A passionate team
Celebrating the joy of children's literacy
Reader Bee interactive apps and books engage the child in a rich fantasy world. The interactive sensory process helps the child build cognitive links making the learning experience more engaging and memorable. Reader Bee has the first ever Chunking Engine with Phonics Sound outs with animated examples. The Phonics Sound outs assist the child with their understanding of the building blocks of words. The Phonics Sound outs are always available to the child, so the child is able to attack new words without the assistance of an adult. This method can be used to teach children how to read in a faster more effective, fun way.
This process takes ambiguity and unnecessary complexity out of learning. The Phonics Sound out feature is paired with animated examples of each word the child needs help with. This takes a lot of the pain out of the difficult process of learning new words, and makes learning to read faster and more intuitive.
Reader Bee Chunking Engine with Phonics Sound outs makes the process of decoding words clear, fun and engaging. This helps children stay engaged in the learning process and boosts their confidence. We strongly believe that making the process of learning easier and more intuitive is the most effective path to growth in fluency and confidence in learning. We want all of our children to enjoy the process of learning. All of them deserve a smooth and stress-free transition to the fluent ability to read.
Assessment tools are linked to the stories to help adults understand how the child is progressing. By gamifying the testing process, we aim to shift what used to be tedious activity to a more engaging process. This not only helps the child with motivation, it also helps the child build their confidence and motivation that they take with them into their other school experiences.
The Reader Bee Method is the most fun a child can have learning to read.
Message from
Mrs. Wordy
Our mission is simple: help children around the world learn to read! But sometimes, hard-working parents and guardians are too tired, burdened, or distracted to patiently help kids learn and give them the gift of reading. Reader Bee is the first of our apps aimed at helping children understand and enjoy language and learning.
Our Team
Eike Consulting
Eike Consulting has been Learning Circle Kids’ technology partner, building the Reader Bee app from its earliest conception through iteration after iteration to make the vision real.
Lela Dowling
Lela Dowling is the illustrator of the Reader Bee stories, and visualizer of Reader Bee, the Wizdings, and all the storybook characters. She is a freelance commercial conceptual artist, working on projects that involve cartooning, character or toy designs, logo design and book or magazine illustration. She often works on collaborate projects, and some past clients include Hasbro, Mattel, Electronic Arts, Totally Games, Big Ape Productions, Leapfrog, Yahoo!, XCOR, and Playdom. She occasionally displays and sells her fine art and prints at sci-fi & fantasy convention art shows around the country.
Tom Ho
Animator, artist and all-around visual wiz, Tom has been a freelance illustrator and Lead Artist at Lightsource Studios since 2001. He brought Reader Bee, the Wizdings, and all the story book characters to life.
Karen Vogelsang
Karen Vogelsang is a National Board Certified Teacher in Early Childhood Education and the 2015 Tennessee Teacher of the Year. She believes that early childhood literacy is critical for the well-being of everyone in a community, regardless of where they live. Karen’s role is to support the educational programming of Reader Bee for the benefit of children and their families as well as teachers and their students.