Getting Ready to Read

Name: Getting Ready to Read
Genre: family
Released: 1992
Duration: 30 min
Cast: Sonia Manzano, Caroll Spinney, Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Fran Brill

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A Sesame Street educational special using a hotline framing device to promote literacy through curated inserts and direct audience engagement.

Family · 30 min · 1992

The video promotes reading skills with various Sesame inserts, along with a new framing sequence where Big Bird operates his own "Reading Hotline."

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director

Jon Stone
lyricist

Jeff Moss
writer

Ray Sipherd
writer

Sara Compton
actor

as Maria

Sonia Manzano

Getting Ready to Read

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