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1 online resource (streaming video file) (14 min. 47 sec.) ; 88346321 bytes |
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Words And Pictures ; Series 1, Episode 8 |
| Summary |
Today's story The Kites is from Days with Frog and Toad by Arnold Lobel (World's Work, 1980; Puffin Books, 1984). When Frog and Toad go out into the meadow to fly a kite it proves more difficult than they had supposed. Frog makes helpful suggestions to Toad but each try ends in failure. The birds' negative comments are less than helpful. In the end however the kite does fly and even the birds cannot climb so high into the sky. A kicking and kissing kangaroo introduces this week's initial consonant and there is a lively performance by The Kangaroo from Wolloomooloo from Tiddlywinks by Joy Cowley and Rodney McRae (Arnold-Wheaton pbk, 1986).This series aims to encourage children in the early stages of reading, mainly through the enjoyment of shared stories, rhymes and reading practice; to help them to develop the skill of anticipation in reading for meaning; to demonstrate the differences in letter forms and 'sounds', concentrating on the consonants and blends in the initial position and using this letter knowledge as an aid to reading.Through the use of action, animation and imagery, the programs should sustain the children's desire to read while providing practice in using letter knowledge, language structure and contextual clues to develop mastery of the reading process.**Please note that this program/series has been created from masters kindly provided by DECS Tape Services in South Australia. These recordings have been collected over a period dating back to the early 1990s and as such, the picture quality may be of variable standard |
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Broadcast 1991-06-17 at 22:00:00 |
| Notes |
Classification: G |
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Alphabet rhymes.
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Children's stories.
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Frog and Toad together (Lobel, Arnold)
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School children -- Books and reading.
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United Kingdom.
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Streaming video
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