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What's This Character Thinking?

What's This Character Thinking?

Season 2025 Episode 17
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Culturally Relevant Texts

Culturally Relevant Texts

Season 2025 Episode 18
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Posing with Letter Sounds

Posing with Letter Sounds

Season 2025 Episode 19
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Creating a Family Song

Creating a Family Song

Season 2025 Episode 20
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Stories and Sequencing

Stories and Sequencing

Season 2025 Episode 21
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Shades of Meaning

Shades of Meaning

Season 2025 Episode 22
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Language and Experience

Language and Experience

Season 2025 Episode 23
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Rhyming up the stairs

Rhyming up the stairs

Season 2025 Episode 24
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Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing

Season 2025 Episode 25
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Matching Antonyms

Matching Antonyms

Season 2025 Episode 26
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Prepositions of place

Prepositions of place

Season 2025 Episode 27
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Recognizing Signs

Recognizing Signs

Season 2025 Episode 28
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Learning to Read

Blending Compound Words

Season 2025 Episode 16

Most kids can recognize simpler words, but by introducing compound words, they can build on what they already know. Use hand motions to pair parts of compound words and make learning fun!

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Performance Story Time
1:04
Watching a story performed transforms text into an engaging multisensory experience.
Using Sensory Elements in Story
1:04
This activity brings deeper engagement with a book with sensory elements and role playing.
Identifying Common Contractions
1:04
This activity focuses on learning the predictable patterns used in common contractions.
Sight Words
1:04
This fun activity teaches and reinforces common sight words to build reading fluency.
Authors and Illustrators
1:04
This activity highlights the work that an author and illustrator do to build appreciation.
Mystery Inferencing
1:04
This activity practices drawing conclusions based on evidence within a story.
Dictionary Word Roulette
1:04
To build vocabulary, an adult and child can use a dictionary to find a new word to learn.
Letter Writing
1:04
This activity helps a child express their fondness for someone by writing them a letter.
Reading with Intonation
1:04
This activity demonstrates the importance of tone in reading to convey various emotions.
Assisted Storytelling
1:04
This activity helps children create a story using a character and setting from a book.\
Comparing and Contrasting 2 Texts
1:04
To recognize story elements, a child reads two books noting similarities and differences.
Completing the Lyric
1:04
Young readers can practice spelling by learning the lyrics to their favorite songs.
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