Meet the Phonics - Letter Sounds DVD

Let me start off by saying I'm a mom of 5 my oldest is 5 years old and youngest is 21 months we watch this video Monday thru Friday on our way to daycare then to school so we watch it for about a good 30 minutes each day then we repeat my children love this video and will pick it over an actual movie With this being said how the kids have progressed and learned since we got this video is amazing within a month my older kids can almost get every sound without someone saying it and for my two youngest they have been able to pick up on some already I am totally recommending this for your children by the way very catchy songs

My son loves it! He's 2 years old, and while some parts of the DVD are a bit advanced for him, like when children put words together, he will get there eventually. Right now, he's not interested in that section. However, he really enjoys the phonics songs, which are effective for teaching phonics sounds to young children.

My ABC obsessed child loves this series! It is annoying for adults but the repetitiveness of the series taught both of my kids quickly. I have bought 2 different sets for our family and have bought multiple sets as gifts. I would definitely recommend this product and their whole series. Every video that my kids were exposed to, they learned the concept within a week or 2. Their videos Meet the Diagraphs and Meet the Blends taught me a lot and my kids teach others (even other adults) because of it. Buy it and use it. It takes little to no effort on the parents part but we had fun interacting as well.

As a douceur to convince my daughter(31m) to start blending C-V-C words, I've cracked open my wallet and loaded Preschool Prep's "Meet the Phonics: Letter Sounds" onto our Kindle Fire. Let me tell you, as somebody who has turned green from watching Leap Frog videos about 100 times, and who can sing the "Rusty and Rosie" songs by heart, "Meet the Phonics" is a nice change of pace! That being said, I don't think that "Meet the Phonics" would make the best starter video for a young learner because it introduces a lot of information very quickly. Conceptually, "Meet the Phonics" teaches material covered in Leap Frog's "Letter Factory", "Talking Words Factory", and "Talking Words Factor Two", all put together. What is really interesting to me as a parent, is right in the middle of "Meet the Phonics" when they start showing a slot machine that blends C-V-C words, My two year old starts to immediately lose interest and starts wildly touching the screen trying to change the Kindle over to something else. This is proof yet again that she is still not ready to blend... Nevertheless, this video is still a great pick.

My 1 year loves this video. I was looking for something that he could watch while I did chores to keep him occupied. He already knew numbers, shapes, and letters after doing the Your Baby Can Read series, so I thought this would be a great intro to phonics. Your Baby Can Read does not teach phonics, but word memorization which is still great to me and he is able to indentify objects and words before the age of 2. This video does teach both short and long vowels sounds at the end with the phonics song. It also has a cute song for vowels. By the end of the 1st week, he was able to do the sounds for all the letters! Now I will say this. If your child is used to high animation cartoons, then this video may bore them. I figured if my son is going to watch TV, then educational DVDs were the way to go since the take care of two birds with one stone.

My 2.5 year old daughter has a love for anything to do with letters so I got this movie based on reviews and it is her new favorite movie. She loves the songs and I hear her singing them after the movie. It keeps her attention and is easy for her to understand and does a great job explaining the basics

Like this video better than the Letter Factory Phonics. I bought both having bought several of the PreSchool Prep videos in the past and never have been disappointed. Also bought Letter Factory from the recommendation of a teacher. This one was much better! Kids are like sponges... so why not teach them everything you can at a young age. This video gives MORE of the phonics sounds and also sound like they are suppose to over the other video, in my opinion. For example, with the letter "C", they sound it out two ways... as Circle and in another scene Crab. Same letter but different sound. Some say it might seem confusing, but we had the opposite experience, again our 3yr, as most kids are sponges and learn very quickly.

I cannot sing this series enough praises. My two children, ages 3 and 1, watch one of these DVDs once a day. As evidence of their effectiveness, my three year old daughter can pick out any of the sounds/words in this series any time we are reading a book togehter, when we are out in public, and if she happens to look at a page that I am reading. My son, who can barely speak, has limited speech capacity and he is able to distinctly verbalize these words and sounds. I really don't care if some educators are against learning in this way. It works. This is hands down the best way that I have found to teach my children (along with reading)- and my friends and family are literally blown away by what they have seen my children read at such a young age. Do you want to feel like the best parent in the world (at least temporarily)? Then buy this DVD series. You will be creating baby geniuses!

This is one of the best movies in the set of them, my three year old knows his voyels in the three weeks we've had it. "R in charge" to the tune old McDonald was a hit with my five year old. he has used it as well as silent "e" while reading and has now been able to read a level two reader book. we watch a movies (of the six) about once a week. I gave it four stars rather then five because we have all three meet the phonics and the three meet the sight words.