How can I decide if Headsprout is right for my child?

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Headsprout’s reading programs are designed to teach fundamental reading skills and strategies to a non-reading or beginning reading child - typically 4 to 7 years old. No special computer skills are required. Your child uses a mouse, not a keyboard, and Headsprout even includes a mouse practice exercise, called “Mousing Around” for children who aren’t familiar with computers.

Young children who are just beginning to learn basic academic skills benefit from Headsprout. The program does not require prior knowledge of letter names or sounds, and lessons can split into two or more sittings for children that require more frequent breaks. Headsprout captures the attention of young children. Lessons begin with easier skills and gradually increase in difficulty, keeping your child prepared all along the way.

Headsprout also benefits older readers, or children with some reading skills already established. Because Headsprout doesn’t necessarily assume any prior reading knowledge, it covers the basics and fills in any gaps. The program adapts to each child’s individual knowledge base. Material your child already knows is quickly reviewed or briefly practiced, while items that are new or more difficult to your child are given more instruction. This is accomplished by Headsprout’s patented technology, which responds to each child’s individual learning and response patterns.

Please note that at the current time, Episodes 1-40 must be completed before starting Episodes 41-80. This is to ensure that all learners have early critical reading skills firmly established before moving on and using these skills in the more complex and faster instructional pace of Episodes 41-80. Research has shown that many reading difficulties can be attributed to a lack of knowledge or fluency in core or basics reading skills. Headsprout wants to ensure these critical foundations skills are learned, and learned well.

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Date last modified: 10/11/2007