Readeez Volume One

Recommended for family, preschool, day-care, elementary school, and community library literacy education materials collections
When it comes to small children, learning is most effective when it is also fun! That's the basic educational concept underlying "Readeez: Volume One", a forty-minute DVD comprised of a series of one-minute mini-videos that incorporate an 'immersive' approach to acquiring reading skills. Combining the written word with the spoken word (including the form of a song lyric) facilities the young viewer in developing basic literacy skills. Words are presented in stories, songs, riddles, rhymes, and distinctive characters. Charming illustrations by Gerry O'Neill further enhance the blended learning and entertainment aspects. Unique, 'kid friendly', and effective, "Readeez: Volume One" is especially recommended for family, preschool, day-care, elementary school, and community library literacy education materials collections.

A great link for the pre-reader to solo-reading!
Our girl has been reading from age 2 and is fully reading BOB books series with ease, yet I was having trouble with her converting to solo-reading into the next genre of early readers. eg. Clifford the Big Red Dog series, Mercer Mayer's Little Critter books, Dr. Seuss books, Amelia Bedelia books. We have also been using about 5 LeapFrog DVDs for the past 2 years. In my search for something to help in the educational DVD department, I was not happy with what I found. Rock N Learn has poke-my-eyes out graphics and the Preschool Prep DVDs are similarly low budget and mind-numbing for a kid who knows quality graphics and audio.

In my search for a great product, I came across Read-eez and then did a little research. The guy who created this is a musician who puts words to great music. The words he places on the screen come up in rhythm to his tunes. What I really love about this is that kids are so programmed to watch DVDs and videos and follow the characters. In this...

Catchy songs for kids and parents...
We just got Volumes One through Three plus the cd, and we have been enjoying every minute of Readeez.

The white screen with simple black border and clean simple illustrations make it easy to both listen and absorb the lyrics/text which appear on the screen in synch with the audio. My 5.5 yr old son likes to "know" the words to rhymes, songs, dvds, and the short vignettes in Readeez are just up his alley. They are almost like dvd comic strips, in that they are short, snappy and simple. Even before watching the dvd through the first time, he was picking up on repetitions in the text, on obvious rhymes, and chanting out loud with the characters. By the time we'd watched a couple times, he was shouting out lyrics with confidence when they appeared on the screen.

The fun little rhymes and ditties both help give musical rhythm and help with phonics, the strong center presence of the printed words (ie pan, man, well/swell) along with the voiced pronunciations helping...

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