Welcome To The KidsVoyager® Web Site

KidsVoyager Online Learning Center is a major tool in our our New York based language & literacy center, where our clients have realized substantial benefits. Membership in KidsVoyager Online Learning Center includes (via phone or email) instructional support, help with lesson planning, discussions about your child, language and literacy milestones, etc. from our professional staff. The price of membership is 120.00 per year.

Age Range: 4,5,6,7,8,9...Adult

Key Benefits For Your Child

KidsVoyager extends the natural learning environment children experience in their "early years" by safely making the vast amount of children's information on the Internet available for your child's enjoyment and education.

As a result, your child will achieve significant benefits in terms of general knowledge and -- due to KidsVoyager's patented technologies -- achieve any desired skill level with respect to reading, spelling, vocabulary, and all areas of literacy.

KidsVoyager's profiles and parental controls allow you to customize the experience for your child by providing your own special greeting, and easily creating a "browse boundary," like a fence around a playground, so your child can have a safe, enjoyable, educational experience.

We provide free technical support as well as free language support by a licensed speech and language expert, which you can use to help with any language issue, or receive specific recommendations on use.

KidsVoyager - Is It Work or Is It Play?

After his parents signed up for KidsVoyager Online, their first grade son expected it to be work, since he'd be using it to learn and to help with his homework.

His preschool sister, age 4, who loves dinosaurs and outer space, however, would be using it to read and play games about dinosaurs and outer space, so she thought it would be play.

But one thing they would both agree on is that being online with KidsVoyager Online is a snap. That it's amazing to be able to understand everything they see. And that it's even more amazing to be able to look things up all by themselves

The brother would soon realize that if he simply moved his mouse over a paragraph on a Web page, the paragraph spoke! And as soon as he moved it away, it stopped. But not just a paragraph. A heading. A link. Anything.

Try moving your mouse over this paragraph, and then this link, to see what happens.

He would also notice that if he clicked a word, the word was spoken, and if he double clicked it, he could automatically look it up or search on it.

His entire feeling about reading would change. He would enjoy reading about many topics because it was completely natural. No struggling whatsoever.

He would find it incredible to actually see words he already knew by ear, being spelled out in a speech balloon as he listened to them.

He would begin to love to read. And to learn.

His little sister, with her mom's help, would discover a whole other part to KidsVoyager.
She would discover that if she moved the mouse over a letter, (try it) it spoke. And if she clicked it (try), it showed all the sounds it can make.

"I have a 6 year old and a mildly learning disabled 13 year old son. They can now get on the computer and do just about anything they want. Learning games, stories, and other things I've set up in their favorites. The fact that all they have to do is just move the mouse to hear what they want means they can understand things now that they couldn't before. They use it a lot. My 6 year old seems to be learning bigger and bigger words every day, various other things, and has even taught himself how to multiply! And they both can now follow along as Merlin [the KidsVoyager animated character] speaks, and they're retaining things. My 13 year old has made a very large improvement in reading since we started using KidsVoyager a little over 2 months ago. I can't say that's as a result of KidsVoyager, since he's receiving other help as well, but I certainly think it's part of it."

C. Nichols
Florida

She and her mother would find this exciting. Not only would she be having a great time exploring Mars, but every time she searched, she'd see new words. And learn that maize was Indian Corn! How many 4 year olds know this?

She'd experience hands-on (with KidsVoyager Talking Phonics Icons) how individual sounds make up words. And the letters that make the sounds. And find that in only 5 mouse clicks she could "spell" almost any word she wanted to look up! (Using Phonic Engine^® Technology)

So brother and sister both, regardless of the difference in age and reading level, would learn more about reading, spelling and vocabulary. And learn about their world.

What can you expect from your child and KidsVoyager?

If you sign up for KidsVoyager Online and encourage your child to use it regularly (if necessary), your child -- even as young as 4 or 5 -- will be able to safely surf and search the Web as easily as you.

Your child will be able understand any Web page, have fun and learn from it. Your child will be able to spell any word, and search on it.

Your child will be able to read, spell, understand, explore, and play with no stress. This means learning.

If your child's already an "advanced" reader, KidsVoyager can provide extra entertainment by making every Web page a multimedia experience.

If your child's a beginning or intermediate reader, or having a hard time learning to read, KidsVoyager provides just the help needed to read and spell, surf and search, without stress. So your child doesn't have to feel frustrated, struggling with certain words, which can result in losing the meaning of what's being read.

Children can start with KidsVoyager before they can read. If used in a non-structured way, your child can simply play, clicking here and there, listening to the Web, while learning to read and spell at the same time.

Or, it can be used in a structured way. KidsVoyager's patented techniques merge sound teaching strategies so your child can learn in a manner best suited to him or her: by topics, by letters or sounds, or by anything. And no matter what the approach, the educational result will be the same, and will be comprehensive.

KidsVoyager organizes information by the way things sound, so learning about a topic teaches not only about the topic itself, but about the sounds of the words that relate to the topic, the letters that make them, and other topics with similar letters and sounds.

Learning about letters teaches about the sounds they make, other letters that make the same sounds, and topics relating the sounds. Learning about sounds teaches about the letters that make them, other sounds made by those letters, and topics related to the letters and sounds.

For example, if you work with your child on the planet Mars, your child will learn about the letter M, the letter S, the fact that S can make the "s" sound, the "z" sound and the "sh" sound. That both S and Z can make the "z" sound. That some of the words that begin with the "m" sound and end with the "z" sound include maize, maze, and mayonnaise. Your child may investigate maize, and learn about it too. And, or course, learn about Mars and the solar system.

Learning by letters or sounds (such as S, M, "s", or "z"), will teach the same things.

If you think back to when your child was one, two, or three, you can realize how natural learning typically is. Looking around, walking around, running, soaking everything in. If you think about it, the advances your child made by the age of three is simply astounding.

KidsVoyager Online extends this natural learning environment upward. It turns the Internet into a natural (and safe) learning environment by removing any obstacle that might get in the way of your child's curiosity and enjoyment.

The Beginning Reader

Your child basically knows the alphabet, and knows -- pretty much -- the "main" sound each letter makes. Possibly a bit more. Imagine, for a moment, that you are your child.

You're sitting, either by yourself, or with mom or dad, in front of your computer, having started up KidsVoyager. You find that when you move the mouse over a paragraph, an animated character immediately speaks the words. You find that when you move the mouse off, he immediately stops.

You also find that if you accidentally move it off the paragraph, then click on the white background of the Web page, the talking begins where it left off. What a relief.

You soon realize that when you move your mouse over anything that looks like a "chunk" of text, like a heading, or a link, that only the heading or link is spoken, not the surrounding paragraph.

And if you're tired, you can simply click an icon, lean back, and hear the entire Web page. You enjoy learning about dinosaurs and other things, listening to stories, and sometimes reading along out loud.

And you discover, too, that if you click a word, it's pronounced, which helps you to learn it, and if you double-click it, a new version of KidsVoyager appears, showing a children's dictionary, with the clicked word filled in the search box!

One day in your Kindergarten class, they're talking about the solar system. And, now that you're home, you'd like to find out more about Mars.

Lucky you! Mom and dad have set your home page to a kids' search engine -- Yahooligans. You've discovered (with the help of mom and dad), that you can search on any word. That all you need to know is the sound it begins with and the sound it ends with.

And you already know all that. In fact, you've known it for about a year now. It took a little bit of practice to become second nature, but now it's a snap. You realize that all you have to do is click on several "Talking Phonics Icons" and, magically, the correctly spelled word shows up at the bottom of KidsVoyager, and in the search box of Yahooligans.

You've realized that this helps you to read and spell. You've discovered that by clicking on the icons, you see and hear all the different sounds that all the letters can make, sometimes in combination with other letters. You're learning the rules that help you turn spoken words into a written words. Teachers sometimes call this "cracking the code."

Although you don't know it, this method of learning is called called phonics. You're also becoming more and more aware that words are made by combining individual sounds. Again, although you don't know it, this has a name too. It's called "phonemic awareness", and it's extremely important. This will serve you well in the years to come, as it will make reading and spelling much easier for you.

You've discovered that usually, there's only a small group of words that have the same beginning and ending sounds. And when you see and hear this group words, by mousing over it, you've become aware of words you didn't even know existed. And sometimes ask your parents about it.

You've noticed that many words aren't spelled the way they ought to be! That laugh ends with a "gh"! Ha Ha!

You find out that by exploring and searching, you're learning to read and spell! And you're discovering more words. And hearing jokes to tell your friends. And enjoying stories, and reading them out loud.

And your amazed that other kids don't enjoy reading and learning stuff as much as you do.

The Intermediate Reader

Your child basically knows how to read and spell, but there are some words that are still not recognized. Imagine, for a moment, that you are your child.

You read stories out loud in school. But you find it somewhat stressful when you come across a word you don't exactly know. Some other kids may know that particular word, and try to say it, but the teacher says "Shhh!."

You discover KidsVoyager. You figure out all the things that the beginning reader found out, but don't need it all.

You sit in front of your computer, reading silently to yourself, and come across a word you don't recognize. You simply click it, and hear it. You do recognize it after all! Hopefully next time, or the time after that, you'll remember it.

But in the mean time, you continue your reading.

You basically know all the possible sounds that all the letters can make, but occasionally. you may forget that in "kn", the "k" is silent. You don't exactly forget it, but just don't remember it all the time when you write.

KidsVoyager helps out here too, because when you try and spell "know" with an "n", you notice that in the group of 4 words that begin and end with the "n" and "o" sound, you see "no" and "know."

Your teacher has told you that you need to make "mental pictures" of words. And you find that KidsVoyager makes this much easier, because it lets you have the pleasure of reading without the stress.

You can read any story, easily get the context, hear any printed word, and have opportunity after opportunity to make mental pictures of correct spellings.

When you're older, you'll come to understand that the mental picture is essential for good spelling, since English spelling is so complex. There are no rules that are not broken and most words could theoretically be spelled multiple ways.

One day, you will jokingly write "moast werds cud thearetikly bee speld multapel weighs!"