Teach Together Bundle : Teddy Talker

Build connections between speech sounds and literacy for students and families! Mouth Position Cards and the Teach Together Toolkit work as a set to help the child visualize and describe Teddy’s own production of 38 phonemes/speech sounds! Only Teddy Talker® has this special CUE system built into the visuals of our child-friendly bear to represent these features:

• voice: bowtie red=voice off; bowtie green=voice on

• nasal sounds: honey on Teddy's nose

• windy sounds: breath

Each phoneme has a corresponding rhyme that embeds the cues for phonetic placement, describing articulation in simple terms. That's 38 POEMS too!

This Bundle extends the learning into the home with the Teach Together Toolkit!

Children physically construct sounds using manipulatives for articulators and connect them to print using Teddy. Teddy's articulators move "first in the air, then on the bear!" while producing the sound. Sounds are connected to print with 5 LESSONS FOR EACH OF 38 PHONEMES.

1. Build and Say the sound (with paper Teddy and manipulatives)

2. See and Say the sound (withTeddy mouth picture)

3. Trace and Say the sound (connect sound to letter while tracing)

4. Rhyme related to the sound (Teddy's poem about the sound)

5. Write and Say the sound (write letter from memory while saying the sound.)

There are also generic pages that can be used with any sound to distribute practice across the week.

The kit also embeds early literacy and language experiences such as rhyming, spatial terms and interactive writing in a systematic and engaging way. Learn together with Teddy Talker™ through creative, hands-on and engaging manipulative-based activities!

Once you have taught the lesson, you can send the Toolpage home for extended practice. The family uses the SAME Teddy manipulatives, sounds and cues used in school or specialized settings. You teach together! There is information and ideas for families, data collection, Teddy's Visual Alphabet Chart and phonemic activities...all ready to go the next day for your classroom!

For the first time ever, these two complementary resources are packaged in one bundle