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    CONCEPTS OF COMPREHENSION: EXPLICIT INFORMATION 6th GRADE UNIT

    Reading Passage

    Puppet Power!
    When most people think about puppets, images from childhood come
    to mind: Kermit the Frog and Elmo from Sesame Street, perhaps.
    Today, however, puppets seem to be getting out of hand, popping up
    in TV commercials, and on Broadway and on the Japanese stage.

    In New York City, puppets are singing opera. They are reciting
    Shakespeare. The stage production of The Lion King uses life-size
    elephant, giraffe, and hyena puppets. The Broadway show Little Shop
    of Horrors featured a life-size singing Venuss flytrap puppet. In Japan,
    bunraku, a serious form of puppet theater, is very popular.

    Puppets come in all shapes, sizes, and materials. They can be simple
    cardboard cutouts or elaborate foam-rubber forms. They can be
    porcelain marionettes, puppets that dangle from strings. Simple
    puppets can be operated by a single finger. Other puppets require a
    highly skilled team of three or four people to work them. Puppets have
    been around for centuries.

    "Sometimes we want things that hark back1 to a more innocent


    time," said one puppeteer.

    1
    hark back: to recall something earlier

    Text: Copyright 2007 Weekly Reader Corporation. All rights reserved.


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    2010 Urban Education Exchange. All rights reserved.

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