LeapFrog Tag Junior Book: The Backyardigans Opposites
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More than 24 playful activities encourage toddlers to take charge and explore while helping build confidence with books focuses on opposites & also introduces position words & matching children can touch the tag junior(tm) book pal to any part of any page & discover more than 130 audio responses in this book parents can see childs progress through the online leapfrog(r) learning path & get printable activities to expand the learning for ages 2 - 4
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- Learn about opposites as you race to outer space with the Backyardigans- Touch your Tag Junior book pal to any part of any page and discover more than 130 audio responses in this book
- More than 24 playful activities encourage toddlers to take charge and explore, while helping build confidence with books
- Each Tag Junior board book focuses on a different preschool skill, the Backyardigans Opposites focuses on opposites and also introduces position words and matching
- See your child's progress through the online LeapFrog Learning Path, and get printable activities to expand the learning
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By vanilla beaniyeh (Virginia, USA)
I own the entire Tag Junior library. Read my reviews before buying books! (I wish I had researched before buying them all!)
The reason why this book gets a lower rating than the others I've rated is because sometimes the concept the book is trying to demonstrate is often confusing based on the examples they use. Here are the "opposites" they teach in this book:
-Start v. Finish*
-Slow v. Fast*
-Top v. Bottom*
-Over v. Under
-Wet v. Dry
-Inside v. Outside
-Near v. Far*
-Narrow v. Wide
-Last v. First
-Hello v. Goodbye*
Starred are the confusing ones.
Start v. Finish is demonstrated by a map where X marks Start and a finish line marks Finish. For children who are not familiar with the concept of maps, they won't get it. Not only that, but the example should be obvious as to which direction they are going in, but start to finish is only joined by a dotted line with a very small arrow at the end at Finish. Perhaps it should have a dotted line with large arrows on it pointing toward finish.
Slow v. Fast is also confusing because it shows one of the Backyardigans going on a ski slope in regular skis which represents Slow and Pablo on a snowmobile which represents Fast. The child would have to have a background knowledge of winter sports to be able to know that the snowmobile is motorized and therefore faster, but I live in a place that never gets any snow and my child didn't get what they were demonstrating based on this example.
Top v. Bottom was not clear at all. This concept is demonstrated by two snowboarding Backyardigans, one supposedly at the top of the mountain and one supposedly at the bottom. However, neither of them are on the mountain at all.
Near v Far is demonstrated by spaceships -- one is Near to reader, others are "Far" from the reader close to the moon out in space. To further confuse things, they included the earth on the page, yet it's not the base for comparison, so the child at first glance will not know what the spaceships are near to and far from -- "the earth or me?" The way they did this whole concept is confusing because it is the first and only concept that uses the reader as its base for comparison.
And finally, Hello v. Goodbye is confusing because Hello is demonstrated by a handshake and goodbye is demonstrated by a hand wave. Most people use waving for hello and goodbye, and some people do not shake hands at all and given the germophobia of the 2000s handshaking is becoming a little dated in America.
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I usually like thinking outside the box, but when teaching a concept to toddlers, LeapFrog should be OBVIOUS with it. I mean, making the concept unclear is like writing a number backwards while teaching counting or writing a letter upside-down while teaching the alphabet. Overall, I like the idea/theme of the race to teach opposites, but I think they should change this book to make the opposite concept more obvious on some of the pages.
By Cara Holland (Chicagoland, IL)
This is a great book. I would not knock the book down to a one just because it is not compatible. The focus is the book and this book is great at teaching opposites. My two year old daughter loves her reader and this book and my five year old son uses her junior reader instead of his older reader. Great buy.
By Carl O
Do not belive Leap Frog!! The Tag Reader can not utilize the Tag Jr. books. They think they will have a patch in mid July. Don't buy yet if you want to use with the Tag Reader. Very disappointing.
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