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Overview
of TV411 Materials
TV411 on Video
TV411, the television show which airs on public
television and cable stations nationwide, is the foundation
of our curriculum. There are 30 half-hour, magazine-style episodes available
on video, each made up of discrete segments, typically 4-5 minutes long.
The show features a cast of fictional TV411 characters and a range of real-life
authors, artists, athletes and adult learners, modeling the reading, writing
and math skills they use in real-life. For example, a carpenter demonstrates
how math and measurements are critical to her work, and poet Jimmy Baca
uses poetry to teach critical reading and summarizing skills to students.
The series is non-sequential (you can watch the episodes in any order,
or watch individual segments) and recursive (we revisit topics in different
segments, episodes, and contexts).
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