OK, I must admit that whether it's shameless or not, I'm open to teaching with cheap thrills and entertaining methods.  As I have mentioned in previous posts, my kindergartener has had a little difficulty learning the sounds and letters of the alphabet.  The letter a week approach has worked very well for him, and now he is on such a roll that we are up to two letters a week with very little fluff.  He's just in the mode now to learn them.  He even started some blending this week--praise God!  But tonight I opted for an easy method to add to the collection of tricks!  A friend loaned me the Leap Frog Letter Factory video.  He is down there watching it right now.  And I even told him he can watch it anytime, anywhere, as many times as he wants!  I just want to get him reading.  So it may be lazy or the easy way out, or whatever, but if the Letter Factory gets him to where we can start learning to put the sounds together--I'm all for it!