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NARRATOR: It's Elmo's birthday on Sesame
Street, you're invited.
From the most trusted brand in preschool entertainment and
publisher of best selling apps and the literacy experts at
Step into Reading comes Elmo's Big Birthday Bash, a Sesame
Street step into reading app.
This three part interactive beginner story will get your
preschooler excited to start reading as they learn and play
with everyone's favorite birthday monster, Elmo.
Featuring a brand new story with over 30 interactive pages
and three educational games, Elmo's Big Birthday Bash helps
your child develop their reading skills while building
confidence and gaining fluency as they laugh along with Elmo
and his friends.
Designed with research conducted with real kids and
their parents, beginning readers can follow along with
the story as it's read aloud--
TALKING BOOK: He used scissors.
Snip.
Snip.
NARRATOR: --and can tap on the page to associate words with
their picture clues.
For eager early readers, each word can be tapped to sound it
out loud, including selected vocabulary words in red that
are defined so the reader can learn more.
TALKING BOOK: Birthday.
A birthday is the day of the year you were born on.
When is your birthday?
GIRL: November 18th.
NARRATOR: Recording functionality even allows
parents to record the story, so it's even more meaningful
to a young reader.
Preschoolers will especially love playing with Elmo in any
of the three new games designed to practice specific
early literacy skills that are building
blocks for strong readers.
Players identify uppercase and lowercase letters.
TALKING BOOK: F. Feelings.
ELMO: You did it!
NARRATOR: Practice their letter sounds--
TALKING BOOK: Tambourine.
ELMO: Yay!
Let's keep playing.
NARRATOR: --and work on rhyming pairs with Elmo.
TALKING BOOK: What rhymes with mouse?
ELMO: House rhymes.
GIRL: It rhymes, Mom.
NARRATOR: With lots of fun surprises along the way.
ELMO: This is fun.
Ha-ha-ha.
NARRATOR: Best selling app publisher, Sesame Workshop and
Random House children's books are proud to help your child
step into reading and get them ready to read with Elmo.
TALKING BOOK: Party Time.
Hurray!
NARRATOR: So come play, read, and learn with Elmo and his
friends at Elmo's Big Birthday Bash.
Now available on the iPad.