• Build over 325 words with magnetic letters that teach and sing!
• Includes letters A through Z, plus three additional letters so kids can spell words like MOM.
• Features three ways to play: Load a Letter, Word Builder and Word Hunt learning modes.
• Lights follow letters to reinforce the learning.
• Helps develop rhyming skills and teaches word building for three-letter words. Help reading skills rise and shine with this magnetic letter set!

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With LeapFrog's Word Whammer Fridge Phonics, you can create over 325 three-letter words with magnetic letters that sing and teach. These interactive, magnetic letters are based on the LeapFrog Talking Words Factory video. What's a Word Whammer' It's a machine that teaches kids letter names, letter sounds and how letter sounds blend together to make words. It features three modes of play. In Letter Hunt, children learn letter names and sounds through fun songs. With Word Builder, children explore letter combinations and create over 325 words. In Word Hunt, children can spell three-letter words, then replace letters to make rhyming words. Lights follow each letter during play to reinforce the learning. Includes letters A through Z, plus six additional letters (E, O, D, G, M and P), so kids can spell words like MOM and DAD. Letters and magnetic letter reader attach securely to the refrigerator. Volume control and 2 "AA" batteries (included).

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great product
Comment: I love this.My son plays with it all the time.The pieces are strong dont
break when he throws them.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great toy, but disappointed with reverse engineering
Comment: My son had the fridge toy last year, that did just the single letters. He had learned all his abc's and was ready to proceed to words. It's great that the letters all stay in one place, but we were disappointed that the letters from the old toy did not fit! Same company, same shape, but the old ones are just too big to fit. Now, what do I do with all these extra letters that won't work with the new toy?

It's a shame.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: other leapfrog letters don't fit
Comment: This is a good toy stand alone. However, we were really hoping to build on his other fridge toy - from the same company - and we have upper and lower case letters from that toy/same company. The letters are not the same size. They are just slightly different. This is ridiculous?! Why? Why? Why? Not only that but they are slightly smaller making them just small enough to fit in the choking tube for our littler one who is following her big brother to the fridge. Now we really can't play with this toy. Shame.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Only one complaint
Comment: This toy is very nice, what you would expect from LeapFrog. My only complaint is that when it's in the sounding out mode- the child can put in 3 letters and it sounds it out. This is great for learning letter sounds and putting them together. However, if it is a real word, first it says the word and then sounds the letters and the says the word one more time. I'd like my child to get a chance to try and put the sounds together, before it tells him the word.
Other than that it is very fun, and my 6 year old loves playing with it even more than my 4 year old.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Word Builder and Fridge Phonics (new version)
Comment: The Word Builder (with the jet shape) has only lower case letters and the new Fridge Phonics (yellow and blue with the star-like shape) has only upper case letters. You can use these upper and lower letters on both toys. I know cos I have both toys.

I don't know if the letters from the The Word Whammer and the old Fridge Phonics (with Tad the frog on it) would work with The Word Builder and the new Fridge Phonics though. I read that they don't.

The Word Builder is useful and fun only if your child can read a little or at least knows his letter sounds. I would suggest starting with Leapfrog Letter Factory DVD, with your 2 1/2 or 3 year old, and perhaps complementing his learning with the Fridge Phonics.

Once he knows his letter sounds, it is easier to teach him to blend letters. I strongly recommend The Reading Lesson: Teach your child to read in 20 Easy Lessons (cheapest on Amazon). The Word Builder would be a useful and fun supplement to your child's reading lessons.

My 4 year old son gets frustrated only because he can't make 4 or 5 letter words but he got over it when he realised he could form whatever words he wanted on the whiteboard using the magnetic letters, instead of in the toy itself.

The Word Builder includes 2 each of the letters, "d", "e" and "m" (so your child CAN spell dad and mom) as well. And if like me, you have both the Word Builder and the Fridge Phonics, your child can spell a lot more words.

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