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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: The Electric Company: Comic Cam: Lazy F
Willie Reale does a standup routine about how "ph" and "gh" make the same sound as "f." This resource teaches consonant sounds and letter combinations, reading, sight-reading, spelling, decoding, and phonics.
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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.
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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: Little Ol' Lucky Day: Word Girl
In this episode of WordGirl, Becky registers for a mini golf tournament where she learns about honor in this competitive sport.
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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.