Bagging It With Puppets Paper Bag Puppets to Introduce the Alphabet

Bagging It With Puppets Paper Bag Puppets to Introduce the Alphabet by Wick, Karen. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780822406778.

Introduce your students to the letters and sounds of the alphabet with this collection of 31 colorful and fun-to-make alphabet puppets. To help your students connect alphabet letters with their sounds, a puppet is provided for each consonant, short vowel, and long vowel. Completely illustrated step-by-step instructions and full-size reproducible patterns make puppet construction simple and fun. The enrichment activity suggestions in the books introduction are classroom-tested and will help you integrate the puppets into your curriculum. As your students create each puppet, from Astronaut Annie to Zeke Zebra, they will develop essential skills such as eye-hand coordination, letter/sound recognition, and visual discrimination. These charming puppets combine art and language arts and are certain to delight young children. Gloria Mehrens and Karen Wick have used these puppets successfully in their classes for many years. And now you can, too!