I had the opportunity to review Reading Kingdom over about the last six weeks. It is an online learning program, geared at children ages 4-10. I signed up my daughter, Layne, to try out the program, who just turned five last week.
Reading Kingdom was created by Dr. Marion Blank, author of The Reading Remedy and is the director of the Light on Literacy program and Columbia University in NY. This system is to teach all six skills needed for reading and writing success. They are: sequencing, motor skills, sounds, meaning, grammar, and comprehension.
With my daughter being a new 5-year-old, she has been working on “Seeing Sequences and Letter Land”. I thought my daughter would need to do the keyboard and mouse training to become familiar with the keys of the keyboard and use of the mouse, but she got rather testy when I had her do some of the training so we exited out of it and let her start with the sequencing and Letter Land.
There are little pictures/icons that tell you about your child’s progress, such as if a level is completed, in progress, is not required, needs attention, or good/very good/excellent performance. So far Layne needs attention when it comes to seeing sequences and is doing very well in Letter Land. There is also a status bar to where your child is in the course as compared to its entirety.
Here is an example of what the section she is on looks like:
