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Features include:
•MPAA Rating: G
•Format: DVD
•Runtime: 86 minutes
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• Kids love learning to read with this entertaining collection of video lessons. Cool songs, colorful animation, and energetic performers make learning fun. Kids control the pace, advancing as they master each new skill. Catchy songs and rhymes make phonics rules easy to remember. As they progress through the program, kids have plenty of opportunity to practice their skills by reading along with amu
| | | Product Details: | | | Actors:
| Various | | Director:
| Various | | Format:
| Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC | | Language:
| English | | Number of Discs:
| 1 | | Studio:
| Mill Creek Entertainment | | Run Time:
| 86 minutes | | DVD Release Date:
| January 19, 2010 | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 14 reviews |
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21 of 21 found the following review helpful:
 Great RockNLearn Value for Home UseJan 06, 2011
By K. Carter
This movie is an incredible value. Most Rock N Learn movies cost at least double this price. The DVD case says that this movie is 104 minutes long and as far as I can tell it contains a lot of clips from those other pricier versions. The main reason I think that this is cheaper is that it is for HOME USE ONLY whereas most other Rock N Learn Videos give permission to show them in a classroom setting too.
I bought this movie for my 2 year old daughter who LOVES the Rock N Learn Series (she even enjoys titles like this that are made for kids older than her). We started with the Rock N Learn movie "Colors, Shapes and Counting" when she was about 1.5 and she has learned so much so fast! Though she is not ready to sit and watch this movie straight through (there are some concepts that are over her head) we put it on and let her watch the parts she likes. I am confident that a large majority of the chapters in this DVD will be watched a lot, if not now I am sure she will be interested in them as she progresses.
Contrary to what the cover makes it look like, there are NOT many live people in the movie. It is traditional Rock N Learn style (see their website for video clips of other movies). I would describe it as "flash animation" style. There are some sections that have a real mouth or real person (adult) in the corner showing you how to pronounce the word or sound (I love this feature). Some sections are songs, some are reading words along with a beat, some are quiz type games (cool for older kids, but we skip most of these for our 2 year old), some sections are read-along stories (brief animations or illustrations with follow along words at the bottom- they usually give you a chance to read it on your own and then they highlight the words as they read them). Each chapter/section is separate from the others and only last a few minutes at the most. So you could just focus on a few clips at a time to introduce and/or solidify a particular concept.
I am not sure if all of the chapters are clips from other movies, but I know that there are at least a handful of clips that are also on some of the other Rock N Learn movies we own (for instance there are some duplicate clips on the "Letter Sounds" movie, and though I don't own the "Phonics" movies I would guess that they also contain duplicates of some of these clips). Anyway, I've listed the chapter titles in this DVD below so that you can compare with other Rock N Learn videos that you might own.
Includes:
Vowels
Common Sounds of Each Letter
Name That Letter
C-V-C Words (consonant-vowel-consonant)
Special Sounds of C G Q X
Putting it All Together
Double Consonants (plural s ending s)
Let's Read "The Cats"
Let's Read "Fun in the Pen"
Let's Read "Bill, the Big Pig"
Ending Consonant Blends
Beginning Consonant Blends
Triple Consonant Blends
Consonant Diagraphs & Trigraphs
Silent e
Let's Read "Pat and Nat at Camp"
Let's Read "Pam and Jill Shop"
Let's Read "Bill and Max Go for a Swim"
Marko Loves to Read
Read and Sing "The Three Little Pigs"
Read and Sing "Jack and the Beanstalk"
Read and Sing "The Ugly Duckling"
Read and Sing "The Little Red Hen"
Marko's Comedy
I was surprised he packaging was not a traditional DVD case (it looks like it on the outside, but inside it holds the DVD in a removable envelope rather than a traditional DVD clasp). It doesn't really matter to me, but it is worth noting.
I think this movie is an awesome addition to any home with children who are learning to read. It is very thorough. Plus, adding music definitely makes reading and learning more fun. I think this movie would work well with either a phonics based reading method or a sight words reading method (as there are a lot of words they read and show at the same time). Just pick the clips that support the method you prefer. Have fun!
4 of 5 found the following review helpful:
 So-SoJan 21, 2011
By J. Chromy
I bought this for my five year old. He has a good attention span, likes most educational videos, and it just didn't impress either of us. At the same time, it wasn't awful. I liked that it is in segments. I didn't like how long each skill took (listening to the entire alphabet was quite the snoozer). I also didn't like how they did the cvc words. For example, the word cat was taught like "c" and "at". This would be good with word family practice with a group of words, but it lacked showing that each letter makes a sound and presented the words individually.
2 of 3 found the following review helpful:
 Kids pay attention to it...Oct 13, 2010
By Jose A. Bravo Jr.
"soccer engineer"
I have many learning videos that I play for my kids in the morning prior to them going off to school. Some grab their attention and others dont. This one has managed to grab their attention and they listen to it with focus. I also received this product on time with no problems.
My 2 and a half year old LOVES itApr 25, 2012
By S. Anderson
"S. Anderson"
My son turned 2 and a half yesterday, and he has known his letter sounds for over 6 months now, but has never quite understood how to put them together (which is reasonable, since he is only 2). I bought this video a little over a month ago, and he watches it in the car, when we take rides to run errands, etc. He enjoys it, and he repeats things like "Daddy, the vowels are A,E,I,O,U, and sometime Y". I thought it was very cute, but he has always had a good memory, so I never thought much of it. However, 2 days ago we pulled out a set of word-to-picture matching puzzles, which we haven't used in quite some time, and unexpectedly, he started sounding out the letters in sequence and telling us what each word was. We were shocked! There were about 30 words in the set, and he got nearly 20 of them, before getting distracted and moving onto something new. We went back the next day, and he did it again. Through this video, he seems to understand the concept of reading. I definitely think this video was key to getting him over that hurdle. He had a good foundation, with already knowing the letter sounds, but this video helped him put it all together. Obviously, I am quite pleased with the results of this $8 purchase! :-)
My 3 year old is readingApr 09, 2012
By Unicorn
My 3 year old has PDD-NOS.. on the autism spectrum and has a severe speech delay. However, he loves this movie. It engages him and made him want to learn how to read. He is actually reading before he can really talk. Its amazing.
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