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The Letter People


I vividly remember an educational television show back in kindergarten
(I am 19, this was back in 1992) an entire series my teacher, Ms. Kelly, showed the class throughout the year that still stays in my memory to this very day.

This show was called The Letter People and was created in 1972 by a group in Waterbury, Connecticut called New Dimensions in Education.

The principles were simple:

This was an educational show that taught children in kindergarten through first grade how to read using puppet characters to represent letters of the alphabet.

The Letter People Theme Song was sung aloud and repeated by the students before every episode:

Come and meet the Letter People
Come and visit in the family
Words are made of Letter People
A, B, C, D, Follow me

The original Letter People were shaped in a quickly-identifiable fashion. All the consonants were called "Letter Boys," and the vowels were "Letter Girls."
It was a perfect compliment to Title IX that Letter......


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