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Summary: This is a Winner Your Child Will Watch
Review: I've never been this exciting about a children's video. This one is truely a gem. The video teaches your child the letter sounds in a fun, captivating way. The video really isolates the letter sounds so your child learns the sound and not just a word associated with the sound. Not only that, but your child will learn to say the letter sounds with CONFIDENCE. It is truly amazing and the learning is SO easy. Leapfrog definitely has a winnner here! On a personal note, since watching the video (more than once of course), my 4 1/2 year daughter learned all her letter sounds and coupled with the Talking Words Factory is now sounding out words. Hope Leapfrog comes out with more videos (i.e. long vowels, blends etc) - I'll be the first in line to buy them!
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Summary: Awesome video
Review: My 2 year old loves this video. He was mesmorized the first time he saw it and insisted on watching it 3 times in a row. He already knew all of his letters, but didn't know the sounds yet. This video does a great job of teaching the sounds. Along with the catchy songs, each letter does something that helps them remember the sound. I can't wait to check out Leapfrog Talking Word Factory next.
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Summary: Fun but incomplete.
Review: I have a two and a three year old who love this video and ask for it all of the time. I love how it teaches letter recognition and associates the sounds with the pictures. However, I have a big problem with the fact that it only teaches one sound for each letter. Of course there are many letters that have more than one sound. I am afraid this will cause problems later when my kids are learning to read.
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Summary: Great learning tool!
Review: My daughter LOVES this video. She is 25 months now and can already identify most of the letters of the alphabet and if you ask her what sound a letter makes she can tell you for almost all of the letters. She really has picked up a lot from watching this along with us working with her as well. I highly recommend it!
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Summary: Great Video! Very Educational!
Review: We purchased this video for our 3 yr. old preschooler for Christmas, so we've only had it for a week... but all I have to say is WOW! I've been spending a lot of time in the last few months teaching my son his letters. He really only seemed to "get" a few of them. After watching this video a few times, he now identifies most of the letters!
The video introduces each letter by taking Tad into each letter's "room" where the letter is practicing making its sound. For example, the A's are scared by a silly monster and yell "Aaaahh". They give letters names like "tap dancing T" and "karate kicking K" which help children to remember the sound leach letter makes. My son really enjoys the video and asks to watch it quite often.
I bought this video in addition to the Leap Frog magnetic refrigerator letters--and both items reinforce one another and the concept of letter recognition and letter sounds. As a mother of a preschooler and an elementary school teacher, I highly recommend this video. I think it's an excellent tool for teaching preschoolers to recognize the letters of the alphabet and their sounds.
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Summary: Last Resort
Review: I have tried everything to get my energetic four-year-old started reading. He knew letters, but I couldn't find anything to get him beyond that. He loves playing with his leap pad, and he also loves watching movies, so I picked up this video and he was telling us what sounds the letters made almost immediately. It's true that they only teach one sound per letter, but I feel this is less confusing. Even with one sound per letter, they can still assemble simple words by sounding them out. Both of my boys watch this video over and over, as well as the Talking Words Factory video, and now not only is the four-year-old starting to put sounds together to make words, but the two-year-old is learning the letter sounds. The animation and the sonds keep the kids engaged, and each letter has a special trick to help the kids remember their sound. I find the older one pantomiming each function while he tries to connect sounds. We've tried other videos and have been less successful. I'd recommend this video even if your child does not know the alphabet yet, because it teaches the names of the letters along with the sounds.
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Summary: Awsome video
Review: What a great learning video. My daughter loves this movie and has learned nearly all her letters and the sounds they make after only watching it a handful of times (we've only had it for under a month). She is only 2 1/2 and tries to sound out everything now. She asks for the Letter Factory often and I don't feel as "guilty" letting her watch this compared to other tv programs or movies. Great choice.
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Summary: Learning made fun and easy!
Review: This is by far the best DVD I have bought for my 2 1/2 year old son. He is always asking to "Watch ABCs" He loves it. But most importantly, he's learning. Letter Factory makes it easy for toddlers and preschoolers to associate the letters with the sounds. Yesterday we were playing with his letter magnets. I was so surprised when he was naming the letters as he put them on the refrigerator and even more surprised when he told me what sound some of them made!! I can't wait to buy the word dvd!!
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Summary: Clever system
Review: This video is the cleverest, most entertaining way of teaching phonics I have seen yet. Although I'm not a great fan of the Leap Frog graphics, they do have a catchy way of making you remember all the sounds. I think my three year eight month old son pretty much memorized all the sounds after watching the video just three or four times. We followed up with the Word Factory, so now he understands the concept of letters combining phonetically to make words. It's not one of his favorite videos, but I think that he already learned the lessons to be learned, so it was money well spent.
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Summary: An excellent video for preschoolers
Review: We love this video. We borrowed it from the library for 1 week and my 2 year old and 3 1/2 year old watched it over and over. I thought a week would be enough, but my girls don't want to give it back, so we are going to buy one. I was very surprized to here them repeating the letters and their sounds after the first time they watched it. I also have a one year old who watches it and has started making a few of the letter sounds. The only other movies my kids enjoy watching this much are the Dora ones and the Cookie Monster's Best Bites, and they are not nearly as educational. I don't like my girls to watch a lot of TV, but this movie gives me a break, makes them happy, and helps them learn all the letters and sounds in a fun way. It also encourages my daughter to use her Leap Pad Phonics book 1 which teaches the letters and sounds with the same songs as in the movie. I think this movie is great and I hope they make more.
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