Preschool Prep Series Collection – 10 DVD Boxed Set (Meet the Letters, Meet the Numbers, Meet the Shapes, Meet the Colors, Meet the Sight Words 1, 2 & 3, Meet the Phonics – Letter Sounds, Digraphs & Blends

Kids learning tools
Excellent tool for grandkids.

These videos are Fantastic!
I bought this set of videos for my son and daughter-in-law while my daughter-in-law was pregnant. The first four videos: Letters, Numbers, Colors and Shapes, are geared to begin at 9 months of age. We began showing these first 4 videos to my granddaughter when she was 6 months old. We showed her one video per day on most days, but not every day. She is now 12 months old. She is beginning to say many, many words such as: mommy, daddy, puppy, stop, sock, etc… Most babies say, “Mama” and “Dadda.” They repeat the same sound. So as another example, they might say “Kee Kee” for Kitty cat. Repeating the sound is about all they can do at this age. But my granddaughter says “Mommy,” “Daddy” etc… So she is combining 2 completely different sounds together. I think these videos have helped with this! I really do! Now she is beginning to tell us the names of the letters. We can hold up a letter and say, “What letter is this?” At 12 months, believe it or not, she can tell us the name of the letter! I am the babies grandmother, as I mentioned above, but I am also a teacher. It is a dream come true when you can teach these things to your children with very little effort on your part. As I said, we simply showed one video per day to my granddaughter and she has learned the letters on her own from the videos alone. Because she is not fully talking yet, we are not sure how well she knows the shapes, colors and numbers. However, we expect that she knows them just as well. It’s just really hard for a 12 month old to say, “Triangle” or “Purple.” Time will tell in the next few months when she begins to talk more.Update:My granddaughter is now 14 1/2 months old. She knows and can pronounce every letter. We bought a bucket of foam letters with upper and lower case letters. She even knows the lower case letters. She also knows the numbers and can pronounce the colors purple, pink and blue. Seven is difficult for her to say. I highly recommend these videos. She loves them!Update: My granddaughter is now 16 months old. She knows all of the shapes and can say them. She knows all the numbers in English and Spanish, because they showed her the videos in Spanish as well.Update:My granddaughter is now 18 months old. Her parents have shown her the 3 site words DVDs a few times. She has memorized all 3 levels very quickly. These DVDs amaze me! She is not reading. She has simply memorized the site words.

Letter Sounds DVD a little confusing for early readers
I like the variety of videos in this bundle. Some of the more basic ones (colors, shapes) work for my two year old, while others focus more on prerequisite reading skills (letters, sounds etc). As a teacher, my criticism is that the letter sounds dvd introduces all of the sounds each letter makes, rather than focusing on each letter’s primary sound. This is confusing and too overwhelming for a beginning reader. This is especially confusing to young readers because many of the letters require other letters in order to make the sounds the dvd introduces. For example ‘a’ says /aw/ like “awesome.” The reason ‘a’ makes that sound is because the diphthong ‘aw’ says /aw/ (paw, saw, crawl etc). They introduce ‘o’ as saying /oo/ like in “shoe.” Again that is confusing for a beginner reader. I also don’t think it is wise to introduce all four sounds that ‘y’ can make at this stage (long e, long i, short i and /y/). I would have rather seen them stick to short vowel sounds and to introduce ‘y’ as a consonant.

my two years old boy loves it,I borrowed sight words 1&2 from library first,really works,he can read the sight words on those DVD in 2 weeks,so I ordered this collection.my son can watch those DVDS again and again,not let me stop it.happy purchase.thanks:]

My boys can read sight words now because of these dvds