- Meet the Phonics - Letter Sounds DVD

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.

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

I am so happy to finally find something that teaches (almost) all the phonograms for the letter sounds. While my kids love the leap frog games and shows, they don't cover the vowel sounds which can be so confusing. I believe that teaching in small groups each letter and all it's possible sounds are a better and more effective way to learn. It takes a little more work in the beginning, but is much more highly effective in the long run. (I have a 7th grade boy who is currently reading at college level as proof that it is effective). Spell to write and read and writing road to reading would agree. A fun compliment to our curriculum.

Nice tool to start with your toddler.

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.

Totally awesome DVD! My toddler loves to watch it and can even sing the vowel song now! Aeiou and sometimes y.... I love preschool prep products! My son learned his shapes, colors and alphabets by watching these amazing videos too, so I figured why not move on to letter sounds! It's so great! Keeps him busy while he learns... I just reinforce his learning by reviewing and singing the songs with him!

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!

I have a 5 year old in kindergarten that I wanted to make sure that she was learning what she is supposed to during this first year of schooling. It's amazing how the use of sight words and phonics can get a child reading in no time. I just love hearing my kid sound out the letters in a word and then correctly identifying a word. As a bonus, my 2 year old LOVES to watch this movie with her sister. Maybe I'll get her reading before she starts Kindergarten.

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.