PlayShifu - Plugo Letters without Gamepad - Word Building & Grammar Kit

Arrived on time. It was a Christmas present got no feed back so cannot say to much. I think it looks like a great idea

Just wish the English settings were in British English not American English.

This would be a useful interactive learning toy except it has one serious defect: it uses capital letters.This means it has almost no value in teaching children to read; books are not written in caps, so learning to write ‘DOG’ is of no help in teaching to recognise ‘dog’ when the child sees it in a book.Furthermore it doesn’t help them to write the word either because they’ll be taught to write in lower case at school, the way adults normally write, too, except — perversely — for some reason when a non-teacher tries to teach a child to read. (If this is you, please switch to using lower case letters.)Worst of all, if a child does learn to write in upper case (capitals) using this game they’ll have to unlearn all the words they’ve just proudly learned in order to read the same basic words in lower case in their books and school learning materials, where they’ll all be in lower case. (This isn’t the place to explain all the very good reasons why school children are taught lower case letters at school, but the reasons are sound and universally accepted.) This process of having to unlearn in order to relearn is a confusing and demoralising experience for a relatively new school learner, one that may actually make them scared of learning to read and perhaps put them off books for life. So this game may actually have a negative effect on a child’s learning throughout school, surely not what is intended.I am frankly astonished that the manufacturers don’t seem to have consulted an early years teacher, any one of whom would certainly have insisted the game uses lower case letters. Although they are not alone in committing this error — there are lots of other so-called educational games that make it, too — there are good, interesting and helpful reading games based on lower case letters and you’d be better off buying one of those instead.In short, don’t buy if you want to help a child learn to read. It will only confuse them and lengthen, not shorten, their learning experience.(I am a qualified and experienced early years and remedial learning teacher. And I apologise for any types because I have a cat insisting on interfering as I write!)

I’ve had this for over a year now and my kids consider it very boring. It’s a bit glitchy too after a while. Not best quality, definitely not as good as Osmo.