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Mother Phonics, a grinning felt puppet with big eyes, comes to life in the hands of Linda Smith as she introduces one of her children, Letter B, who has his bouncing ball.
"Children will listen to a puppet a lot quicker than they'll listen to a teacher," Mrs. Smith told early-childhood educators who took a workshop Friday morning about how to teach with the puppets. "Each puppet has their own personality and turns students on to reading."See the full content of this document
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Puppets Become Teaching Tool
Mrs. Smith and Beverly McGee, who used the cloth puppets to teach phonics in their classrooms 10 years ago in ...
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