Rock 'N Learn

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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. Releases of titles today include DVDs and digital copy download formats (for video versions) and CDs and books (for audio versions). However, titles (released on video and audio versions) were formerly available on the VHS video cassette tapes and audio cassettes with books.^[1] Multiplication Rock was the first title published in 1987.

History[]

In 1987, school psychologist Richard Caudle saw that children needed the use of music that they enjoyed to help them learn. Assisted by his musician brother Brad, Caudle released the first video -—and audio—- release (Multiplication Rock). This title featured practice with multiplication tables. The success of this release spawned more educational content from Richard and Brad, eventually forming the company called Rock 'N Learn.

The first other VHS releases (after Multiplication Rock) were Alphabet, Colors, Shapes & Counting, Nursery Rhymes, and Letter Sounds. Later came a two-volume VHS release (Phonics Volumes I and II). This title featured more complex foundations for learning to read. Many video releases were released as well --as well as audio releases with each audio title including a book-- to coincide with the audio version (on cassette and CD). DVDs (for video versions of titles) have been released since 2006.

Melissa, Brad's wife, has been known to write Rock 'N Learn's products, as well as consulting teachers for educational input. Brad's wife, Kathie, is the company's director of marketing. 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 titiled Sight Words. Sight Words Level 2 and Sight Words Level 3 are available as well. 2010, 2012, and 2018 saw the renovation of the video programs versions of Letter Sounds, Colors, Shapes & Counting, Alphabet, Telling Time, and Nursery Rhymes (DVD only). However, some titles have been discontinued such as Division Rock, the audio versions of Division Rap and Alphabet (audio cassette & CD and book), and Aprendamos Inglés DVD for teaching ESL. 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 video and audio versions (DVD for video; CD and book for audio).

Early Childhood Titles^[2]

Phonics Reading and Writing Titles^[3]

Math Titles^[4]

Languages Titles^[5]

Science and Social Studies Titles^[6]

Board Books

Discontinued Titles

Awards[]

These are the respective award or awards each program has won. This section includes awards that discontinued awards have won.^[7]

References[]

External links[]

Rock 'N Learn Website – official children's educational entertainment program brand website

Rock 'N Learn YouTube Channel – official children's educational entertainment program brand YouTube channel