As part of my "Little Bag of Tricks" you'll my puppets that assist me when teaching different reading strategies. A different puppet is used to teach each strategy.
Clarence The Clown: this puppet that reminds students to "look for clues". (context clues) Sleeping Sally, "sounds out words and sounds", Frances The Frog "skips the hard words and then hops back", Chunky the Monkey "looks for chunks in the words", Ebenezer Smelly is the skunk who suggests to ask a smelly friend like a mom, or a teacher, or a classmate for help, or look in a smelly dictionary....
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Mooing Matila is our farm friend who likes words that sounds the same (word families) like hat, rat, and cat, and how, now, and cow. A song called "Friends Who Help Me Read" assists us as we tie in the auditory with the visual aspects of the puppets to meet different learning styles of different students.
When assisting students read, they may know how to say day...which will help them as they remember "Mooing Matilda" says..."If you know how to read day, then you can read play, and stay, and way, and tray, and stray, etc...
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