Product Description
In WordWorld, words come alive, words save the day, and words become a child’s best friend. Welcome to WordWorld, the first preschool series where words are truly the stars of the show! Come along for an adventurous romp into a colorful, vibrant world of words with the lovable, legible WordFriends, animals whose bodies are made up of the letters that spell the word they are!
The WordFriends go on comic adventures and face challenges that can only be resolved wi… More >>
WordWorld: Welcome to WordWorld
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#1 by V. Kimossova on April 2, 2010 - 12:51 pm
This show is not suitable for a child who doesn’t know yet how to blend the letters. Unless your child a proficient reader of three-four phonetically simple words this show wouldn’t help them. I wish the show makers started with the simplest words. Instead of starting with words like “dog” and “pig” the words that are spelled in the show are more challangenging like “pie” and “cake”.The choice of the words that are spelled in the show isn’t that good. The animals in the show are made out of letters and it is a good idea, but the letters are rarely seen clearly and unless a fluent reader your child will miss most of the words. Childern need repetition to learn reading and the words that are spelled on this DVD are rarely repeated. I would say that entertaiment side of the show is aimed at a 2 to 3 years old child, but educationaly it’s aimed at a 5 to 6 year child, so there is a disparity. To start reading without difficulties childern need to understand clearly that one letter might produce more then one sound and they need to remember all of the sounds that produced by each letter. This wasn’t adressed by the show.
My daughter, who is 4 found this show boring despite loving other programms about letters. She also adores animals but wasn’t interested in stories about animals on this DVD. In general this show might sparkle an interest in building words, which is good, but don’t expect that it would teach your child to read. WordWorld: Welcome to WordWorld
Rating: 2 / 5
#2 by Aegina Barnes on April 2, 2010 - 12:58 pm
I couldn’t wait to get Word World DVDs. It’s one of the few shows (along with SuperWhy) that I would rate as equal to CBeebies on BBC. Both Word World and Super Why are simultaneously fun and educational and have excellent animation.
Rating: 5 / 5
#3 by Evelyn Dejesus on April 2, 2010 - 2:14 pm
I just bought these two Word World movies tonight at Toys R’ Us. Price was 12.99 but they had a buy one, get second for 50%off sale, so the price is pretty much the same as here if you buy both. I have no idea why Amazon won’t have it until mid January.
Show is both entertaining and educational – my (almost) [...] daughter loves it.
Rating: 5 / 5
#4 by AR mom on April 2, 2010 - 2:36 pm
I have a 7 year old and 4 year old. The 7 year old has only watched it twice but the 4 year old seems to like it pretty well. Glad I bought it, but not sure I will buy any more from WordWorld will probably try something different. All in all I think it is pretty good for preschoolers.
Rating: 4 / 5
#5 by Paula C. Connolly on April 2, 2010 - 5:06 pm
I love this DVD (and the series), what they are trying to do, and the way they achieve it. My daughter loves Word World too, and it is teaching her to spell.
Rating: 5 / 5