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Texas Gateway: Pbs Learning Media Tim Botsford, Fashionista | Word Girl
In this Word Girl episode, Mr. Botsford unknowingly starts the city's latest fashion trend. It shows that following fads can be silly.
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Texas Gateway: Electric Pinball: Ave, Ank, and Ang
A boy plays Electric Pinball making words containing the common endings "-ank," "-ang," and "-ave." This resource teaches reading, sight-reading, pronunciation, spelling, phonics, and decoding.
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Texas Gateway: Tips From the Playground: Qu
Reggie explains the relationship between "q" and "u," and the sound "qu" makes. This resource teaches reading, phonics, and decoding.
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Texas Gateway: Road Trip Short a & Long A
In the car with their father, Henry and Charlotte play a game collecting words containing the long and short "a" vowel sounds from signs and billboards along the road. This resources teaches reading, sight-reading, and decoding.
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Texas Gateway: R Blends
This resource group teaches students all about "r" consonant digraphs. It goes over common "r" blends, such as "tr" and "gr," and teaches students how to pronounce these blends.
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Texas Gateway: Shock & Friends Phonics Rap: Oe
Shock and his friend rap and beatbox using words that contain the "oe" vowel combination. This resource teaches reading, pronunciation, and decoding.
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Texas Gateway: Tips From the Playground: Kn, Gn, and Bt
Reggie discusses the silent letters in the "kn," "gn," and "bt" combinations. He advises his viewers that "the ghost is always first," meaning that in all three combinations only the second letter is pronounced. This resources teaches...
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Texas Gateway: Unforgettable Elephants: Nature
In this video segment from Nature, witness the joy an elephant family experiences when a new baby elephant is born. The newborn baby, Ebony, seemed to regard photographer and the documentary filmmaker as part of the family. One day Ebony...
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Texas Gateway: Chinese Folktale: The Little Rabbits
This video features the Chinese story "The Little Rabbits" in both English and Chinese. The story has elements of the Western stories "Little Red Riding Hood" and "The Three Little Pigs." Mama rabbit leaves her three little rabbits at...
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Texas Gateway: How to Use Reference Materials: No Nonsense Grammar
A dictionary is one of the most useful reference books anybody could ever use. Watch this video to learn how to properly understand a dictionary's formatting and content.
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Texas Gateway: Colombian Folktale: Pastorcita
This video features the Colombian story Pastorcita in both English and Spanish. Pastorcita has many elements that are similar to "Little Bo Peep." Pastoricta is a shepherd girl who has lost her sheep. When she does find them, they are...
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Texas Gateway: Relative Adverbs: No Nonsense Grammar
This video focuses on relative adverbs, words that talks about a place, time, or reason for something. Remember the three "w's": where, when, and why.
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Texas Gateway: Reflexive Pronouns and Subjects: No Nonsense Grammar
This video focuses on Reflexive pronouns; they reflect the subject of the sentence. A reflexive pronoun is a pronoun that is preceded or followed by the noun, adjective, adverb, or pronoun to which it refers within the same clause.
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Texas Gateway: Irregular Plural Nouns: No Nonsense Grammar
While plural nouns often indicate more than one of something with a simple "s" or "es," irregular plural nouns do not. They change the word entirely. Elf becomes elves, tooth becomes teeth.
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Texas Gateway: How to Use Prepositions: No Nonsense Grammar
This video focuses on using prepositions which indicate locations, whether physical or in time. Around, in, outside, before, during. Prepositions help us know the when and where.
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Texas Gateway: Music Video: Reading With Feeling: The Electric Company
The Burnham Brothers sing "Reading with Feeling," a song explaining the importance of reading with the feelings ascribed to the characters and events. This resource teaches reading techniques and fluency.
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Texas Gateway: Pbs Learning Media Mighty Bright Knigh: The Electric Company
Learn about the vocabulary words individual, opponent, merit, fortunately, and unfortunately with The Electric Company when a competition almost goes too far. Jessica and Manny compete to win the last copy of their favorite comic book,...
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Texas Gateway: Pressure: Martha Speaks: Pbs Kids Lab
Help children build vocabulary using this Martha Speaks video! Martha explains the meaning of the word "pressure."
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Texas Gateway: Kid Math's Coming to Dinner: Word Girl
In thus episode, Becky brings home her newest friend Rex, AKA Kid Math. They discuss having a secret identity while Becky's dad cooks.
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Road Trip: Oy
Charlotte and Henry play a game collecting and comparing words which use the "oi" and the "oy" letter combinations. This resource teaches reading, sight-reading, spelling, pronunciation, and decoding.
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Road Trip Long E
In the car with their father, Henry and Charlotte play a game collecting words containing the "ee" and "ie" vowel combinations from signs and billboards along the road. This resources teaches reading, sight-reading, and decoding
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Road Trip: Oo
Charlotte and Henry play a game comparing words which use the "oo" letter combination and the different sounds they make. This resource teaches reading, sight-reading, spelling, pronunciation, and decoding.
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Unmuffins
Learn about the vocabulary words unsure, unbelievably, undo, unfriendly, and unusual with The Electric Company in an undeniably exciting adventure. Something funny is going on. The Pranksters are being very helpful and The Electric...
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Off Target
A neighborhood kid Marcus Barnes has the power. The Electric Company tries to help Marcus improve at throwing wordballs so he can join The Electric Company. Meanwhile, Francine and Gilda ask Manny to build a machine that can help them...