Summary
A Muppet stops people on the street to ask what "compare" 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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Teaching resources
Discussion questions
Discussion
The word for this clip is "compare."
- What did people on the street guess it meant?
- What does "compare" really mean?
- Can you use "compare" in a sentence about our classroom?
- What is another word that means something close to it?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: compare, meaning, definition.
Try it: Write "compare" and draw a picture that shows what it means.