When Mr. Websley is accidentally silenced by the Silent E Machine, Leap, Lily, and Tad must journey through the Complex Word Complex to build the code words needed to return his voice. Guided only by the “Absent Professor Device,” the kids learn how to build the complex words needed to solve the code and save the day. Humorous songs add to the fun and help teach the rules for advanced word building.
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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 (more…)
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Building words is an exciting and empowering experience for young children (and frogs) who have mastered individual letters and their sounds. When young Tad wants to nominate his Dad for a “Best Dad” contest he asks his brother Leap and sister Lily for some help filling out the application. The three young frogs go see Professor Quigley at their Father’s Talking Word Factory for a little instruction and get to watch the “Sticky-ick-o-rama” and the “Word Whammer” machines at work. Tad quickly discovers that vowels act as the glue that sticks letters together and then learns to combine individual letter sounds to make three-letter words, use common ending sounds to create rhyming words, and blend letter sounds to make even longer rhyming words. Phonemic awareness, vocabulary building, and rhyming are entertaining and fun thanks to familiar Leap Pad characters, colorful animation, and short songs. An interactive word game challenges young viewers (more…)
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Tad, Leap, and Lily hop from the pages of the amazingly popular Leap Pad learning toys onto the television screen in this attention grabbing phonics program. Tad’s disappointment at being unable to help his family with an important presentation at the letter factory quickly turns to excitement when he meets Professor Quigley and joins each of the letters of the alphabet in their own fun-filled classroom devoted to learning their unique sound. Tad practices karate kicks with the k’s, digs the vibes with the cool cat d’s drumming on the bongos, and snores peacefully with the z’s while learning to recognize each letter and the sound it makes. A catchy, fun song serves as a summation of each letter’s “class” and entices even the most reluctant of toddlers (and their parents) to sing each letter’s sound. An interactive game follows the program and gives children a chance to practice their newfound skills of recognizing letters and their sounds. Consumers expect (more…)
