Hi there!
First, we want to say that Little Reader (LR) is an absolutely fantastic teaching tool! We have been amazed at how fast our two year old son went from barely being able to sound out a few letters to now being able to read complete sentences. All thanks to LR!
In fact, we literally can't stop talking about how great LR is. Whenever we meet other parents with young children, the first thing we say "You just have to get Little Reader! It will change your child's future!"
Now to our question. We just finished LR (semesters 1 and 2) with our two year old. To be precise, our son is 2 yrs and 7 months old. We started LR when he was about 20 months and we finished both semesters in just under one year.
We would love to be able to continue reading sessions with our son using LR. The problem is that we are simply too busy to create our own content on LR platform. We browsed through and downloaded user created content under
http://forum.brillkids.com/downloads/?cat=63 but we found that the quality of this content to be inconsistent. By "consistent," we mean things like: usage of primarily simple words, certain sentence structure, visuals that are clear and simple.
For example, the following sentences from LR semester 2 are great:
"I like to clap when mommy dances"
"A green frog can jump so high"
"Here are my two shoulders"
These are simple, easy to visualize sentences that use common words. The problem with user generated content is that it does not have the same consistency/quality ( There were a couple of downloads that were really, really good, e.g. "Transportation Sentences" under "Transportation" but certainly not enough).
What we are looking for is to hire someone to develop a continuation of LR semester 2 with emphasis on Simple Sentences. We would like for all stories to follow the same general pattern (similar to LR). Ideally, it would be nice if each sentence had a video/animation but probably pictures will be sufficient.
We are willing to pay per story or a set of stories developed and, of course, all of this content will be available to the entire community. If there is anyone who is currently doing this (developing quality content for LR) or who may be interested in this project, we would love to hear from you. We can pay on a per story basis or for multiple stories (e.g. a set of 20-30). What's important to us is that all new content adheres to a set of predefined guidelines much like LR content does. We can discuss these in advance.
Feel free to reply to this message or PM us if you may be interested.
Thanks in advance!
Cheers!
LG's Parents
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