Building Vocabulary: First Grade.(Video Recording Review)

(Take Me to Your Readers Series) videocassette. color. 11:40 min. SVE & Churchill Media. 2002. #97716-HAVTX. $39.95.

K-Gr 2--Part of a series designed to nurture fundamental reading goals at beginning levels, this video focuses on the concept of building vocabulary. The story is simple--aliens have arrived on Earth and want to learn to read. In this episode, the aliens are building vocabulary. A male narrator provides background information and introduces the concept. Each character has a distinct voice as two simple vignettes, showing people of different ethnicities, are played out. In the first scenario, the aliens are visiting a dinosaur display at the museum. Some …