What is the best educational DVD for teaching a child to read?
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I am an elementary teacher and I AM GLAD YOU ASKED!!!! The answer to you question depends on the age of your child and how much your child already knows. Here are several resources I absolutely love for kids. They are readily available at Wal-Mart, Target, and most bookstores. Don't forget to check out Half Price Books for bargains on DVD's as well. It is my experience that children that are read to turn out to be lifelong readers. There is no magical one certain way to teach reading, so feel free to mix it up.
Meet the Sight Words
Meet the Sight Words
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Meet the Sight Words uses colorful animation and repetition to familiarize children with common words that are useful for early readers. Some of these sight words do not follow general phonetical rules, so children will have a much easier time learning to read if these rule-breakers are memorized early on. Children will also learn other small and simple words which are encountered frequently when reading. Each DVD covers over 15 kindergarten sight words
Scholastic DVDs
Scholastic DVDs
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Scholastic DVDs are animated adaptations of many of the most beloved story books. The DVDs are narrated using the exact words from the stories themselves, and even the animation in the DVDs usually matches that of the books. In addition, the DVDs offer read along versions of the stories, so children can read subtitles as the narrator tells the story. Parents and teachers can also encourage kids to read books by letting kids watch the story on DVD after they read it.
Leap Frog DVDs
Leap Frog DVDs
Leap Frog DVDs are produced by the same company that makes the popular line of Leap Frog learning toys for children. The animated DVDs feature their signature frog characters, and teach a variety of early literacy and reading skills. The series features the following reading readiness DVDs: Leap Frog - Letter Factory , Leap Frog - Talking Words Factory, Leap Frog - Talking Words Factory 2 - Code Word Caper, and Leap Frog - Learn to Read at the Storybook Factory. The DVDs are also available in a set along with the Math Circus DVD.
Emma's Extravagant Expedition
Emma's Extravagant Expedition
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Emma's Extravagant Expedition takes kids on a storybook adventure that will entertain and educate. With the goal of advanced vocabulary building in mind, a story is narrated to kids as they see the pages with the pictures and the text. The story incorporates words like malicious, benevolent, monotonous, simultaneous, and many more. The DVD also contains an exercise called the Vocabulary Builder, which uses multiple choice questions to help kids learn the meanings of a selection of vocabulary words from the story. (Ages 4-7, NR)
I will be happy to help you with this, I am exploring this with my little on right now. For my son's 2nd bday his grandparents got the My Baby can Read set, at first I was kind of skeptical but when I heard my 2 year old say Tiger I was sold. The rules for it are kind of strict but they give you tons of room to modify it. You can find the deluxe set at eCrater for $85.
Overstock has the Leapfrog: Learn to read at the Storybook Factory DVD is a good buy as well. Aimed at children in the three to six-year-old age bracket. The price for this is $10.23.
The Leapfrog website has the Sing-Along Read-Along DVD & 12 Book set for ages 3 to 7 for $14.99. Music videos bring the included stories to life through lively animation, songs and words on-screen.
I hope I have been able to help you today. Thanks for visiting IMshopping!
Overstock has the Leapfrog: Learn to read at the Storybook Factory DVD is a good buy as well. Aimed at children in the three to six-year-old age bracket. The price for this is $10.23.
The Leapfrog website has the Sing-Along Read-Along DVD & 12 Book set for ages 3 to 7 for $14.99. Music videos bring the included stories to life through lively animation, songs and words on-screen.
I hope I have been able to help you today. Thanks for visiting IMshopping!
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I just recently had to find the same thing. I found
http://www.yourbabycanread.com and http://www.babybumblebee.com
Both sites are supposedly useful for children with learning delays as well.
http://www.yourbabycanread.com and http://www.babybumblebee.com
Both sites are supposedly useful for children with learning delays as well.
