User:Bakeshutwait/Rock 'N Learn

Rock 'N Learn is an American children's educational program brand. It covers many of the necessary elements of learning children encounter throughout childhood. Topics include fundamentals for young children such as the English alphabet, to a higher level for children who may have difficulty learning multiplication tables, to those for teenagers in high school who need to improve their writing skills. Rock N' Learn products are made for digital downloads as well as physical media. Releases today include DVD and CDs, while it formerly consisted of VHS tapes and cassette tapes.

About
In 1986, school psychologist Richard Caudle saw that children needed the use of music that they enjoyed to help them learn. Assisted by his brother Brad, Caudle released the first audio release featuring practice with multiplication tables. The first VHS releases were Alphabet, Colors, Shapes & Counting, Letter Sounds, and Nursery Rhymes. Later came a two-volume VHS release, Phonics, which featured more complex foundations for learning to read. Many VHS releases were released as well, as well as audio releases, with each audio program including a book to coincide with the audio cassette or CD.

Melissa, Brad's wife has been known to write Rock N' Learn's products. Over the years, a plethora of releases came along, including Alphabet Circus, Spanish, and Money & Making Change. Some math releases are released using diverse musical genres; rock, rap, and country. Several releases come in both video and audio format, while others come in either the former or the latter.

While Rock N' Learn does keep what benefits to children in their products, some releases have been renovated to appeal to a new generation of children. 2010 saw the renovation of Phonics, with the animation improving as well as new character designs. Several new scenes were adding including phonemic awareness exercises, sentence practice, and story practice. Formerly, both volumes were roughly forty-five minutes in length and shared the same DVD disc. However, following the renovation, each volume has extended to a running time of at least seventy minutes, prompting both volumes to require separate discs. This went on for over six years, until 2016, when it was renovated again, improving the animation, as well as some slight alterations. Not long after that, the volumes themselves were split in two, with each of the four parts having a running time between twenty-eight and forty-four minutes, as well as all parts being on a separate disc and being sold together in the Phonics 4-DVD Set.

2011 saw the release of Sight Words Level 1, previously released as simply Sight Words. Sight Words Level 2 and Sight Words Level 3 are available as well. 2012 saw the renovation of Letter Sounds. Colors, Shapes & Counting, Alphabet, Telling Time, and Nursery Rhymes were renovated as well. Although some of their products have been discontinued, Rock N' Learn has won over 200 awards. Most of them are listed below.

Titles
The following tables show a list of titles of the programs Rock 'N Learn has produced, as well as their respective running time, age range, the number of awards won, and whether or not they are available on DVD and CD.

'''Preschool & Kingerarten Titles

Phonics, Reading & Writing Titles

Math Titles

Languages Titles

Science & Social Studies Titles

Discontinued Titles

Board Books

Awards
These are the respective award or awards each program has won. This section includes awards that discontinued awards have won.