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Between the Lions; Popcorn Popper, The

03/01/2000

The Popcorn Popper


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Series
Between the Lions
Program
Popcorn Popper, The
Program Number

116 (wt 122)

Series Description

BETWEEN THE LIONS is designed to open up a world of literature and learning for 4-7 year-old children. The daily, half-hour series is named for a family of lions -- Theo and Cleo and their cubs, Lionel and Leona. They run a library where books, words, and story characters come vividly and magically to life, transforming the sometimes confusing process of learning to read into an entertaining adventure for young viewers. Each of BETWEEN THE LIONS' 30 episodes centers on a book or other reading material that the lions and their friends discover in the library. In addition to its lions family, BETWEEN THE LIONS features an eclectic cast of characters including Click the Mouse, the library's cyborg communications expert; Cliff Hanger, a swashbuckling comic book hero who escapes from sticky situations through quick thinking and literacy skills; Tiger Words, a multi-talented sports figure who plays with vowels and consonants instead of golf balls and tees; Martha Reads and the Vowelles, a rhythm and blues group that sings only vowel sounds, and the stalwart knights of "Gawain's World" whose jousting matches create words instead of wounds. At the core of each episode is a state-of the-art curriculum designed to teach reading skills. Several of the nation's leading experts on reading and literacy have worked with the producers to develop a viewing experience that not only will motivate kids to read and write, but give them the skills to do so. Series release date: 4/2000

Program Description

Season One Broadcast 2000 Lionel and Leona persuade Click to take a magic popcorn popper out of a book and then can't make it stop popping!

Key word: pop Word family: -op (-om, -ot, -ox) Target sound: short "o" High-frequency sight words: it, mom, not, on, pop New vocabulary: designated, poplar, popular, instructions

Working Program Number: 122

Asset Type

Broadcast program

Media Type

Video

Genres
Children's
Topics
Literature
Creators
Stoia, Judy (Series Producer)
Citation
Chicago: “Between the Lions; Popcorn Popper, The,” 03/01/2000, GBH Archives, accessed October 11, 2024, http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_41FEE562D57F48BEBDBE2EA5290A10A9.
MLA: “Between the Lions; Popcorn Popper, The.” 03/01/2000. GBH Archives. Web. October 11, 2024. <http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_41FEE562D57F48BEBDBE2EA5290A10A9>.
APA: Between the Lions; Popcorn Popper, The. Boston, MA: GBH Archives. Retrieved from http://openvault.wgbh.org/catalog/V_41FEE562D57F48BEBDBE2EA5290A10A9
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