Getting Ready to Read



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"
 * Ernie and Bert: The Rhyming Game
 * Animated poem about animals taking away the narrator's clothes
 * Cookie Monster recites a poem about galoshes
 * Fat Cat with Bip Bippadotta and the Anything Muppets
 * The Word Family Song: OP family (by two Anything Muppets)
 * Night Bright animation teaching words that end with "en"
 * Gimme Mud with the Worms
 * Cookie Monster and the word "Food"
 * Sound it Out with Same Sound Brown and Farley
 * Animated segment: B... us
 * Two-Headed Monster: Run

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Cast
Characters in new footage:
 * Big Bird, Sam, Rocky, Pammy, Oscar the Grouch, Maria, Honkers, Ferlinghetti Donizetti

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 others.
 * Kevin Clash as Sam and Ferlinghetti Donizetti.
 * Martin Robinson as monster.
 * Jim Henson as Kermit the Frog ,Ernie and Bip Bippadotta.
 * Pam Arciero as Pammy and others.
 * Northern Calloway as Same Sound Brown (uncredited)