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Summary: Exceeds ANY of the Leap Pad toys which are all excellent!
Review: My daughter (4) loved "The Letter Factory" and immediately requested "Talking Words Factory". After just a few times of watching this video, we pulled out the BOB books and discovered that she was reading! She knew her vowels, their role in words, and more importantly how to sound out words - one letter at a time, and then 'smash' them together. This video is a MUST to those of you who love watching the light bulbs come on as children enter into the world of READING. I've even caught her with pen and paper WRITING the words down as they are displayed on the screen. BRAVO, to the creative team behind this video. You and your talents are very much appreciated.
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Summary: WOW
Review: My daughter was given the Talking Words Factory for Christmas. She is only 3 and was very into it. She watched it day after day. I then saw the Letter Factory and she was hooked on it as well.
After about three weeks watching both she is now saying the entire alphabet and telling us what the letters sound like. She is also writing certain letters on paper for us to see.
I highly recommed this to any parent. It's great. I hope they soon come out with flash cards for the kids like the ones they are using the the movie.
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Summary: A hit with my 3 &4 yr olds.
Review: My kids love this tape! I'm pleased with it's educational value. However, I think kids (at this age) are going to need to watch it repeatedly before much of the content sinks in. The whole word factory theme reminded me of Willy Wonkas' chocolate factory minus the fun realism. This cartoon is typical of Saturday morning cheesy animation. My kids certainly don't seem to care in the least. The story line focuses on Tad wanting to fill out a form to nominate his Dad as the best and he needs to learn how to spell the words he wishes to put on his form. The words that are covered are almost all basic and ryhming three letter ones. Words ending in "at", "in", "ig", "an", and "ad". Also, "st" is illustrated in "stop" and then in "best". Vowels are named and described as "sticky" letters which are the "glue" to hold other letters together to make words. I'm disappointed in the shallow and "un"-catchy jingles throughout the story line. A few well written lyrics with catchy jingles could have made this tape so much more enjoyable and memorable. My kids strong interest in this tape did make me go buy The Letter Factory. I like that these tapes are only 35 minutes long, it helps with (time) limit setting for TV viewing.
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Summary: Love this DVD
Review: My son is 3.5 yrs old and we just bought this DVD for him. He and our 2 y/o daughter love to watch it. But the amazing thing is that after only one week, my son knows all the letter sounds and can tell them to you on demand all mixed up. And, my 2/yo likes to repeat the sounds after my son when we sing a song w/ them. There's only about 3 sounds she has trouble making, other than that, she's learning and doesn't even know it! Highly, highly recommend this DVD. I actually had four friends last night say that have to buy this DVD for their 4.5 & 5-y/o kids after hearing my son do all his letter sounds for them!
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Summary: Best DVD so far found
Review: My son who is 3 1/2 loves this DVD the moment he started watching it. He has started reading already and loves the songs. My husband who is very anti-media for teaching thinks this DVD is great and sees the progress that my son has made by watching it. Highly recommended for teaching word and letter sounds and the start to reading for toddlers.
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Summary: My 22-month knows all her letter sounds!
Review: Not only does this entertain my four kids (ages 22 months to 6 1/2 years), it reviews old knowledge for the older ones and helps instill it for the little two. We mostly got it for our 3-year old, and were stunned when our little toddler proved herself able to say the sounds for all the letters on demand! Our kids now go around pretending to be letters. The 3-year old now knows the letter sounds and can blend words together for the first time ever--he'll be starting to read "Bob Books" in a few months! Part of the DVD's effectiveness comes from the way it manages to hit four of Gardner's multiple intelligences. As a public school teacher and as a homeschooling dad, I heartily recommend this program, as well as the first volume, "Letter Factory." I wish there were a volume 3!
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Summary: great stuff
Review: other the annoying voices, i actually enjoy seeing my boys watching this video, it is a keeper!
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Summary: leap frog word factory and letter factory
Review: Our 2 1/2 year old grandson watched word factory and began sounding out the "AT" words (mat, cat,fat,etc.) before the voice on the video said the word.The videos are top-notch.I would recommend them for young toddlers.The videos are vivid in color and very interactive.
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Summary: The DVD includes a great game!
Review: The PS2 is a great way to let you your child take advantage of the letter game on this dvd. You can play the game with the dvd remote, but my son kept messing up the settings on the dvd player. Since the PS2 is very capable of playing dvds it seemed like a good idea to play the dvd in the PS2 and let him use the game controller. The game is very good. It displays all of the letters and tells them a sound. Then they try and find the correct letter that goes with the sound they just heard. The most frustrating one for us is the "m" and "n" sounds, becuase they sound very much the same. The game lets them try twice, and if they don't find the correct letter it plays the section of the movie that helps them remember which letter makes the sound they were hearing. Overall, the game (AND THE MOVIE) are excellent, and I'm extremely happy! I strongly think that this is my all time favorite leap frog product! It taught my son a lot about PHONICS in 2 days! Prior to this video we use to spend 2 days on trying to learn just one letter! This movie makes learning phonics FUN for kids, and makes me one very happy parent!
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Summary: Another fabulous teaching video from leapfrog (buy them all!
Review: This is a great, great video. It's really nice how leapfrog introduces preschoolers to phonics and basic word structure. It's hard to understand if they don't already know the alphabet though, obviously, but it teaches so many fabulous things that I couldn't believe how fast my little one learned to put words together. I bought this in the gift set with the Letter Factory DVD and we have just worn them out. Your child won't even realize how much they're learning with these DVDs and they're worth so much more than what you're paying for them here. Grab them for every preschooler you know - I buying the math one now and I can't wait to see the look on my little one's face when he gets to watch another one of his "frog" movies! Thanks Leapfrog!
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