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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Shock & Friends Phonics Rap: Ue

1st - 3rd
Shock and James play "True or Not True" using words that contain the letters "ue" to demonstrate the sound made by that letter combination. The goal of this resource is reading, sight-reading, spelling, and decoding.
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Texas Gateway: Electric Company: Shock & Friends Phonics Rap: Ai

1st - 3rd
Shock and Lisa rap using words that contain the "ai" vowel combination. This resource teaches reading, sight-reading, decoding, and pronunciation.
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Tips From the Playground: Oe

1st - 3rd
Reggie explains the different sounds made by the "oe" letter combination. He uses the sentence, "Your toes come before your shoes," to help students distinguish between the two sounds while reading. This resource teaches reading,...
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Commercial: Pictures and Words

1st - 3rd
This commercial demonstrates how pictures and words work together to tell a story. This resource teaches print literacy, and helps students understand how different types of media may be used in storytelling.
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Texas Gateway: Forming and Using Possessive Nouns: No Nonsense Grammar

1st - 4th Standards
This video focuses on forming and using possessive nouns; they show when a noun belongs to someone. It is often indicated with an apostrophe "s," but when words end in "s" only an apostrophe is added.
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Texas Gateway: A Clubhouse Mystery: Iptv Kids Clubhouse

Pre-K - 1st
In this clip from IPTV KIDS Clubhouse, Dan Wardell and DanBot receive a mysterious letter in the mail and must follow clues to discover what the letter is communicating and who it is from! A link is provided for the episode.
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Texas Gateway: Martha's Memory: Martha Speaks: Pbs Kids Lab

2nd - 3rd
Help children understand point of view in storytelling and build vocabulary using this Martha Speaks video! Martha and friends discuss what the words "certain" and "sure" mean, and Martha shares her version of how a game they played ended.