Your Baby Can Read (Volume 1-3, plus Starter Video and Review Video)
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Artist: Robert C. Ph.D TitzerDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 164 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-02-17
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Repnet
DVD Reviews of Your Baby Can Read (Volume 1-3, plus Starter Video and Review Video)
DVD Review: These DVDs Work!
Summary: 4 Stars
My son is nearly 13 months old. I have been showing him one DVD per day from the Your Baby Can Read set, about 5 days per week since he was 4 months old, according to the recommended schedule. Most of the time I sit down and go through the DVD with him. When he was nearly 11 months old I noticed that he was starting to anticipate words, like clapping, after the word was shown, but before the narrator said it. We printed out a bunch of the words from the DVDs and made them into flash cards to test him. These are the first words we found that he knew: leg, toes, cow, book, wave, baby, clap, clapping, nose, dog, drum, arms up, ball, ears.
Through the homemade flash cards we have learned that my son can currently read more than 70 words. Early on it was difficult to know whether or not he mastered reading a word, because not only did he have to read it, but he had to respond to us in a way to show us what the word represents. He only speaks a handful of words, but he has been able to indicate what he knows though using American Sign Language, which we have been teaching him by watching the Signing Time TV show on PBS and using the Baby Signing Time DVDs (I highly recommend these). If he can't sign or say a word, he'll pick up a toy, make a sound like the animal, point at the object or do an action (e.g., waving) representing the word. For parents that are planning to use this DVD set with babies who aren't speaking much yet, I would definitely recommend also getting the Baby Signing Time DVDs or teaching signs some other way.
As for the Your Baby Can Read DVDs themselves, they are definitely low budget. The picture quality is low compared with other DVDs currently out there for babies/kids and especially if you are used to HDTV. There are some mediocre parts of the program too, for example in the singing of I'm a Little Teacup, the girl singing sings the last line out of tune. Also, some of the poems that are read are poorly written. In Old MacDonald Had a Farm they sing "there was a chick...with a chick, chick here," which surely should be "with a cluck, cluck here" or a "with a peep, peep here".
The price seems a little high given the quality of the video, but the program really has worked. If you are short on money, you could just buy the review DVD and show it in shorter time segments (the review program is about 40 minutes). It contains all of the words and songs on the first 4 videos, plus some extra text. Not sure if it would be as effective as following the whole program though.
If basing my rating on results I'd have given this set 5 stars, but I've lowered the rating because of the quality and also the fact that the review segment doesn't offer much that is new (I understand it is a review of the words, but they could have filmed some different video segments for it and maybe added another song or two). Of course my one year old son couldn't care less about the quality. He enjoys these DVDs and rocks around to the theme song and also does motions to songs like If You're Happy and You Know It, Head Shoulders Knees and Toes, and Eentsy Weentsy Spider. Plus he reads and signs the words throughout. He has now seen the starter video and volume 1 so much that he is starting to sign the word before they even show it (he's memorized it)! He seems to now be losing interest in the programs and will only watch them if I sit down with him. My only other problem is where do I go with his reading learning next? I feel we should be moving on to simple sentences. Where is the Your Toddler Can Read set?
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