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WordGirl: Details

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WordGirl: Details
1 min2nd3rd4thReading & Writing (ELA)
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Summary

A short PBS KIDS WordGirl vocabulary clip. The word is details — the small, individual facts or pieces of information that make up the whole. A one-minute lead-in to close reading.

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Discussion

This clip teaches the word details — the small facts or pieces that make up the whole.

  1. What are details? Why do good readers and writers pay attention to them?
  2. Share two details from a story or picture in the room.
  3. Use details in a sentence.

Quick work-a-long

Word: details — small individual facts or pieces of information.

Try it: Look at any picture and write three details you notice.

WordGirl: Details — TV on a Rolling Cart