Leap Frog - Learn to Read at the Storybook Factory (2005)
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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…)
May 28th, 2009 at 12:12 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Wonderful Learning Tool
This video is just another in the Leap Frog’s ingenious series dedicated to helping young children to master the sounds of letters, the use of letters in words, and the ability to…
May 28th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
A Classic
Personally, I got the entire DVD boxset. However this has got to be my favorite of the bunch. Not only it’s the only story in the entire boxset where Dot has speaking roles (in…
May 28th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
Leap Frog helps my son read! He is only 4.
Learn to read video by Leap Frog is great. I wish it got a little more into the WORDS but it is a fun video with learning incorporated.
May 28th, 2009 at 10:36 pm
1.0 out of 5 stars
going in the trash
If you don’t mind your kids watching men dress like girls for theater then this may not be bad for you. I know that in the old days that is how they did things.
May 29th, 2009 at 4:55 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Incredible
It’s amazing how my daughter 30months is learning now with it. I bought together 3 of them: Letters, Words and Reading factory and since then it’s a non stop, she keeps watching…
May 29th, 2009 at 9:39 am
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent DVD!!! Have 3 yr old
My son loves this DVD. He is 3 and can only read certain words. But this video helped him understand how sentences, stories flow.
May 29th, 2009 at 10:09 am
3.0 out of 5 stars
Learn to read
Not as great as the Word and Letter Factory but the song teaching Punctuation is definitely a great one.
May 29th, 2009 at 2:56 pm
5.0 out of 5 stars
FANTASTIC!!!!
I bought the whole set of these dvd’s…They are fantastic!!
They really help your child to read..
May 29th, 2009 at 8:38 pm
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Awesome video!
All the Leap Frog videos are wonderful! We have all of them and this is definitely a favorite. Ideas like plot, setting, characters and chunking are used.
May 30th, 2009 at 4:29 am
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Not good reading- One star rating
This is just awful, first of all, Tad, is reading too quickly for someone who went from learning three letter words, secondly, his pronunciation is incorrect, particularly of the…