LeapFrog: Learn to Read at the Storybook Factory

So much better than "See Spot Run" or what I had in 80. I mean, they did actually teach us to read and write in Kindergarten back then, and we went all day, but I didn't have this cool pen that sounded out the words for me when I dragged it over them. That is incredible! The story is amusing and entertaining too. Imagine how much more perspicacious we would be if this was developed in our generation vs the Speak-n-Spell.I have to buy a new Leap system for my grandson. My kids' got passed down to the nephews. I only hope that I do an even better job this time around. I mean our kids all skipped grades after elementary home school. We gave them the choice to either go the junior high or wait til high school. They chose junior. They far exceeded our expectations. Its just that I feel I could have done better by them. I feel these LeapFrog products were definitely my better choices.This entire system and its accessories is vibrant in color, stories, activities, core subjects and keeping attention, I mean gosh!!! Way to go! Im grateful both to the manufacturer and Amazon seller. We are not rich. This fits our tight budget.

I have long been a fan of the rest of the Leap Frog videos and products. The first 3 videos in the series  Leap Frog - Letter FactoryLeap Frog - Talking Words FactoryLeap Frog - Talking Words Factory 2 - Code Word Caper  helped my oldest son (now 8 and reading at the 9th grade level) learn to read in kindergarten. I picked this dvd up for my 3 1/2 year old who knows all of his letters and their sounds and could sound out simple 3 letter words without assistance after faithfully watching his brother's Leap Frog video series for the last 6 months. He loves his new Storybook Factory dvd. It is teaching him concepts of print like punctuation (commas mean a short pause etc...) and how to read more fluidly. Since we got the dvd he is now reading to me from his kindergarten level reader books  Brand New Readers Red Set (Brand New Readers)  The Learn to Read dvd also teaches the concept of taking your time to do a job right instead of rushing through it and making a mess of things. A wonderful product for anyone looking to give their preschooler a head start or help a struggling older reader.

Great for my kindergartener who’s learning to read

I love all the Leapfrog DVDs that we have, and without a doubt pre-ordered this DVD even before it became available.My 30 month old loves this DVD as much as The Letter Factory and The Word Factory. When he "mastered" the other two DVDs, I felt a sense of emptiness not being able to find anything else quite like them to keep his interest. So you can imagine how elated I was when I found out there is another new DVD!He now knows his commas, periods, question marks and also exclamation marks, and point them out to me when I read his favourite bedtime storybooks. Before this DVD, he was oblivious to their existence. And whenever I am at the computer, he will hit the comma & period keys on a Word document (not possible for exclamation marks and question marks, as these require the SHIFT key) all on his own, which means he has learnt them too!Looking forward to more DVDs from Leapfrog!

My son adores all of these videos. He has watched them probably hundreds of times and loves the storytelling aspect of this one. In the show they put on the play of the 3 Little Pigs and he and I will reconstruct the play together in our living room. He also has learned that the words should be read together instead of broken. Which can be a difficult concept to grasp. The show is entertaining and doesn't resort to name calling or bullying tactics by the characters to carry a weak story line.So glad we found this series.

The ideal audience for this movie are those who already know how to read individual words, but have not yet combined them into sentences to make a story.THE MOVIEThe Leap kids are filming a movie of the classic story "The Three Little Pigs" and Tad is asked to narrate. He starts somewhat slow as he struggles to read the words of the script. He's then instructed how to read in a normal speaking voice and as the words are being read, they show up along the bottom bar of the tv screen so your child can follow along. By the end of the movie, the words are moving so quickly across the screen that it would be hard for any beginner to keep up.SUMMARYWhile the story-line is entertaining and the principal of how Tad is taught to read is correct, the beginning reader is easily lost in the rate of speed the lines are read which can be frustrating. My 3-year-old son loves the earlier movies:  LeapFrog: Letter Factory , LeapFrog: Talking Words Factory  and  LeapFrog: Word Caper , but at this point he watches this movie just for the enjoyment.

I love everything about this leapfrog movie. My problem is with the Amazon service. I bought this dvd online then a couple of weeks later it was gone to where I needed to buy it again. I have proof that it was not rented, but bought!!! Trying to figure out how to get this and the other leapfrog movie back on my TV.....Update!!! My videos are back. Thank you!

Kids love this DVD! Really helps them learn.

I bought it for my son and we're foreigners so I thought this would help him to learn and read in English but the system is just much too fast and they keep on talking and not really explaining how to read.Actually it is only a story about a "kid" learning but not a method.however my kid loves watching it !!!!though the pics quality is rather poor...

Die DVD ist sehr gut für Kinder und die können jeden Tag neue Wörter lernen. Ich freue mich sehr. Danke!

I have just observed how the kids will react to it. Kids just learned a lot of new things and it was great fun too. Highly recommend all their CDs.

Love it