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Summary: totally captivating and very educational
Review: We bought this for our three year old son, and have suggested it to other friends too. All of the kids had the same reaction - they absolutely LOVED it!
A great educational product!
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Summary: Makes learning fun!
Review: We have been having trouble getting our almost-4-year-old interested in learning the letters. He can name all of the dinosaurs in an encylopedia, but he couldn't deciper 'Q' from 'P', nor did he really care too. He hated working on his letters in any form (flashcards, toys, books), and we had to bribe him to do so. After reading some reviews on this DVD, I went out and bought it last night. He watched it 4 times and by bedtime, was telling us the sounds for several letters, and was excited about it! Before this, we had not even introduced sounds yet, as we were still trying to get him to learn the letter names. He progressed quite a bit just by watching this 4 times. Also, I was impressed at how well it kept his attention and how much he enjoyed it. We normally limit his movie viewing time, so he has to be choosy about what he wants to watch. The only concern I had was that he misunderstood some of the sounds... like he thinks 'U' sounds like 'up' because the U's were floating up as they were saying the 'uhh' sound. Overall, I would definitely recommend this video to any parent trying to teach their children the alphabet and letter sounds. I'll be purchasing the Word Factory next!
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Summary: Great DVD, higly recommend it!
Review: My two-year-old received this for her second birthday and she absolutely loves it! At such a young age she is already making the sounds of letters, and is able to differentiate between all of the letters. This DVD keeps her attention through the entire presentation. I would highly recommend this DVD to all Parents.
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Summary: the best yet
Review: We like Leapfrog products but they don't always hold my daughters (4 years old) interest. We have also tried hooked on phonics, other videos, etc and she wouldnt even watch or listen to it once. This one is amazing though, she asks to watch it or puts it in herself, she would watch it all day if I let her. We have only owned it a week and I know she already recognizes and knows the sounds of at least a half dozen letters. Not only that but she tries to remember and say all the letters and their sounds, including the sound for letters like "L" which she has been doing in speech therapy for 6 months and I hadn't once heard her try until yesterday (and she had been out of school/speech for 9 days b/c of the ice storm).I highly recommend it, we are going to buy and try the word factory too after she masters more of these letters.
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Summary: WE ARE WAITING FOR THE NEXT DVD
Review: I DONT KNOW WHO LIKES LEAP, TAD AND LILLY BETTER. MY 2 YEAR OLD SON OR ME.... THIS DVD HAS PROMPTED ME TO WRITE MY FIRST REVIEW. I CANNOT TELL YOU HOW EFFECTIVE AND FUN IT IS FOR MY SON TO WATCH. HE HAS ALL LETTERS AND SOUNDS DOWN AND HAS ASSOCIATED WORDS WITH LETTERS THANKS TO THE DVD. PLEASE PLEASE TELL ME WHEN THE NEXT ONE IS COMING OUT.
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Summary: Excellent learning tool!
Review: My 3 year old watched this video 2 times and immediately started recognizing letter sounds. Now he goes around sounding out letters on t-shirts, books signs, etc. We had tried other techniques before like flashcards but nothing worked as great as this video. I would also highly recommend the Word Factory also.
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Summary: Unbelievable!
Review: My son is 18 months old. A week after he started watching this DVD, he started saying the sounds to letters, A, B, D, H, I, M, Z! He really loves it, and my son is so picky about what he watches! Hats off to Leap Frog! Again!
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Summary: Wuh-Wuh-WOW!!!!!
Review: I have two little boys, age 4 1/2 and 18 months, who have been recieving Leapfrog toys from my mother-in-law since they were infants, and they always seem to be the toys that get the most play time. So when my husband saw the "Letter Factory" and "Word Factory" DVD's and suggested that maybe Santa should bring them to us for Christmas, I figured they might be worth trying. I was totally unprepared for the effect these DVD's have had, and continue to have on my sons, especially the 4 year old. We have been trying here and there over the last year to get him interested in the alphabet, but he was always too busy with other things to really get into it. We stuck this DVD into the player on Christmas day and have played it at least once a day since, and both of my boys are glued for the entire 30 minutes every time it is on.
Here is the reason I am so impressed, and therefore writing this review: My four year old walked up to me just now, looked at my shirt and informed me of every letter printed on it, AND what the letter sounds like, AND a list of words that start with the letter mentioned, without difficulty. There were 15 different letters.
WOW.
This is all a result of the Word Factory and Letter Factory DVD's, and we have had them for less than a month.
The creators behind this DVD set are brilliant to say the least. They somehow seem to know just what goes on inside preschoolers heads. The characters and songs are cute without being "cutesy" and they somehow manage to repeat each letter or word and its sound several times without being redundant. The main adult character, Professor Quigley, teaches the three siblings, Leap, Lily and Tad, by helping them complete a project. The kids learn by working alongside the professor, as opposed to being talked down to or simply lectured to. And because of that they feel like they are really accomplishing something. All of this is done in such a subtle way that I had to sit down and watch it all the way through to figure out exactly why it is so effective. Simply put, when my 4 year old watches this, he sees that the kids are the ones accomplishing the goal and reaping the benefits and not just watching the grown-ups do everything fun and exciting. Once again, whoever created these DVD's knows how to get (and keep) the attention of preschoolers, which is a pretty tough thing to do.
Obviously, my 18 month old is too young to grasp the structure and objective of these DVD's, but he is just as entranced with them as my oldest, which says alot for a toddler just begining to speak is first coherent words. I am looking forward to seeing how quickly he starts putting the concepts together the way my 4 year old has.
My only dissapointment with these DVD's is that they didn't come out a year ago! Way to go, Leapfrog!!! I hope to see more educational DVD's in the near future.
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Summary: Amazingly effective
Review: My 3 yr. old son after 3-5 viewings was telling me the sounds of letters and beginning to guess what words started with which letter. I'm a big Leap frog fan, but this surpassed my expectations. Unlike the bus where similar sounds can get confusing, the video is clear and the "actions" that go along to teach the sounds are very understandable. I wish he would have had this about 6 months ago! I hope there are more videos in the works.
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Summary: excellent!
Review: "Santa" got this for my 2 1/2 year old daughter this year. She watched it non-stop for a week! It really taught her the sounds of letters and letter recognition! They have a little song for each letter and she sings them all of the time. During the past 3 weeks she has started to learn how to tell me what letter a word starts with and is now writing her letters! This would be a wonderful learning tool for any child!
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