LeapFrog: Letter Factory
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Movie Reviews of LeapFrog: Letter Factory
Movie Review: Amazing What This Movie Teaches & The Fun Kids Have Learning From It!!
Summary: 5 Stars
My husband and I purchased this movie, and gradually the others in the series, for our two and a half year old son. He soon asked to watch "Tad Letter Factory" just about everyday, at least once. Seeing his enthusiasm after a couple of days of requests to watch it, I decided to start working with him on his phonics sounds with his Leap Frog Fridge Phonics magnetic letters and was surprised to witness that MY TWO-AND-A-HALF-YEAR-OLD KNEW EVERY PHONICS SOUND FOR ALL TWENTY-SIX LETTERS of the alphabet!! I then quizzed our son in front of his Daddy so that he could witness what I just had. Sure enough, he was amazed at what he had learned without us working with him yet!! Months later, he still asks to watch "Letter Factory" and walks around singing the "the ____ says _____" song from the movie, retaining each letter name and vowel sound. We frequently catch him sounding out letters on signs and places all around us (beginning reading), and all at age 2!! I cannot recommend this movie enough to every parent interested in teaching their child letter names and phonics sounds!! Our son now watches the LeapFrog Word Factory & Code Word Caper and we are now looking into the Leapster Letter Factory Cartridge, hoping to engage him even more toward a jumpstart on a lifetime love of reading!!Movie Review: Really works!! Great gift idea!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Everyone thought my 28 month old was a genius - he knew all of his letters, AND the sounds they made!! Once I had him with me when I stopped by my daughter's kindergarten class, and he waltzed in there and started naming the letters in words around the room and the kids just stared at him like he was an alien. That was pretty funny.
Anyway, I really credit all that to this DVD, because other than a few readings of "Chicka Chicka Boom Boom", I didn't have the time or desire to push academics or pull out flash cards.
For some reason, kids really respond to this DVD. I have recommended it to several friends - some with toddlers, and another with a kindergartener who was having trouble with letter recognition. All of them made significant progress towards mastery of letters and sounds.
Personally I can't really figure it out - the video is almost annoying, with its high pitched cutsie voices, bland graphics, big-eyed frogs, and silly songs. But kids, particularly toddlers, don't see it that way.
BTW, all of the Leap Frog videos are good - Math Factory, Word Factory, and Complex Word Factory. Putting in these videos is a guilt free way to grab 30 minutes to fold laundry or get dinner on the table.
Movie Review: A hit with my 3-year-olds
Summary: 5 Stars
My 3.5-year-old twins love this video and request it several times a week. They both recognized all their letters (usually upper and lower case) before seeing this video, so I have no idea whether it helps with that. But neither of them had made the connection between a letter and a sound -- they were learning how to recognize some words strictly by memorization -- and this video has made that concept click for them. Now they see a C and say "The C says 'kuh'!"
Some reviewers complained that the letter sounds are "incorrect." I thought this too at first, but this is only true if you're focusing on the letter's NAME. For instance, we say L as "el." The video says "ul." But if you're trying to sound out the word "left," does it start with "el"? No, it start with "ul." Same for O -- we call it "oh," but in many words starting with O, the sound is actually "ah": octopus, on, off, etc.
I also don't mind that it only teaches one sound for each letter. There is plenty of time for small children to learn the marvelous complexities of English. This video teaches a very beginning-level phonics, which is perfect for kids who more or less know what letters are and what they're for, but need to make the connection between letters and sounds.
Movie Review: After 2 wks my 2.5 yo knows his letters and their sounds!!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've bought everything.. DVD's, books, games anything to help my son learn his letters. The thing I like about this DVD that's different from the other learning DVD's is that it's set up to look like a real cartoon, not just jumping to A IS FOR APPLE, B IS FOR BUTTERFLY etc. I was skeptical about buying it since none of the other DVD's have worked, nor have the hundreds of alphabet books we own, so I just went ahead and bought the letter factory, talking words factory and word factory 2 along with math circus (wich is nowhere NEAR as good as the other 3). After 1 week of watching this video once a day he learned alot of the alphabet and the letter sounds. As of now, 2wks after purchasing it, he knows all but 4 letters by sight. I also bought the letter factory game to go along with the DVD and to give him time away from TV while still learning his alphabet and the letter sounds. The game is great because it's basic enough for a 2yo to play it but it also has 2 levels for more advance play. On level one you have to find the card color and on level 2 you have to find the actual letter. I HIGHLY recommend this movie AND the letter factory game to go along with it (Kohls.com has an exclusive game tin that I like better than the cardboard box).Movie Review: Letter Factory is fabulous!
Summary: 5 Stars
After the nearly 250 reviews that have been posted for this DVD, I'm sure I'm not stating anything new. However, I have been so pleased with this purchase I just had to comment! My two and a half year old daughter has had this video for less than two weeks and has made tremendous strides with her efforts to verbalize all the letters and their sounds. She has a minor articulation delay, so this is something that we've been working on for the past several months. Since we brought this DVD home, she has shown much more interest in her "ABC's" and asks to watch the video daily. We have a couple of other Leap Frog products that reinforce the same letter/letter-sound phonetic philosophy, but for some reason this video has been the thing that has captured her interest the most. As a result, she has become much more interested in the other toys (flash cards, refidgerator magnets, etc...) since her exposure to this video. I must say, as far as the video itself is concerned, it is truly one of the most clever introductions to phonics that I've ever seen. (Our speech therapist thought so as well.) But the best part has been hearing my daughter -- unprompted -- sing the song for each letter and make the appropriate sounds!