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Let's Learn Blending Long Vowel (CVCe) Words
This video teaches how to blend long vowel words. We use CVCe words. Seeing the silent or magic e at the end of a word is a signal that the word may have a long vowel. Practice blending the sounds in words is an important step in...
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Let's Learn Blending Digraphs
This video teaches how to blend digraphs with short vowel words. Once kids know their letter sounds and digraphs, they are ready to begin putting sounds together to learn to read.
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Let's Learn Letter Sounds
This video teaches letter sounds as a way to get kids ready for reading and blending words. The alphabet and its basic 26 sounds are covered.
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The Clarinet and the Oboe
Nobel Laureate David Politzer (Caltech) relates how trying to mathematically quantify the difference in sound between an oboe and a clarinet is much more difficult than one might appreciate.
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The Analog Brain (2016)
Renowned polymath and mathematical physicist Freeman Dyson (IAS) describes some of his ideas about the nature of the brain.
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Embracing Risk
Freeman Dyson, Institute of Advanced Study, describes how both making mistakes and encountering a wide variety of views is a necessary part of a vibrant scientific atmosphere, describing the welcoming reaction cognitive scientists had to...
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The Listening Brain
Nobel Laureate David Politzer, Caltech, describes how understanding how and what we hear is much more complicated than most people - particularly physicists - think it is.
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Putting the Pieces Together
Neuroscientist Greg Hickok (UC Irvine) discusses his interests in sensory motor control and auditory processing, with direct implications for better understanding speech generation and much more.
Music Matters
What is Colour in Music - Music Appreciation
Colour in music can mean a number of different things. Some musicians experience Synesthesia in which particular notes, keys or chords are experienced directly in relation to particular colours. We talk about the Blues or about white...
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Five Senses: Part 2
"Five Senses: Part 2" models how to identify the five senses and how each is used.
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Poetic Sounds
A video entitled “Poetic Sounds” which explores sound devices used in poetry, highlighting examples from several works by Edgar Allan Poe.
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Soft c
“Soft c” explains how to recognize when the consonant c makes its hard sound and its soft sound.
Australian Children's Television Foundation
Australia's Native Dogs
Season 3, Dingoes part 1 The dingo is the only native dog of Australia. Kamil and Kayne are on a mission to find one of these canids. K'gari, also known as Fraser island, is a World Heritage site and a great place to see a dingo....
Weird History
History of the Waffle House
Weird History Food is gonna pull over and get a bite at the Waffle House. In 1955, two neighbors in Georgia opened up a restaurant. Since opening, The Waffle House has created its own culture, with its own unique language and customs,...
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Short Vowels
“Short Vowels” explores short vowel sounds and shares examples of words that include short vowel sounds.
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Syllable Drum: Clap to the Beat
A video entitled “Syllable Drum: Clap to the Beat” which models how to clap the syllables that make up words.
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Verbs of Yesterday and Today
“Verbs of Yesterday and Today” demonstrates how to use irregular past-tense verbs.
Learn French With Alexa
What NOT to pronounce in French (Learn French With Alexa)
Alexa gives you a great tip on the letters you should not pronounce at the end of a French word.
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How to pronounce "Œ" sound in French (Learn French With Alexa)
Alexa teaches you how to pronounce the "Œ" sound in French.
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How to pronounce PSY, PSO & PSEU in French
Alexa teaches you how to pronounce PSY, PSO & PSEU in French.
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How to pronounce "ON" sound in French (Learn French With Alexa)
Alexa teaches you how to pronounce the "ON" sound in French.
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How to pronounce "EU" sound in French (Learn French With Alexa)
Alexa teaches you how to pronounce the "EU" sound in French.
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How to pronounce "EN, EM, AN & AM" sounds in French (Learn French With Alexa)
Alexa teaches you how to pronounce the "EN, EM, AN & AM" sounds in French.