Touch a word to see letters highlight as it is sounded out. This helps kids develop an understanding of letter-sound relationships—the building blocks of phonics. Expand vocabulary with a visual dictionary. Vocabulary knowledge is closely linked to reading comprehension. Tap highlighted words for a kid-friendly definition and see a simple animation that shows a word’s meaning or how it’s used in the story.

    Three Auto-Adjusting Reading Levels
    The Learn to Read 2 Ultra eBook Adventure Stories enhances the way kids learn to read. With three reading levels in each story that adjust automatically kids can read at their pace. If they get stuck on a word, they can drag the stylus across the word to hear the word sounded out. Three levels of text in each Ultra eBook vary in complexity based on how kids perform in comprehension activities. To support reading development, text must be at an optimal level of difficulty. Studies have shown that children who learn to read and write early on are more likely to experience overall success in school.

    Seven Action-Packed Activities
    Each Ultra eBook in the Learn to Read Collection features engaging activities including Shake & Drag, where readers complete short sections of the story by filling in the blanks with words that they shake out of the sentences. This activity aims to teach kids to identify the word and its logical location in the story. Designed to encourage kids to think more deeply about the story and assess their level of understanding, performance on comprehension activities determines a child’s suggested reading level. Ultra eBooks have integrated mini games that are not only fun, but help move the story forward. As kids play they actively experience what they are reading, bringing stories to life in a whole new way.

    What’s In The Box?
    LeapPad Learn to Read Ultra eBook 2 game cartridge (compatible with both LeapFrog LeapPad1 Explorer and LeapFrog LeapPad2 Explorer), Parent Guide & Instruction Book.

    LeapFrog Learning Library

    LeapFrog Learning Library. Take advantage of the library of hundreds of games, creativity apps, ebooks, music, videos and more to keep kids challenged and inspired. From math and science to creativity and reading, we provide fun and engaging learning solutions that adapt to each child’s level and help them build new skills.


  • VTech Touch and Teach Word Book

    VTech Touch and Teach Word Book

    Touch & Teach Word Book

    Discover the magic of words with the Touch & Teach Word Book by VTech. Cody The Smart Cub and Cora The Smart Cub teach letters and more than 100 words in four different activities. Twelve interactive pages come to life with the touch of a finger.

    Make reading an even more interactive experience with the Touch & Teach Word Book. Each page reacts to your child’s touch with sounds, words and music. This word book includes more than 100 words, 90 unique sounds and 15 melodies on 12 fully-colored and incredibly detailed touch sensitive pages.

    Play in four different modes including What’s That Word?, Letter Fun, Music Time and Find It Quiz Game. The Touch & Teach Word Book also helps expand your child’s vocabulary by introducing the ABCs and helping them read while associating words with pictures and sounds. Available in orange and pink.

    Features:
    • Make reading an even more interactive experience with pages that react to your child’s touch with sounds, words and music.
    • Includes more than 100 words, 12 fully-colored and incredibly detailed touch-sensitive pages and more than 90 unique sounds and 15 melodies.
    • Four different modes of play include What’s That Word?, Letter Fun, Music Time and Find It! Quiz Game.
    • Helps expand your child’s vocabulary by introducing the ABCs and helping them read while associating words with pictures and sounds.

  • LeapFrog Disney Sofia The First Sofia’s New Friends Interactive Storybook (for LeapPad Tablets)

    LeapFrog Disney Sofia The First Sofia’s New Friends Interactive Storybook (for LeapPad Tablets)

    An Enchanting Story Starring Sofia

    Go beyond the castle walls as Sofia the First explores an old misunderstanding with Enchancia’s neighbors and follows her heart to make amends. This interactive storybook experience isn’t just about words coming to life; it’s about jumping in and becoming part of the action. Join princess-in-training Sofia and more beloved characters from the Disney TV show on this enchanting reading adventure, and get practice with phonics, vocabulary skills, word recognition, and listening and reading comprehension along the way. The Disney interactive storybook Sofia the First: Sofia’s New Friends is designed specifically for children ages 3 to 5 and works with all LeapPad learning tablets. (Does not work with LeapsterGS or Leapster Explorer)

    This story is written at 3 levels that automatically adjust—from simple text to more complex words and sentences.

    Expand the fun with 6 learning games and 3 mini-games, including a dress-up game in Sofia’s closet.
    Curriculum that Goes Beyond Core Skills

    LeapFrog interactive storybooks are packed with learning that goes beyond practice reading. Sofia the First features six engaging learning activities designed to encourage kids to think more deeply about the story and assess their level of understanding. In the learning game Shake & Drag, children complete short sections of the story by filling in the blanks with words that they shake out of the sentences. This activity aims to teach kids to identify the word and its logical location in the story. Another comprehension activity asks children to sequence a set of three images based on where they occur in the story, supporting early summarizing skills. Additional activities include comprehension questions that prompt children to recall key story events, draw conclusions, make inferences and consider how characters are developed throughout the story. At the end of the book, children are asked to identify a range of basic high-frequency sight words such as “the” and “of,” along with words that have predictable spelling patterns, such as can and in to reinforce beginning word recognition skills.

    Personalized for Every Child

    As with all LeapFrog interactive storybooks, Sofia the First: Sofia’s New Friends offers the same story written at three levels. The text level automatically adjusts based on a child’s performance on a range of listening comprehension and early word identification activities, which children encounter throughout the story. For children who have not yet begun to read on their own, hearing text read aloud helps build comprehension and vocabulary. Early readers can read along with or without audio, and if they would like to try to read a word on their own, they can tap it to see letters highlight as the word is sounded out. This helps foster an understanding of letter-sound relationships—the building blocks of phonics.

    Fun with Their Favorite Characters

    LeapFrog interactive storybooks have integrated mini-games that are not only entertaining, but help move the story forward. As kids play, they actively experience what they are reading, bringing stories to life in a whole new way. In Sofia the First, children can extend the fun with three mini-games and a special look at the castle. They get to decorate a kite and use the motion sensor to “fly” it, play a tiny tune with Teeny Troll and select outfits for Princess Sofia from Sofia’s closet. They can even go behind-the-scenes to learn about royal life, explore knights’ armor and watch the castle acrobats perform!

    Learning experts create or approve every experience

    All LeapFrog educational games and interactive storybooks are created or approved by an in-house team of learning experts for the most effective, age-appropriate learning experience. Sofia the First features engaging learning activities designed by educators to build phonics, vocabulary skills, word recognition, and listening and reading comprehension skills. Vocabulary knowledge is closely linked to reading comprehension, and Sofia the First also includes a visual dictionary to help build early vocabulary skills. Children can tap highlighted words for a kid-friendly definition and see a simple animation that shows a word’s meaning or how it’s used in the story. As in all titles, the visual dictionary for Sofia the First includes words such as cheer, warn and brave, which are commonly used in English oral language across a wide range of contexts. It also includes words such as majesty, observatory and royal, which are essential for understanding the story.

    Disney Sofia the First: Sofia’s New Friends is compatible with all LeapPad Kids’ Learning Tablets.
    Key Features

    Read or listen along with Sofia the First and more beloved characters in this magnificent story with true heart. With three levels of text, six built-in learning games and educator-designed reading support, emergent readers can make royal strides in their reading skills while exploring this interactive storybook. Three mini-games and a special peek at castle life add to the fun and learning! Children earn badges for learning achievements that unlock special items. Parents can connect to the online LeapFrog Learning Path for customized learning insights and ideas to expand the learning.

    Teaches:
    • Phonics
    • Vocabulary skills
    • Word recognition
    • Listening and reading comprehension

  • LeapFrog LeapPad Carrying Case, green (Works with all LeapPad2 Tablets and LeapsterGS))

    LeapFrog LeapPad Carrying Case, green (Works with all LeapPad2 Tablets and LeapsterGS))

    LeapFrog LeapPad Carrying Case, green (Works with LeapPad2 and LeapPad1)

  • LeapFrog LeapReader Book: Get Ready for Kindergarten (works with Tag)

    LeapFrog LeapReader Book: Get Ready for Kindergarten (works with Tag)

    Have fun while building essential skills for school success.

    Have fun while building essential skills for school success.
    This interactive multi-subject book introduces nearly 40 kindergarten readiness skills.

    This interactive multi-subject book introduces nearly 40 kindergarten readiness skills.
    Math, Science, Reading, and Social Studies

    The LeapReader Get Ready for Kindergarten interactive book contains a broad range of math, science, reading, and social studies curriculum combined with engaging art and fun audio effects. As children explore the book, learning comes to life with character voices, sound effects and fun activities. LeapReader’s Get Ready for Kindergarten is designed to give kids ages 4 to 6 an introduction to nearly 40 essential kindergarten skills. This interactive book is for use with the LeapReader Reading & Writing System and is also compatible with the Tag Reading System (sold separately).

    Get Ready for Kindergarten and Life!

    Based on educational research, we know that children who enter Kindergarten with certain key readiness skills may be better positioned for future academic success.* Get Ready for Kindergarten helps kids build these important readiness skills through fun interactions. In addition to math, phonics, and pattern recognition, this interactive book promotes children’s curiosity and fosters an eagerness to learn about science, social studies and more.

    Fun, Interactive Learning

    LeapReader’s Get Ready for Kindergarten gives kids a boost in learning areas that prepare them for success. This multi-subject interactive book helps prepare kids for school with a hands-on introduction to essential kindergarten skills. In Word Circus, children use consonants and vowels to build a variety of one-syllable circus-themed words. In Monster Math, kids count sets of candy up to 10 as a monster loads the pieces into its bag. Kids also learn to recognize dinosaurs, identify people and places in the community, understand the seasons and explore different instruments. Other entertaining activity pages teach word building, comprehension, pattern recognition, skip counting, calendar skills and beginning social studies concepts.

    Teaches:
    • Reading skills: Reading is a process that involves decoding series of letters into words to understand meaning.
    • Science concepts: Children learn to consider scientific concepts within the domains of life science, physical science, and earth science.
    • Mathematics: Mathematics involves recognizing patterns and solving problems using logic, number sense, and spatial relations.
    • Social studies and culture: Learning about the people and places in our world helps children to become global citizens.

    * Source: Santa Clara County Partnership’s study, “Does readiness matter? How kindergarten readiness translates into academic success: A data report.”

  • VTech – InnoTab Software – Disney Princesses

    VTech – InnoTab Software – Disney Princesses

    Your little explorer can gear up for some learning fun with the VTech InnoTab Disney Princess Software. This cartridge contains games, an e-book and creative activities for InnoTab by VTech! She can join her favorite Disney Princesses as they go on a learning journey in this educational game.

  • LeapFrog LeapPad Ultra Carrying Case, Green

    LeapFrog LeapPad Ultra Carrying Case, Green

    The LeapPad Ultra Carry Case works exclusively with LeapPad Ultra Learning Tablets.

  • LeapFrog 21201 LeapReader Junior Book Pal – Scout

    LeapFrog 21201 LeapReader Junior Book Pal – Scout

    The Book Pal is easy to use and designed especially for toddlers’ hands and motor skills
    Magic with Every Touch

    Explore books with your pal Scout! By simply touching the book pal to the specially printed page of a LeapReader Junior board book, children can hear the story text, songs, engaging sound effects or open-ended questions to encourage them to continue to explore. With 24 activities and 150 responses or more in most books, children can spend hours playing and learning. LeapReader Junior is appropriate for children ages 1 to 4 years.

    What’s in the Box?
    • LeapFrog LeapReader Junior book pal
    • Sampler board book (audio pre-loaded on book pal)
    • User guide
    • USB cable
    Personalize the learning by downloading your child’s name

    Personalize the learning by downloading your child’s name
    Every Book Deserves a Pal

    With a size and shape specifically designed for the hands and motor skills of younger children, the LeapFrog LeapReader Junior Scout book pal uses touch technology to engage children and help them build reading basics, preschool skills and a confidence in their ability to navigate the first steps toward reading.

    For parents, the book pal offers easy audio download with no cartridges to lose, volume control and it turns itself off automatically after a period of inactivity to save battery life. Parents can also personalize the book pal to keep children engaged as it greets your child or bids them farewell using their name.

    Practice letter names, explore how books work and play fun activities in each book (sold separately)

    Practice letter names, explore how books work and play fun activities in each book (sold separately)
    An Amazing Library Awaits

    Each LeapReader Junior board book is part of the Get Ready to Read series, designed to help toddlers explore books and build confidence as they begin their reading journey with the LeapReader Learn to Read System. The full LeapReader Learn to Read System library features more than 80 interactive books, puzzles, maps and more (sold separately). LeapReader Junior holds audio for up to 5 books at a time. The books feature 24+ playful activities and more than 150 audio responses to help reinforce the learning.

    Parents can “teach” Scout their child’s name to make the get-ready-to-read experience more personal. They can also see their child’s progress through the free, online LeapFrog Learning Path, and get printable activities to expand the learning fun. Internet connection is required to download additional book audio. The LeapReader Junior book pal is compatible with all Tag Junior books.

  • VTech – InnoTab Software – Dora The Explorer

    VTech – InnoTab Software – Dora The Explorer

    In this exciting new Dora the Explorer educational game cartridge for the InnoTab Interactive Learning Tablet from VTech, your child can play three learning games that teach preschool skills such as logic, Spanish and matching using a color touch screen or tilt sensor. Kids can read along with an adventure story featuring Dora, Boots and all their friends. A pop-up dictionary features kid-friendly definitions of words found in the story to help build vocabulary. Two creative activities allow kids to play and create with Dora and creations can be saved on InnoTab’s onboard memory or on an SD card (not included). 3 interactive learning games reinforce skills such as letters, shapes and counting. E-book tells the story of Dora and Boots as they set out on an adventure using fun sounds, voices and animations. Pop-up dictionary uses animated definitions to teach new vocabulary in a fun way. 2 creative activities create an adventure story and help Dora plant a flower garden. Creations may be saved to the InnoTab onboard memory, or SD card (sold separately).

    Creations may be saved to the InnoPad onboard memory, or SD card (sold separately)