This is an excellent product for helping your little one learn how to read. I bought this for my 3 year old on his birthday and he always loves when we play with this! It has so many choices in books you can buy for it as well. Not only does the pen tell you what the words say and read the story to you, but it also interacts with all the pages and you can play games and take quizzes within the books as well! Perfect!

xocutiepiexo

Dover, PA

I love this product. Leapfrog has provided not only the children but also the parents joy and happiness. This product is an interactive pen that talks, plays, and sings with your child. The pen is dragged across a leapfrog book designed for the pen, and a wold or wonders opens for the child. All while learning! This product makes children want to learn.

Seniority

USA

The Leapfrog Tag reading system is a good learning tool. My daughter was in the process of learning to read when I purchased this and it worked well for her. However, there are only so many books you can buy. When I read to my kids we go through several books a night and it takes a while before they want to read the same book again so my kids eventually got bored with this. That may not be the case with all kids though so if you are trying to help your child learn to read, I would still recommend this.

cpeg85

USA

My autistic 5 year old received this toy as a gift and is in love! As a mother, I'm a little more critical of toys, but this one absolutely delivers. The key is getting the right stage of books. The books for 5-8 year olds are amazing. They allow the child to read the whole page at a time, one word at a time, and even one letter at a time. For the new reader struggling with phonics, it gives them the option to listen to the individual letter sounds so that they can put it all together (or if they can't put it all together, they can slide the reader across the word, listening to one sound after the other, then to the entire word). For the child who has the letter sounds down, but has difficulty discerning between letters similar in shape, the tag reader also has the option to hear the letter name. In addition to the awesome reading options, there are also interactive games available on each page. The books are available in all different reading levels, from beginner to advanced, and the word count and vocabulary are adjusted accordingly. If you're considering buying the Tag Reading System, don't hesitate! You will love it and your kids will too. My extremely active boys (5 & 2) use theirs daily!

MamiMeg

Banning, CA

we purchased the leapfrog tag reading system for our son hoping that it would help him continue his reading skills that he was learning at kindergarten. his teacher recommended this because as a young five year old kindergartener he wasn't as advanced as the other children and was trying to find excuses not to participate in the writer's workshop portion of the class. i think in the beginning it was a novelty for him and he had the best time using it to read the few tag books we had bought along with the tag system. but in a few weeks he really lost interest and stopped using it. now our three year old is picking it up and perhaps he'll have more continued interest since he's younger. all in all, not a bad tool but lacking in staying power.

gmscot

Stone Mountain, GA

Even though we have Ipads in our home, which offer the touch-screen experience of 'reading' books and playing games, our kids still love their LeapFrog Tags. There is something so cool about opening up a REAL book and tapping REAL pages as opposed to the screen. They love all the different options- there's always something new to discover. The only downside would be that we have to connect it to the computer to install new games- in fact, the software is old now and doesn't match up to our newer Mac System.

jeniroca

Attleboro, MA

My son uses his tag reader and books on and off. He'll go through phases where he reads them daily, and then go for weeks without picking them up. He likes that "the man" reads the books to him, and he also likes to click on the pictures to see what the characters say. One thing this product has not done is teach him how to read....at all....not even a little bit. So don't buy it if your goal is for your child to learn to read! It actually does the opposite. Our son (3.5) is usually very interested in sight words that he already knows and in learning new ones, but when he reads the Tag books, he could care less. I've tried to show him how the pen tells you what each word is, but he doesn't care.

tamillajo

Middletown, OH

My two children ages three and five love this tag reading system. They have the system as a set which includes the carrying case, one pen, and three books. There are games that can be played within the book and they can also have the book read to them with the pen. All they have to do is point the pen to the word and the word is spoken to them. It is helping my kindergarten child learn how to say words by looking at them and hearing their sound. Would recommend this to all parents with young children who are learning to read.

freejack

Northeast, NE

The LeapFrog Tag Reading System is pretty neat. There are lots of different books to choose from. They even have books with popular cartoon characters like Dora and Spongebob and Scooby Doo. My daughter has fun with the I spy game books and likes the Tag pen the way it is interactive and you can choose different types of interaction with the pen. She can touch on the characters and they say things, she can touch the letters for sounds and phonics type reading or just choose to have it read the words. I think that the reading sounds weird and choppy and kind of hard to follow the story line because of it, but this is still a great educational tool. The set up of the LeapFrog Tag System was really easy. You plug the pen in to a USB port on your computer and download a few things and select the books that you have and want to download to it and it Syncs really fast, the whole process took less then 10 minutes and that included putting 5 books in the Tag reader. The system and the books are reasonably priced and of good value for what you get. I would recommend any of the LeapFrog products my children have had. I think these are great interactive learning toys.

natn270778

East Alton, IL

This is a great educational item. I had previously bought the smaller MB sized one and I would say that my biggest con is that it didn't hold enough books. We've recently upgraded to this larger 32 mb and we love it. It holds a good variety of books and it is great that you can select to have the story read and the child can follow along or the child can use the pen to read the words independently. Highly recommend for your pre-readers.

birdieIam

Round Lake, IL