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Creating a Family Song

Season 2025 Episode 20
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Stories and Sequencing

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Shades of Meaning

Shades of Meaning

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Language and Experience

Language and Experience

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Rhyming up the stairs

Rhyming up the stairs

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Foreshadowing

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Matching Antonyms

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Prepositions of place

Prepositions of place

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Recognizing Signs

Recognizing Signs

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Completing the Lyric

Completing the Lyric

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Comparing and Contrasting 2 Texts

Comparing and Contrasting 2 Texts

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Assisted Storytelling

Assisted Storytelling

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Learning to Read

Posing with Letter Sounds

Season 2025 Episode 19

While learning letter sounds, students can pose their bodies in the shape of letters to connect their shape and sound. Being physically active makes this crucial literacy skill fun to practice.

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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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