LeapFrog: Letter Factory
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Movie Reviews of LeapFrog: Letter Factory
Movie Review: Great Learning Tool for Kids!
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this when my daughter is close to 2 year old. She loves the character especially TAD that it makes her want to do what Tad is doing. Before showing this video, she have an alphabet rubber mat and we were showing her flash cards or letters with animal pictures. She quickly learned the animal sounds but not the letters. When we showed this video to her, she quickly learned the letter sounds in less than a week then she started to recognize all the letters in the alphabet. In two weeks time she only gets confused with E and F and also with l and I but soon realized the difference.
We let her play with her 4 year old and 5 year old cousin during one of our family gathering, the game is to go on top of the letter on her rubber mat. My then 2 1/2 year old was able to compete with her cousins sometimes getting to the letter before any of her older cousins does.
She also learned how put the letter together using the next video "Talking Words Factory". At 3 years old she can now read 3 letter word by putting all the letter sound together but the only thing is that the video only put emphasis on Capital Letters. Her mat is also capital letters and I also write in all CAPS. So she can read the word BAT but not the word bat or Bat. We will now need to show her the lower case equivalent. This will be great if Leap Frog will make this adjustment or make another video with lower case for the next generation of children who will be watching these videos.
Movie Review: Don't wait! Even young viewers can benefit from this movie!
Summary: 5 Stars
I expected my 3-year-old son to enjoy this show and learn from it (which he does), but I didn't expect my 15-month-old son to be equally riveted. The plot progresses by repeating a course of events for each letter: the characters enter a letter training room where the anthropomorphized letters are engaging in an activity that corresponds to their sound (the letter 'R' is making the 'rrrrrr' sound and Racing around a track), the letter is drawn on a small chalkboard (which you can purchase cheaply at any craft store so your child can draw along with the `professor'), and there is a song, "The 'A' says, 'ahhh'..." that highlights the sound of each letter. This sequence repeats for each letter, but the there is also a larger storyline that overarches the introduction to the letter sounds. Quite wonderful!!
My 3-year-old loves to watch the movie and then act it out. Just the other day, he wanted to play the part of the professor, so he sang the song for each letter, "The `B' says...". He would pause, expecting me to fill in the blank with the correct sound. Much to my surprise (and delight), my 15-month-old piped in with the correct sound for each letter!! I didn't expect this dvd to be that effective!
If you are going to watch movies with your young ones, I highly recommend this one.
Only one criticism: unlike some other Leapfrog products, like the Imagination Desk, this movie only covers a single sound for each letter. The long vowel sounds and the soft consonant sounds are left out.
Movie Review: This DVD is truly AMAZING!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I got the Letter Factory DVD for my 17 month old daughter in February. She looked completely mesmerized since the first time we played it to her. She would laugh and squeal and bounce and imitate the sounds, and request to watch it everyday. After about a month, one day when we were idle in the car, I thought I would play a game by asking her if she knew " A says ...." what...
She knew... and I kept going.
We stopped at "W"! She knew every sound from A to W! I asked her again at random order and she knew everyone except X, Y, and Z. She was only 18 months old and I never taught her phonics except playing her the DVD. This was a huge surprise. After that I noticed she would try to pronouce words that are around her.. labels... books... even signs and ads on the street. This DVD has provided a wonderful tool for me to teach our little toddler new words, and for her to say them properly. For instance, she's been saying CAR for a long time, but she used to pronouce it as "GAR". After I knew that she had learnt "C" says "Ca". I used that to teach her the correct pronounciation of CAR. Now she can say it crisp and clear every single time.
I have started showing her the Talking Word Factory and she loves it, too.
I must commend Leapfrog for putting out such a marvellous product, and would recommend it to all parents with young children.
Movie Review: 22 Month Old Now Knows Letters And Sounds By Sight
Summary: 5 Stars
I was a first grade teacher before my son was born, so I have a pretty good handle on teaching letter sounds, etc. I'm all about having children learn from many different angles, so thought this video would be a great addition to our learning routine. Actually, we hadn't really done much with the alphabet when we got this (at around 20 months), so this was his first introduction to the alphabet other than singing the alphabet song and a few flash card sessions.
Much to my surprise, within a few times of viewing this video my son was able to say all his letter sounds. After around 2 months of off and on viewing, he can now say all of the letter sounds just by seeing the letter. What's more impressive is that he can do this out of order, and he is beginning to decode words using the sounds! This is something that many kindergartners are just learning.
Of course, I think my son is brilliant (lol! Doesn't every mom?) but I'm more than happy to announce that this video is extremely well done, and I don't think that my son would be as far along without it, despite my teaching background.
When you use this video (and the others in the series, which we will start in on shortly) in conjunction with flash cards, teachable moments around the home/outside the home, etc...your child will be well prepared for school.
Go leapfrog!
Movie Review: Teaches letters and phonics fast!
Summary: 5 Stars
This is the first review I've ever written for Amazon, but I had to let other parents know about this fantastic DVD. We've had it for about 3 weeks and already my 3 year old not only knows all the letters (lowercase and uppercase) by sight and sound, but she can also WRITE them (capitals only). Now, where ever we go, she says, "Look mommy, letters!" And she tells me their names and sounds. She's also picking up books and sounding out the letters she sees. Almost all of these milestones happened since we have had this DVD. I normally prefer to teach her myself, but in this case, the Letter Factory DVD has been able to teach her in 3 weeks what I've been trying to teach her for the last 3 months. Even my 17 month old child repeats the letter sounds and can recognize a few letters when she sees them (she gives their sound).
We also have the Talking Words Factory DVD which builds upon the Letter Factory. It introduces simple words and letter blends. Although the topic of letter blends seems to be a little incomplete, this video still does a great job of teaching phonics to build words. We've only seen it a couple of times but my 3 year old already is noticing word blends and sounds them out. I just can't say enough good things about these products. I HIGHLY recommend them to any parent who wants to teach their child letters and phonics.