Meet the Letters
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Movie Reviews of Meet the Letters
Movie Review: Baby Einstein is entertainment - this is Learning!
Summary: 5 Stars
As working parents of a 3-year old, we often use the "TV babysitter" to get chores done, but felt guilty that even the most entertaining videos and DVDs have little long-term educational value for toddlers. "Meet the Letters" was just what we were looking for.
I will admit when we first viewed it, the repetition seemed boring (to us adults) and were afraid our daughter would not be engaged by the lack of dialogue. But the product is simply designed for children to recognize and reinforce the image and pronounciation of all letters. Not only does she absolutely love the characterzation of each letter, the results of our daughter's reading development were amazingly immediate.
Athough our daughter was already familiar with most of the alphabet, it was primarily just uppercase letters. And since most text is not written that way, she was reluctant to learn spelling with flash cards and preschool books that we own. After just a few viewings, her new-found familiarity with lowercase letters was finally put into context and gave her the confidence to tackle reading.
Now, she's understands that "letters make words" and says "that word begins with...", even though she still can't read most words. When she doodles and draws, she write "words" "just like her books do". The words are jibberish, but they include lowercase and tough letters like Q, g, b, d and p)
However, recently she showed us a drawing with "DADDY" and her name using both uppercase AND lower case letters for the first time. My wife and I each thought the other had shown her how to do it, but she did it on her own!
I've introduced "Meet the Letters" to our preschool administrators, to supplement the Barney, Dora and Dragon Tales videos the younger students occasionally watch, and hope to share with all of the parents who ask how we taught our daughter to sign all of her classroom artwork.
This DVD has become our "reward" or incentive to motivate her to behave, and as the other reviewer stated, this is the only baby gift we will be buying for new parents this year!
Movie Review: AWESOME!
Summary: 5 Stars
My 2 year old son got "Meet the Letters" for his birthday and he can't get enough of it. The first couple of times he watched it, he was almost jumping out of his seat to see what each letter was going to do. After only a few viewings he started yelling out each letter BEFORE the voice on the video said it. He knew every letter in about a week (both upper and lowercase). I watched it with him the first time and he immediately asked for it again. Since then he has watched it many times and now where ever we go, he points to letters and says their names. I like the fact that he is shown both upper and lowercase letters and that the only thing said is the name of each letter as it appears. Each letter starts in black and white, becomes colorful, then becomes a character. The process then reverses itself. Each scene ends with a black letter to reinforce the letter shape and name. It is suggested that you choose a different segment of the alphabet from the menu selections each time you watch, but he wants to watch the whole thing from beginning to end. He LOVES the part of the video where the letters all sing the alphabet song. I kept going back and playing it for him so that he could sing and dance, until I noticed that the song is one of the menu selections (and it loops)! This is the only gift that I will be giving for birthdays this year. I will feel great knowing how entertaining and highly educational it is!
I just have to come back to add to the review that I wrote a year ago. I recently began showing this to my 1 year old daughter and she loves it! She is so enthralled by the characters.
Movie Review: Easy Education!
Summary: 5 Stars
I love the idea of my children learning early, but I am too lazy to sit next to a child and teach him everything he needs to know. I would never force a child to watch an educational video that he hated, but if they like it- why not?
This video works wonders! My youngest (we bought it when he was 18 months) learned his letters after watching it about five times. He was thrilled- he started recognizing and naming all the letters he saw on signs, etc. (Trips to the grocery store became even more painful! Lots of letters!) Even now, a year later, he asks to watch it on occasion- even though we have moved on to Meet the Sight Words and Leap Frog Letter/ Words Factory.
After reading the reviews of Meet the Letters, I was skeptical. My boys have always liked TV- but they like action packed cartoons. I was pleasantly surprised with the reception of this video. The movie is very repetitive, but my youngest was able to focus on it quite well. My older boys (4 and 6 at time of purchase) found it boring after the first two viewings. They initially entertained themselves with deciphering what the cartoon had to do with each letter (we have never figured out the letter "O"), but after that goal was (almost) completed this video was met with groans. Now it is reserved for when big brothers are at school! It is not too annoying for the adults to listen to, because it is so monotonous that it is easily tuned out. Great for captive audience in the car while doing errands!
Movie Review: A Must Buy
Summary: 5 Stars
I bought this product on a whim -- Baby Einstein wasn't really holding my young toddler's attention, and I was looking for something educational for her to watch during those instances where I need to get things done around the house.
What a fortunate "accident". My 18-month old daughter now knows her letters, numbers and shapes (and we just got colors) thanks to these videos. As another reviewer noted, the really exciting part isn't just that she has learned to recognize these things on screen, but can identify them in the world around her as well! She gets so excited to call them out as we're driving down the street, and you can really see her love for learning developing as she's so proud of her knowledge.
The methodology used in the videos is exactly as described -- a simple and straightforward yet entertaining presentation. Personally, what I like about these videos is a very low "parent irritation" factor. I find the voices to be unintrusive, and they use great music -- lovely renditions of classic songs. All of this is very fortunate for me, as even though my daughter has mastered the material, she still loves watching them... she still chooses "Letters" over other favorites "Dora" and "Blues Clues" most of the time.
In sum, I can't recommend these videos highly enough (to the point that I was actually moved enough to do my first Amazon review!). They are now my standard gift to family and friends with children this age.
Movie Review: It's Amazing!!
Summary: 5 Stars
This could be one of the best investments I have ever made. My son is not even two yet, he is just now starting to talk. I got this for him for Christmas and now not even a month later he can recognize almost all his upper and lowercase letters. This product really lives up to it's claims, and I still can't believe it. He LOVES the video too! He gets this giant smile on his face when he yells out the letters, and he does this cute little dance to the song. When I first watched it I thought it was a bit boring and could not see it holding his interest, but he really loves it. They break the video up so youcan watch it in three different sections, you canstart at A, I, or R in the alphabet. I watch it with him because I think me next to him encouraging him helps to keep him focused. IF you watch it in sections, they are each about ten minutes long,so it doesn't take much time at all. I would suggest making it an every day ritual. It also has a part for tricky letters that are often mixed up such as d and b, and when they really start to know the letters youcan use the videos flash card feature. I wish I had this video with my older daughter. I really do, it would have given them such ahead start. His birthday is next month and I am excited about getting started on the other videos inthe series.