Leap Frog - Learn to Read at the Storybook Factory |  | Actor: Leapfrog
Studio: Warner Home Video
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Rating:  52 reviews
Sales Rank: 301
Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 1
Running Time: 35 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6
MPN: D71881D
ISBN: 1419814133
UPC: 012569718814
EAN: 9781419814136
ASIN: B0009WIE5C
Theatrical Release Date: 2005
Release Date: September 20, 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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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 no time, Tad is reading fluently and it looks like the talking storybook will be ready right on schedule. Viewers age 4 to 6 will develop their reading and comprehension skills right along with Tad thanks to on-screen highlighted text. DVD extras include a read-along storybook of a somewhat untraditional version of "The Three Little Pigs" that can be played with or without a voice track and five sing-along songs. --Tami Horiuchi
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 Title "Learn to Read" may be misleading --- depending on age group October 15, 2009
K. Evans (Columbia, MD USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a decent video but not essential. Now, the Letter Factory is definitely a must-have. My son is almost 4 yrs old and has been moved to the "Early Reading Program" at his preschool even though his age group is typically in Phonics first, then upon an assessment of readiness, they are moved to reading. He knew all his letters by 18 months old and knew the sounds of each letter by 3. If you are looking to help your child learn letters, you should definitely get the Letter Factory. It's amazing and fun to watch. My son wanted to watch that more than the Baby Einsteins (other than Baby Macdonald).
If you are wanting your child to read by 3 or 4, then this video is not going to help in my opinion. It may possibly help for an older age group -- If anything, it helps get children almost ready to read in the right mind-set and tries to make it fun. My son watched it a few times but wasn't hooked on it. One thing that I didn't like is that the video only uses capital letters and that is not helpful when any book you pick up is going to have both upper and lower case letters. If the child only sees words with all capital letters, than this is not going to help with reading a real beginner book like "cat in the hat". The lower case letters are going to be foreign.
From my internet research, children that can read at age 3 are usually the ones that learned by word-recognition/memory (i.e. not actually reading). Like my son recognizes the word "STOP" because its on all the stop signs, it's background is always red, and in the same shape.
 Great series - buy them all September 16, 2009
Nancy Rose Senich (McLean, VA USA)
This is the MOST valuable learning series for preschool and early elementary school children. Our girls love them - over and over! I am sure it has helped our three girls become early readers...Buy the set!
Prompt delivery September 1, 2009
Gwendolyn West
Prompt delivery. Shipped new as advertised. My 5 year old loves watching the learning tools
Storybook Factory July 12, 2009
Dawn Smith (Toms River, New Jersey United States)
My son loves this DVD. He asks to watch it over and over again. He now will tell the story of "The Three Little Pigs" to everyone he meets.
I feel it is a great introduction for pre school age children to story telling. We love all the Leap Frog DVDs and hope more will be coming out in the future.
Effective July 4, 2009
Ann Daciuk (Swarthmore, PA)
The Leapfrog Letter, Words, and Storybook Factory engage, entertain, and instruct. The length of each DVD (about 30 minutes) left our little student (age 3) with plenty of time for other play, often singing the Leapfrog phonics songs. This child is now constructing "-at" words with joy and ease.
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