Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Reading Strategies

1st - 3rd Standards
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...
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Road Trip: Long U

1st - 3rd
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,...
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Words From the Wild: R

1st - 3rd Standards
Jahreese identifies words containing the letter "R" around his neighborhood in Harlem. This resource teaches reading, decoding, spelling, and vocabulary.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Music Video: Capitalize

1st - 3rd Standards
Lisa sings "Time to Capitalize" to teach children the rules of capitalization. This resource teaches capitalization, punctuation, spelling, and the concept behind proper nouns.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Tips From the Playground: X

K - 1st
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.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Lights, Camera, Beetles | the Electric Company

K - 1st
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...
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Comic Cam: Lazy F

K - 1st
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.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Words From the Wild: F

1st - 3rd
Faith and Tiffany search through their home for items containing the letter "F." This resource teaches reading, decoding, and spelling.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Tips From the Playground: Qu

K - 1st
Reggie explains the relationship between "q" and "u," and the sound "qu" makes. This resource teaches reading, phonics, and decoding.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Road Trip Short a & Long A

K - 1st
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.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: R Blends

1st - 3rd Standards
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.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: Shock & Friends Phonics Rap: Oe

1st - 3rd
Shock and his friend rap and beatbox using words that contain the "oe" vowel combination. This resource teaches reading, pronunciation, and decoding.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Road Trip: Oy

K - 1st
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.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Road Trip Long E

K - 1st
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
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Tips From the Playground: Ou/ow

1st - 3rd
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,...
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Road Trip: Oo

1st - 3rd
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.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Unmuffins

1st - 3rd
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...
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

Texas Gateway: The Electric Company: Off Target

1st - 3rd
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...
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

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.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

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.
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

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,...
Instructional Video
Texas Education Agency

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.
Instructional Video
PBS

Pbs: The Electric Company: Electric Sound Off N Blends

1st - 3rd Standards
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...