Mighty Bright Knight
From The Electric Company (2009) · 2009
Summary
Jessica and Manny both wait eagerly to get the newest issue of Mighty Bright Knight, a popular comic book. With only one copy left, the owner of the comic-book shop sets up a riddling scavenger hunt, and promises the book to the winner. Manny and Jessica compete with their partners: Jessica and Hector vs. Manny and Annie Scrambler. Guest Starring: John Ellison Conlee Villains: Manny, Annie Words: Individual, opponent, merit, fortunately, unfortunately Note: The sequel to this episode is Mighty Bright Fight; also, this is the first episode without a song during the story portion of the show. Like every Electric Company adventure, the story hangs on reading, decoding, and vocabulary under pressure.
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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
Every Electric Company episode builds its story around wordballs — words the team reads, decodes, and uses under pressure. Watch for the vocabulary the episode leans on and how the characters puzzle words out.
- Which words did the Electric Company have to read or decode to solve the problem?
- How did a character figure out a word they didn't know at first?
- Where could you use one of this episode's words this week?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: decode, wordball, clue, solve.
Try it: Keep a wordball list while you watch — every word the show spotlights goes on the board, and each student picks one to use in a sentence afterward.