Getting Ready to Read
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Getting Ready to Read is a My Sesame Street Home Video release from 1986. Big Bird hosts Big Bird's Reading Hotline, where he answers questions about reading. He teaches a boy, Sam, how to read so that he no longer has to ask Big Bird to read a cat food label. Big Bird often asks Maria for help on questions that he doesn't know how to answer. One caller accidentally calls Oscar the Grouch's grouch reading hotline.
Segments
- Grover talks about the word "walk" (EKA: Episode 1858)
- Ernie and Bert: The Rhyming Game (EKA: Episode 0798)
- Animated poem about animals taking away the narrator's clothes (EKA: Episode 1839)
- Cookie Monster recites a poem about galoshes (EKA: Episode 1933)
- Fat Cat with Bip Bippadotta and the Anything Muppets (EKA: Episode 0536)
- The Word Family Song: OP family (by two Anything Muppets)
- Night Bright animation teaching words that ends with "en" (EKA: Episode 2558)
- Gimme Mud with the Worms
- Cookie Monster and the word "Food" (EKA: Episode 0723)
- Sound it Out with Same Sound Brown and Farley
- animated segment: B... us (EKA: Episode 0796)
- Two-Headed Monster: Run (EKA: Episode 1446)
Cast
Characters in new footage:
Characters in old sketches:
- Ernie, Bert, Cookie Monster, Kermit the Frog, Grover, Farley, Same Sound Brown, Two-Headed Monster, Bip Bippadotta, Anything Muppets
Performers:
- Caroll Spinney as Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch.
- Frank Oz as Cookie Monster, Bert, and Grover.
- Jerry Nelson as Farley and Two-Headed Monster.
- Richard Hunt as Rocky and Two Headed Monster.
- Fran Brill as Pammy.
- Kevin Clash as Sam and Ferlinghetti Donizetti.
- Martin Robinson as monster.
- Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog ,Ernie and Bip Bippadotta .
- Pam Arciero as others.
- Northern Calloway as Same Sound Brown (uncredited)
