Great LeapFrog LeapPad Ultra eBook Collection
My 6 year-old has about 15 games and apps for her LeapPad, and this one is a favorite of both of ours. The Fairy Tales eBook contains two stories, Leapfrog versions of The Three Little Pigs and Jack and the Beanstalk, and has the same basic format as the other Ultra eBooks we own... full-color, interactive, narrated story pages, interspersed with educational mini-games. Leapfrog's versions of the fairy tales are fairly far-removed from the originals, very inoffensive and mild. Though they definitely aren't my favorite retellings, they're not bad stories, and I think my 6 year-old - who knows the original Grimm versions inside and out - actually enjoys spotting and telling me about the differences between the "real" stories and the Leapfrog ones.
Anyway, the thing that sets this eBook above the others we own are the learning games... they are much more interesting and far more educational than the others we've tried, as well as being perfectly targeted for the true beginning reader. My favorite activity is one where your child is given an incomplete sentence and asked to drag and drop the missing word into the appropriate spot... it is perfect for learning Kindergart en sight words! Overall, this is one of the better LeapPad learning tools out there and very definitely recommended for Kindergart en-level readers.
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arrived quickly and my daughter loves it the levels that you have to slowly progress your child are awesome! I would def recommend this to others!
ReplyDeleteMy 6 year-old has about 15 games and apps for her LeapPad, and this one is a favorite of both of ours. The Fairy Tales eBook contains two stories, Leapfrog versions of The Three Little Pigs and Jack and the Beanstalk, and has the same basic format as the other Ultra eBooks we own... full-color, interactive, narrated story pages, interspersed with educational mini-games. Leapfrog's versions of the fairy tales are fairly far-removed from the originals, very inoffensive and mild. Though they definitely aren't my favorite retellings, they're not bad stories, and I think my 6 year-old - who knows the original Grimm versions inside and out - actually enjoys spotting and telling me about the differences between the "real" stories and the Leapfrog ones.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, the thing that sets this eBook above the others we own are the learning games... they are much more interesting and far more educational than the others we've tried, as well as being perfectly targeted for the true beginning reader. My favorite activity is one where your child is given an incomplete sentence and asked to drag and drop the missing word into the appropriate spot... it is perfect for learning Kindergarten sight words! Overall, this is one of the better LeapPad learning tools out there and very definitely recommended for Kindergarten-level readers.
My 4 year old son likes it, this was the first story I bought for his leap pad. I like that it reads and highlights the words. It also had him interact with simple games. Overall great purchase.
ReplyDeleteBought for my daughter for her leappad for xmas and she loves it great buy and love the leapster products
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ReplyDeleteWe definitely like this! I would have paused about the price, but this included two stories, amazing graphics (it's kind of like an animated movie/story book), and some games. Definitely worth the price, though the cost can add up, so we'll have to pace ourselves in buying others.
ReplyDeleteWhen we clicked on the first story, we first got a song about how letters make sounds and sounds make words. It was catchy and fun (and not even annoying to me!).
Then it goes to the story, which has periodic breaks for games. I do agree with Leapfrog that this will help my daughter with phonics and sight words. (Sometimes they say something will, and I think it's a reach. Not this time!) Our little guy - who is three - likes to watch her play, so he's learning along with her. The difficulty can be adjusted to make it easier or harder; right now, as a new kindergarten student, we have it at the easiest and it's perfectly at the intersection of ability and challenge, so she's learning without getting frustrated. (She currently knows sounds of each letter and can identify a few basic words.)
The stories were definitely changed from the originals. They are the Leapfrog re-tellings, and - for example - The Three Little Frogs story has each frog build a house and then a wolf wants to play after they've built their houses. They don't let him in ("not by the green of my little frog skin"), but the wolf doesn't huff and puff. Instead, the inferior materials of some of the homes just fall apart when the frogs jump. At the end, the story is softened from the original by having the "wolf" actually just be their dog whose shadow looked like a scary wolf. I liked the new stories, and I think it could be a good critical thinking skills exercise for kids to compare and contrast the original story with this one.
I do wish the game times were separate from the story. Each game time was fun for our daughter (like one with spelling where she got to chose different vowels to complete a word and then the game read the new word to her and taught her a bit about phonics sounds in the process), but each time felt like an interruption to the story itself. My daughter didn't mind, but it still felt disjointed, and I don't think she retained as much of the story. (For example, she had difficulty re-telling it.) I think as she plays with it again and again it will be less distracting, so I don't think this is a major flaw.
Overall, I've been impressed with our Leappad experiences, and this ultra e-book is no exception.
My daughter loves this game! It has so many features and mini games with each story. One of her favorites is it allows her to read the story and record her own voice. She loves hearing herself read it back.
ReplyDeleteWould recommend this to everyone!
At the moment, the ebook is my son's favorite. He is not a reader yet, so he listens to the stories over and over again, plays some of the mini games, points to the letters and names them.
ReplyDeleteThere are two fairy tales in the collection. YOu can choose one of the three reading levels and get more or less complex text on each page. There are animated pictures everywhere. If you tap on a letter it says the letter sound, there is also a way to make it read the whole word, but I cannot figure out how to do it consistently, unlike the Tag reader books that have an icon at the bottom of each page to choose either word, letter sound or name of the letter. The ebook lets you to read a few pages, then offers to take a break and play, or you can get to the mini-games from the menu on the bottom on the screen. Everything shows in landscape mode, so if you are using the first leappad and your child is left-handed, s/he is in trouble, since the stylus attached on the right side of the screen. They fixed it in the second leappad, thankfully.
Overall, it seems to be a great book-game, with maybe a little too much entertainment with less focus on actual learning, but it is very consistent with other leapfrog products, so it was expected.
I got this ebook for the Leap Pad 2 through the Vine program for my Granddaughter to use. I was not familiar at all with the original Leap Pad so I can't make any comparisons. This was an excellent ebook, when I got it I ended up playing with it for over an hour! When Leda came to visit she played with it intently for quite some time. I must say I found the little educational interludes where you played games during the book an interruption, she didn't seem to.
ReplyDeleteWhen you change the reading level the words used change dramatically, it really does change the reading level. All in all I believe this is an excellent book for fun and educational value.