Puppet Plays Plus: Using Stock Characters to Entertain and Teach Early Literacy

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Join Piggy Rae and her silly friends Bernie Bear, Tommy Turtle, Alistair McMoose and others in these engaging and interactive puppet skits that encourage both laughter and learning. This guide gives you everything you need for lively storytimes. In addition to ten complete scripts, you'll find literacy tips, preparatory checklists of materials and props needed, patterns, lists of books for literacy building displays, activities that relate to the story and promote early literacy, and take-home reproducibles for caregivers that help them reinforce the six early literacy skills. Designed for PreK-Grade 3, the puppet plays are perfect for in-house storytime settings and for community outreach projects. Grades PreK-3.

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Iakovakis has created a 'stock company' of puppet actors to present basic early literacy skills. . . . Puppet Plays Plus may best serve as a launching pad for professionals wanting to blend puppets and early literacy by adapting versions of these scripts to use the puppets they already own. * School Library Journal *

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Laurel L. Iakovakis was a Children's Librarian and the District Youth Collection Development Librarian at Douglas County Libraries, Castle Rock, Colorado. She is currently employed by the Richardson Public Library, Richardson, Texas, where she works in the youth services department and provides outreach and storytime services.