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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Tips From the Playground: Ou/ow
Reggie discusses the pronunciation of "ou" and "ow," and how to figure out which one goes in which word. He uses the phrase "oh you go first" to demonstrate that "ou" will be used when the sound appears in the first syllable of the word,...
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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...
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Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Shock & Friends Phonics Rap: Ue
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
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
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
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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Pbs: The Electric Company: Electric Sound Off N Blends
Marcus and Annie play Electric Sound Off. In order to win, they must create sentences using the most "n-blends," words in which the letter "n" works with another letter. This resource teaches children how to decode and pronounce words...