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Word on the Street: Challenge

From Sesame Street

Word on the Street: Challenge
1 minK1st2ndReading & Writing (ELA)
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Summary

A Muppet stops people on the street to ask what "challenge" means, then shows the real answer. Thirty seconds — ideal as a word-of-the-day hook before the lesson it belongs to.

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Discussion questions

Discussion

The word for this clip is "challenge."

  1. What did people on the street guess it meant?
  2. What does "challenge" really mean?
  3. Can you use "challenge" in a sentence about our classroom?
  4. What is another word that means something close to it?

Quick work-a-long

Vocabulary: challenge, meaning, definition.

Try it: Write "challenge" and draw a picture that shows what it means.