Elmer and Wilbur¶
▶️ Watch & Read Along¶
📖 About the Book¶
When Elmer and the other elephants search for Wilbur, they have trouble finding him because he is a ventriloquist and they keep looking in the wrong places.
🧠 Read Together¶
Tips for 🧸 Picture Book Pals (ages 3–5). Reading together for just 15 minutes a day builds vocabulary, focus and a lifelong love of stories.
- Look at the cover together and ask: “What do you think this story is about?”
- Turn on captions (CC) so your child sees the words while hearing them.
- Pause and ask “What do you think will happen next?” There are no wrong answers!
- Hunt for letters: can your child spot the first letter of their name on screen?
- Ask your child to retell the story in three parts: beginning, middle, end.
- Draw a favorite picture from the story and label it together.
- Who was your favorite character in Elmer and Wilbur, and why?
- What was the problem in the story? How did it get solved?
- If you could change the ending, what would happen instead?
- How do you think the main character felt at the end?
🔤 Word Explorer¶
Treasure words hiding in this book. Pause the video when you hear one and talk about what it means!
