World Famous Comics: Leap Frog - Learn to Read at the Storybook Factory
Leap Frog - Learn to Read at the Storybook Factory
By: LeapFrog Average Rating: Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC Number of Items: 1 Region Code: 1 Release Date: September 20, 2005 Running Time: 35 minutes Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Amazon.com: Reading is simply putting words together to discover a story. When Mr. Websley glimpses Tad and his friends rehearsing "The Three Little Pigs," he reminisces about favorite childhood stories and is struck with an idea for a new invention--a talking storybook. Frog and Quigley are called to construct a new factory and Tad and his friends begin to rehearse in earnest since they're slated to be the stars of the book. Problem is, Tad has been cast as the narrator, but he doesn't know how to read. Professor Quigley and Leap reassure Tad that he already knows everything he needs to know to be a successful reader: he learned his letters and the sounds they make in the Letter Factory and that sounds combine to make words in the Talking Words Factory. All that's left is to combine the words to make a story. Tad learns some new tricks like "chunking" words together to sound like talking and that punctuation markings like commas and periods help with inflection. In no time, Tad is reading fluently and it looks like the talking storybook will be ready right on schedule. Viewers age 4 to 6 will develop their reading and comprehension skills right along with Tad thanks to on-screen highlighted text. DVD extras include a read-along storybook of a somewhat untraditional version of "The Three Little Pigs" that can be played with or without a voice track and five sing-along songs. --Tami Horiuchi
Highly recomended ^ This dvd is absolutely amazing. My five year old watched it so many times. She even taught herself how to read. i highly recommend this product.
We love LeapFrog! ^ We love the LeapFrog movies. They are both educational and entertaining. Thanks to LeapFrog, my daughter has learned phonics and basic reading skills at 2yo!
It is okay ^ We have the Letter Factory which we love. I have also seen Word Factory which was also very good. This one isn't quite at the same level. This one basically teaches them what commas, periods, question marks, and exclamation marks mean. Also some of the characters voices are different.
Love it! ^ I love this video, because my baby enjoying watching it, she always repeated saying about 3 little pigs and a wolf.
Title "Learn to Read" may be misleading --- depending on age group ^ This is a decent video but not essential. Now, the Letter Factory is definitely a must-have. My son is almost 4 yrs old and has been moved to the "Early Reading Program" at his preschool even though his age group is typically in Phonics first, then upon an assessment of readiness, they are moved to reading. He knew all his letters by 18 months old and knew the sounds of each letter by 3. If you are looking to help your child learn letters, you should definitely get the Letter Factory. It's amazing and fun to watch. My son wanted to watch that more than the Baby Einsteins (other than Baby Macdonald).
If you are wanting your child to read by 3 or 4, then this video is not going to help in my opinion. It may possibly help for an older age group -- If anything, it helps get children almost ready to read in the right mind-set and tries to make it fun. My son watched it a few times but wasn't hooked on it. One thing that I didn't like is that the video only uses capital letters and that is not helpful when any book you pick up is going to have both upper and lower case letters. If the child only sees words with all capital letters, than this is not going to help with reading a real beginner book like "cat in the hat". The lower case letters are going to be foreign.
From my internet research, children that can read at age 3 are usually the ones that learned by word-recognition/memory (i.e. not actually reading). Like my son recognizes the word "STOP" because its on all the stop signs, it's background is always red, and in the same shape.
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