 
Leap Frog - Letter Factory
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The video is good and ready to be resold or switched with the number factory or something more challenging.
FMLyons
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Excellent for PreK, Kindergarten and 1st Grade students. Students learn while they are motivated and entertained.
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I am using this Letter Factory DVD for my special needs students. It is really helping them to make the letter sounds and remember the letters of the alphabet by using several learning strengths at the same time (visual, auditory, and kinesthetic). I would recommend this DVD highly, especially for children with learning disabilities or developmental delays.Leap Frog - Letter Factory
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What an engaging, educational product this is! I've taken this dvd on many long road trips and my daughter never tires. Within TWO WEEKS, she identified with all the letters. Not simply the sounds but she knows what each and every letter is. I was blown away.
The only negative I can think of is for the "w" letter, the letter speaks in slang with "waz happenin' dude!" (I'm no fan of the word "dude"!) In another clip, the professor was tasting popcorn and commented that it needed salt. As a result, in a later scene, the student frog mentioned salt, obviously having learned "salt" is a treat. With childhood obesity on the rise, I'm not sure it's too keen promoting salt! But by no means would this land my review one less star.
I can't rave enough of this product. My review title says it all. I have spread word among playground chatter and to all my parent friends. This is not to be passed up. If your child doesn't know the alphabet, this dvd will surely teach them. The Leap Frog Fridge Phonics are a great accompaniment to it.
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I suspect that a lot of the parents who gave this video a good review did not watch ALL of it with their child. The video is visually entertaining and fun, but the spoken part needs to be redone. It simply is incorrect about how to pronounce some of the letters. L shouldn`t be pronounced ``Uhl`` but they say it that way over and over, and the R shouldn`t be said ``er`` and so on. Also, in every case, only the short vowel sounds are taught, A as in apple, not A as in ate. When I taught phonics, we told kids that every vowel says its name, plus another sound. It isn`t hard to teach that, and it is really important. Worst of all, few examples are given of how the letters actually sound in words. For example, they show us a letter M saying ``m m`` but they don`t bother to say a single M word. My 3 year old loves watching the video and playing the little game that comes with it, but I wish it were better.
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