"Open Sesame is an exciting, full-color series for children, featuring the world-famous Sesame Street characters. Students start "Open Sesame at the level appropriate to their oral language foundation and their familiarity with reading and writing in English. The "Student Books feature full-color illustrations and present conversations, songs, chants, stories, and poems. The "Teacher's Books are interleaved with "Student Book pages and provide a tapescript, a list of "Picture Cards, a word list, a list of materials, and reduced "Activity Book pages. The "Activity Books provide practice and reinforcement of the lessons. The "Cassettes contain the songs, chants, conversations, stories, poems, and tests included in the "Student Books. The full-color "Wall Charts are poster-size (17" x 21"), laminated enlargements of twenty selected topics pages, including feelings, clothing, colors, habitats, dinosaurs, and the solar system. Vocabulary, language focus, and two activities are listed on the back of each Wall Chart as well as in an accompanying booklet. The "Picture Cards, a 75-card set featuring 150 full-color illustrations, are keyed to activities suggested in the "Teacher's Books. The "Open Sesame Picture Dictionary presents more than 550 high-frequency words in thirty-four units. The 3 bilingual editions are: Spanish, Japanese, and Polish.