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Imserba Webstore - LeapFrog - Letter Factory (2009)
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List Price: $14.98
Our Price: $7.49
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Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Directed By: Roy Allen Smith
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Lions Gate
EAN: 0031398109280
Format: Animated
Label: Lions Gate
Manufacturer: Lions Gate
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Lions Gate
Region Code: 1
Release Date: 2009-05-12
Running Time: 35
Studio: Lions Gate
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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Editorial Reviews:
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Have Fun learning about letters and their sounds! LeapFrog characters spring to life in this engaging and educational DVD. Popular LeapFrog characters, Leap, Lily and Tad go on a wild adventure to the Letter Factory. Led by wacky Professor Quigley, Tad joins Js jumping on trampolines and Ks practicing karate kicks as new letters learn their sounds. Fun songs will have kids singing letter sounds in no time.
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Summary: Entertaining and Educational
Comment: My children (2 and 4) love to watch this video. For a while, it was all they wanted to watch. It taught my two year old all her letter sounds.
In the story, Tad visits all 26 letter rooms in the talking letter factory and learns what each letter looks like and what sound it makes. Each letter and sound is presented in a creative way. The video also has a catchy song for learning letter sounds.
The video helped teach my children the alphabet, and I've heard good things about it from friends, too. Leap Frog does a good job of making fun, yet educational toys.
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Summary: Great for my 2 yr. old
Comment: My daughter enjoys singing to this DVD, and I love that she can recognize the letters and make the sounds.
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Summary: Great video - a few issues
Comment: My son received this video as a gift when he was 9 months old. He is now 18 months as still loves it. For him, it is very engaging - he loves music and he seems to like the repetitive letter-sound song. As he has gotten older, he tries more and more to imitate the sounds he hears when the characters enter each room. He also calls out the names of things he sees in each room. Overall, I think this is a decent video for exposing young children to letters and sounds in isolation.
There are a few things about this video that "irk" me. I have a strong background in linguistics and early reading and the video presents some sounds for letters that are not completely accurate. Specifically, it is important when teaching the sounds of letters in isolation not to add vowels sounds to the consonant sounds. For the letter L the video presents the sound as ULL with the U emphasized prior to the L sound. This is very inaccurate - we don't say ULOLIPOP, etc. Also, for the letter Q the sound is presented as QWA. I find this very frustrating because Q makes a K sound, and it is only Q with U that makes the QWA sound. I am fully aware of the common tradition in education to teach students the Q sound with the U attached. Most of these people argue that students should be taught QU together because "Q is always followed by U". This is not true. While there are very few words that start with Q and are not followed by U - they do exist (QAT, etc.)!
Having said this, even with these few problems, I have yet to find a video that presents letter-sound associations in isolation that does it as well as this video.
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Summary: perfect for my classroom
Comment: I needed something to help my special needs students to retain information for letter/sound association. This video is the perfect supplement to their classroom activities. The music and format of the video is appropriate for my preK and K students. And, when a lesson is put to music, the students appear to retain the information. They are making letter/sound associaton faster than expected. Great purchase.
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Summary: Awesome!
Comment: I bought this DVD for my two year old. I am a former teacher, now stay at home mom to two children. This DVD is so great. My two year knows ALL his letter sounds! It keeps his attention and he asks for this DVD all the time. This one is better than "Go To School".
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