Product Details

• Actors: Letters, Numbers, Shapes, Colors, Sight Words
• Directors: Kathy Oxley
• Format: Animated, Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
• Language: English
• Subtitles: Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 7
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Preschool Prep Company
• DVD Release Date: October 27, 2008
• Run Time: 260 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (105 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B001ICUVPI
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,317 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
  • #66 in Movies & TV > DVD > Special Interests

Editorial Reviews

Preschool Prep & Sight Words Pack - 7 DVD Boxed Set (Meet the Letters, Numbers, Shapes & Colors, Sight Words 1, 2 & 3)
Learning Has Never Been This Easy!
A study of over 50 babies and toddlers, who watched Meet the Letters, resulted in over 90% of these children having complete upper and lowercase letter recognition. Many learned in less than two weeks! Numbers, shapes and colors and sight words can be learned in a few viewings. Meet the Sight Words DVDs teach over 45 basic kindergarten sight words. Preschool Prep Series DVDs have won over 25 national awards and are used in thousands of schools across the country. You will be amazed at what your little one can learn!TM Includes: Meet the Letters, Meet the Numbers, Meet the Shapes, Meet the Colors, Meet the Sight Words 1, Meet the Sight Words 2 and Meet the Sight Words 3

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

97 of 97 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Meet the Sight Words DVDs Great, Others Are Not, May 30, 2009

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A. Rother (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Preschool Prep & Sight Words 7 DVD Pack (Meet the Letters, Meet the Numbers, Meet the Shapes, Meet the Colors, Meet the Sight Words 1, Meet the Sight Words 2, Meet the Sight Words 3) (DVD)

I purchased the entire 7 Preschool Prep videos. I was very pleased with the "Meet the sight word" series. I purchased them as an experiment but after watching them 10-12 times (at about 20 min. a time since we didn't watch the repeats) my 5 year old learned almost all of the sight words and my 4 year old learned about 1/2 of the the sight words. It is WELL worth your money, as I have spent an entire school year trying to teach these words. Once the kids know them, it makes reading so much easier because they don't have to sound out every word. I prefer "Meet the sight words" over Your Baby Can Read just because the kids will see the sight words in print in almost any book they pick up.
As for "Meet the Letters" it is a huge disappointment. My kids were so bored with it that they wouldn't even sit through 1/3 of it. Also, IT DOES NOT INCLUDE LETTER SOUNDS, which is fundamental for reading success. I purchased "LeapFrog Letter Factory DVD." which is much better for teaching letters and sounds. It is 35 min. long and is much more engaging. I will be using the letter factory DVD and the meet the sight words DVD. I suggest buying the Meet the Sight words and not the "Meet the Letters, Numbers, Colors, or Shapes.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for kids, Torture for adults, January 26, 2009

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Jack (FL, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Preschool Prep & Sight Words 7 DVD Pack (Meet the Letters, Meet the Numbers, Meet the Shapes, Meet the Colors, Meet the Sight Words 1, Meet the Sight Words 2, Meet the Sight Words 3) (DVD)

I bought this series for my 2 yr old son and a 3 yr old autistic child in my care.

My son was deathly afraid of the voices at first and would not watch it for more than 1-2 minutes without begging me to turn it off or go to bed (yes, it was that bad). However, I turned the volume down a lot (well below the norm), and now he absolutely loves the shows.

Now from an adult perspective... they suck! They're mind numbing, brainwashing, torture! All they do is repeat the same word over and over and over while showing the shape, letter, or color.

I do give them 5 stars though, because they do what they are meant to do. They hold the attention of active toddlers while teaching them something useful. They have helped the autistic child to verbalize and both boys love to watch them. As painstaking as it is for me to watch them, I would still recommend them.

45 of 54 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars As a teacher - I do not know how this product ever won an award, January 23, 2010

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George Straub "gr8danelvr" (ohio) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Preschool Prep & Sight Words 7 DVD Pack (Meet the Letters, Meet the Numbers, Meet the Shapes, Meet the Colors, Meet the Sight Words 1, Meet the Sight Words 2, Meet the Sight Words 3) (DVD)

Let me first start out by saying that I am a teacher - I really value any educational toys or learning activities. I wanted to get a few educational DVD's for our car for my son to watch on longer trips. I was excited after reading about the awards this series received in a parent magazine. I popped in the first DVD and waited for my son to be "ooh-ed and ahh-ed" - after about 5 minutes, he no longer wanted to watch it. I brought the DVD's in the house and sat down to see what they were all about. I was shocked at how horrible they are, the graphics are very low budget, the character talks in a very high and hard to understand voice, and ther is no story/plot...the "characters" just move across the screen and repeat their letter over and over. No wonder he did not want to watch it. I thought maybe the letter one is just too basic, so I popped open the sight words DVD - same horrible experience, only the character repeats the word over and over. It is not educationally sound AT ALL, I think they must have made up the award they received. :) I thought maybe I was missing something so I took the DVD set over to a friend of mine who is also an elementary reading specialist, she agreed that they were horrible and was shocked they cost $50+ dollars for the set. She also said that they do not even follow the protocal of how letters are introduced and the foundations of phonemic awareness to teach phonics or sound. She said you are much better off with the Sesame Street or the Leapfrog learning DVD's. Amazon was great for letting me return this horrible series....we orded the entire Leapfrog learning DVD set when my son was almost 3 and he still loves this DVD's (and asks for them) at 4.5 years. Don't waste your money.