I bought Leaps Talking Word Factory for my 4 1/2 year old son who has been asking me to teach him how to read. He has watched the video everyday since Christmas and was asking me if I knew what vowels were because he was going to tell me. He loves it and can even recognize words such as "cat" that were taught in the movie. After your child is familiar with the alphabet and the letter sounds then this video is great to teach them putting the letter sounds together. I would also recommend Leapfrog: "Letter Factory" as a precursor to "Talking Words Factory".
I bought the LeapFrog dvd for my 3 year old son. He loves the movie! He watches it all the time. The movie is fun to watch. It is not a boring educational film. My older boys enjoy it as well. I would highly recommend this movie.
I have the whole set of dvds and they are wonderful my son started reading words after only watching these a few times!He is 5. I have him pick one everyday to watch and it is amazing how fast he picked it up!!!
When I saw this available I just had to have it. I am a avon representative. My customer wanted this item very badly so when I saw this on Ebay for sale I purchased it for resale as Avon could not supply my order for my customer. I received this item right away, nicely packaged and brand new in its original cellophane wrapping. I am very satisfied with this purchase and elated at what Ebay has to offer when all else fails.
My four year old starting watching these when he was almost two. By the time he was three he was saying the whole alphabet and sounding out all the letters. I was telling a friend of mine, a high school teacher with a grandchild, and we purchased some for her... She loves it..
This is an excellent source for phonics for little ones! Many friends of mine have utilized this DVD as well, and we have all see tremendous growth in the areas of letter recognition, verbalizing and pronouncing letters and their sounds, and use of the basics to incoporate into making words. The ages of the children I know that are successfully using this DVD are 18 months tho three years of age.
I was skeptical about these learning products and thought that most of these types of items were geared towards parents sense of being a good parent and that they really did't impact children. I was wrong. My 3 year old loves this DVD and sings along with it. Within a week he was sounding out letters and singing the alphabet song. His interest in the topics was clear when he started to play with letters toys he has and when he would recite the letters and sounds. A really great teaching aid!