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Texas Gateway: Kids in Motion: Action Verbs
In this 3rd through 5th grade video, students connect exercise and literacy. The teacher reads a sentence aloud and students must identify the action verb that was read and then act it out accordingly. This is a great lesson to combine...
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Texas Gateway: Book Buddies: Engaging With Literature
Watch as two teachers create Book Buddies with 3rd and 5th graders in this half-hour video from "Engaging with Literature". Book Buddies offers students a chance to explore a book they are familiar with in new ways.
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Texas Gateway: Read a Good Book: Communicating by Drawing: Iptv Kids Clubhouse
IPTV KIDS Clubhouse kids read and discover more about communication! In this segment, kids go to the library and try to get their friends to guess their favorite book titles without using any words, only drawings and actions.
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Texas Gateway: Bananas: The Electric Company
Learn about the vocabulary words binoculars, discover, observe, flustered, and admit with The Electric Company when family members need assistance. Annie's Uncle Sigmund needs The Electric Company's help to talk to an old friend who has...
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Texas Gateway: Nature Cat: Let's Save the Marsh!: Grade 3
Nature Cat and friends visited the marsh in the story segment Muck Amok. Learn along with them as they discover more about marshes and conservation. Discover the challenges of pollution with Daisy, explore the muck beneath the surface...
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Texas Gateway: How to Use Commas With Conjunctions: No Nonsense Grammar
Conjunctions can join two separate clauses, but sometimes they need commas. Learn how to do so correctly.
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Texas Gateway: How to Use Conjunctions: No Nonsense Grammar
Conjunctions are a part of a speech that connects different parts of a sentence, such as groups of words, clauses, or phrases.
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Reading Strategies
This video [1:40] teaches students a wide variety of reading strategies. It touches on such issues as careful reading and follow-through, context clues, capitalization, transition words, features of printed text, and the relationship...
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Texas Gateway: Activity: Sentence Fluency: Word Girl
In this WordGirl lesson, build on words students already know to help them learn and apply new vocabulary and create different kinds of sentences.
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Texas Gateway: Kids in Motion: Minute to Win It
This activity is based on the popular game show, "Minute to Win It!" Students form into groups of 4-5 and perform various exercises for one minute in order to gain points. Different exercises such as hopping on one foot and squat thrusts...
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Texas Gateway: Kids in Motion: Antonyms and Synonyms
In this video, students learn about synonyms and antonyms through physical activity. The teacher calls out a series of commands and the students perform the synonyms (the same as the movement called out). Then they go through the same...
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Texas Gateway: A Gardener's Poem: Think Garden
[Accessible by TX Educators. Free Registration/Login Required] This video from KET's Think Garden collection explores the many roles of a gardener through a short, fun poem. This video is available in both English and Spanish audio,...
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Road Trip: Long U
Knowing that "ew" and "u" produce the same sound, Henry and Charlotte play a game collecting words using those letters/letter combinations from signs and billboards along the road. This resource teaches reading, sight-reading, spelling,...
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Words From the Wild: R
Jahreese identifies words containing the letter "R" around his neighborhood in Harlem. This resource teaches reading, decoding, spelling, and vocabulary.
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Texas Gateway: How to Use the Correct Capitalization: No Nonsense Grammar
Capitalizing is extremely important. Not only is it proper writing, but it also makes writing look polished and finished. Learn what should be capitalized and what shouldn't in this video.
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Texas Gateway: What Are Collective Nouns: No Nonsense Grammar
This video focuses on the collective noun, a word that refers to a group, such as a collection, a herd, a team.
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Music Video: Capitalize
Lisa sings "Time to Capitalize" to teach children the rules of capitalization. This resource teaches capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and the concept behind proper nouns.
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Texas Gateway: Comic Cam: Expressive Reading
Jennifer Barber introduces the different characters she created for her stories when she was seven years old. She reads one of her stories using different voices to differentiate between the three characters. This resource teaches...
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Tips From the Playground: X
In this video [1:33] Reggie explains how to pronounce different words containing the letter "x." This resource teaches reading, reading strategies, spelling, phonics, and decoding.
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Texas Gateway: Sign the Sing a Long Song | Sesame Street
Sign language transforms this popular nursery rhyme. This bilingual sing-along teaches "If you're happy and you know it" in English and Sign language.
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Texas Gateway: Wheel of Fitness
This K-5 video is similar to Wheel of Fortune. Students are chosen to spin the Wheel of Fitness and perform the exercise shown. These movements are fun and engaging while ranging from individual, partner to group exercises that include...
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Texas Gateway: Lights, Camera, Beetles | the Electric Company
Jessica and Hector plan to surprise their cousin with a bug zoo for his birthday party. When Francine steals the prized rhino beetle, it's up to the Electric Company to get it back in time to save the party. Explore the vocabulary words...
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Texas Gateway: Music Video: Chunking
Jessica and Shock rap about chunking, a method used to break down multi-syllable words. This resource teaches reading, sight-reading, decoding, and spelling.
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Texas Gateway: Words From the Wild: F
Faith and Tiffany search through their home for items containing the letter "F." This resource teaches reading, decoding, and spelling.