Leap Frog - Letter Factory

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Starring: Leap Frog
Rated: G (General Audience)
Type: DVD
Studio: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 2003-12-09
Teaches young children letters, letter sounds and listening skills.
Genre: Children's Video
Rating: G
Release Date: 9-DEC-2003
Media Type: DVD

Contains errors! Needs improvement.
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.

Love Letter Factory!
My 2 year old has learned the letters! What can I say...this is a great DVD... Beware however....you might start singing along. The songs get stuck in your head!

Great Learning Tool
I bought this for my 3.5 year old after hearing about it from friends and reading so many great reviews.
My daughter loves it and she often asks to watch 'professor Quigley' over and over again. I have found her reciting the letters and sounds to herself before she goes to bed at night.
The reason why I didn't give this 5 stars is because of one thing. When teaching the L sound, it is not very clear and both my daughter and I hear 'O'. When we get to that part, she would ask me why are they saying 'O' when it's 'L'.
Other than that, I'd recommend it to all parents of preschoolers.

Daughter loved it
Great movie. And educational. Daughter loves it and parent's don't mind it. I would highly recommend it!

OK video but contains some phonics mistakes
This is a good video...NOT great as people seem to think. There are some grave mistakes, for example, the 'O' and the 'U' both seem to say 'Ah', the 'L' says 'Ul' and the 'R' says 'Er'.

Im distressed that my 2-year old sems to be learning the letter sounds incorrectly. Even when I try to correct the video, she seems to go with the sounds made on the video. Im kind of turned off by the Leap Frog company. How could they have let this kind of stuff fall through the cracks?