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00:06Martha was an average dog.
00:09She went and and.
00:11But when she ate some alphabet soup,
00:13then what happened was bizarre.
00:15On the way to Martha's stomach,
00:17the letters lost their way.
00:19They traveled to her brain and...
00:21She's got a lot to say.
00:24Now she speaks.
00:25How now, brown cow?
00:26Martha speaks.
00:27Yeah, she speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks.
00:31What's a caboose?
00:32What are we eating again?
00:33Martha speaks.
00:34Hey Joe, what do you know?
00:35My name's not Joe.
00:36She's not always right, but still that Martha speaks.
00:40Hi there!
00:41She's got her voice, she's ready to shout.
00:43Martha will tell you what it's all about.
00:45Sometimes wrong, but seldom doubt.
00:47Martha will tell you what it's all about.
00:50That dog's you.
00:51Testing, one, two.
00:52Hear her speak.
00:54Martha speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks and speaks.
00:56Communicates, enumerates, elucidates, exaggerates, indicates and explicates,
01:00bloviates and overstates and hyperventilates.
01:03Martha to reiterate, Martha speaks.
01:06On this bank where the wild time blows,
01:09hearken to our tale of poesy and prose.
01:12Today's show is all about poetry.
01:14Methinks the air goes denser,
01:16perfumed perhaps by some unseen censer.
01:19Watch out for words like nervous, struggle and hesitant.
01:23Hear a tale of words set free.
01:25Roaring, zooming, a verbal grand prix.
01:28I have no idea what that means.
01:30Watch out for words to do with poetry, prose and metaphors.
01:33And we'll see you at the end of the show.
01:36Nobody here likes a wet dog.
01:43No one wants anything to do with a dog that's wet from being out in the rain.
01:48Or retrieving a stick from a lake.
01:50Stop!
01:51Look how she wanders around the crowded pub tonight.
01:54Going from one person to another.
01:56Hoping for a pat on the head, a rug behind the ears,
01:59something that could be given with one hand,
02:01without even wrinkling the conversation.
02:06But everyone pushes her away.
02:08Some with a knee, others with the sole of a boot.
02:10Even the children who don't realize she's wet,
02:13until they go to pet her, push her away,
02:15then wipe their hands on their clothes.
02:17And whenever she heads towards me,
02:19I show her my palm and she turns aside.
02:22Oh stranger of the future, oh inconceivable being,
02:25whatever the shape of your house,
02:27however you scoot from place to place,
02:29no matter how strange and colorless the clothes you may wear,
02:32I bet nobody there likes a wet dog either.
02:36I bet everyone in your pub, even the children, pushes her away.
02:41That was awesome.
02:43That's exactly what it's like to be a dog.
02:45I thought you liked that.
02:47We're studying poetry this week.
02:49Plus we have to write one ourselves.
02:51Ugh.
02:52Hang on.
02:53That was a poem?
02:54Yup.
02:55It's by Billy Collins.
02:56But it didn't rhyme.
02:57I thought poems had to rhyme.
02:59You know, like songs, only without all that annoying singing.
03:03Well, a poem is like a song that you speak instead of sing.
03:06Some poems rhyme, some don't.
03:08The most important thing about poems is that words and poems
03:11are chosen for how they sound and what they mean.
03:13That's confusing.
03:15If a poem doesn't rhyme, how do I know it's really a poem?
03:18If I may interject,
03:19Ms. Klusky read us this thing by a guy named Kenneth Koch.
03:22He says that a sign that says,
03:24No dogs allowed on the beach isn't poetry.
03:27Okay, so far.
03:29But a sign that says,
03:30No dogs or logs allowed on the beach.
03:33No poodle however trim.
03:35No dachshund unable to swim.
03:37Is a poem.
03:38Duh.
03:39Because it rhymes.
03:40Hmm.
03:41You've got a point.
03:42But it also uses rhythm and interesting words.
03:45Just like the poem about the wet dog.
03:47Cold apple, TD?
03:48Sure.
03:49Ms. Klusky says,
03:50Poetry is words that sound better and mean more.
03:53Well, I'm more.
03:54More confused than ever.
03:55Well, I'll just have to read you some more poems
03:57and then maybe you'll understand.
03:58Sounds good to me.
03:59Read away.
04:02Everyone here can read and write.
04:03The dog's in poetry.
04:04The cat's in the others in prose.
04:06Cool.
04:07Who wrote that one?
04:08Billy Collins.
04:09The same poet who wrote the other one.
04:11A poet is a person who writes poems?
04:14Yep.
04:15Well, I have to say,
04:16that Billy Collins is one poet who really understands dogs.
04:20Wait a minute.
04:21No human understands dogs that well.
04:26Are you saying what I think you're saying?
04:29It has to be.
04:30Billy Collins isn't human at all.
04:32He's a dog.
04:34Wait.
04:35Hang on.
04:36That doesn't make any sense.
04:37Of course it does.
04:38It makes perfect sense.
04:40Look.
04:41There are billions and billions of planets in the universe.
04:44Right?
04:45Right.
04:46But what is that?
04:47Uh-uh.
04:48And you know how Truman says that statistically speaking,
04:50Earth can't be the only planet with life?
04:53So by that logic,
04:54how can Martha be the only talking dog ever?
04:57Flipsoflacto.
04:58Billy Collins equals talking dog.
05:01Her mouth is moving, but no words are coming out.
05:04Behold the awesome power of truth.
05:11I'm writing a poem about Nelson.
05:13I'm thinking of writing one about my favorite drawing pencil.
05:16Ugh.
05:17Why does it have to be a poem?
05:18Why can't we just stick to prose?
05:20Prose?
05:21That sounds even fancier.
05:23Prose is just plain old ordinary writing, like a newspaper.
05:26Prose is writing that's a lot like the way you normally talk.
05:29Exactly.
05:30What's wrong with prose?
05:31No rhythm, no rhyme, nothing fancy.
05:34But it's boring.
05:36If you say, I don't know, birds of a feather flock together,
05:39that's way more interesting than saying people who have similar interests
05:42tend to hang around each other.
05:44Hey, uh, this ant says he has one.
05:46The ant has a fulm?
05:48Polem?
05:49Yeah.
05:50It goes...
05:51Yogurt mountain!
05:52Forward march!
05:53Oh no!
05:54Giant foot!
05:55I can't believe it.
06:01A dog and an ant can write poems, but I can't.
06:05I'm telling you, that dog Billy Collins has set the bar too high.
06:10Poor T.D.
06:13He could really use some help with his poem.
06:15He's really struggling.
06:17He is?
06:18The real Billy Collins?
06:20Well, where is he appearing?
06:21The pet store?
06:22Really?
06:23Well, maybe he can help us.
06:26Come on!
06:27Next, I'd like to read a poem called Dog.
06:33I can hear him out in the kitchen,
06:35his lapping the night's only music,
06:37head bowed over a water bowl,
06:39like an illustration in a book for boys.
06:42He enters the room...
06:43Excuse me?
06:44Do you know when Billy Collins is gonna read?
06:46That is Billy Collins.
06:48Oh, fuck, thanks.
06:49Then he makes three circles around himself,
06:52flattening his ancient memory of tall grass
06:55before dropping his weight with a sigh on the floor.
06:59Uh, this is the spot where he will spend the night,
07:05his ears listening for the syllable of his name,
07:08his tongue hidden in his...
07:09Excuse me!
07:10Excuse me, everyone!
07:11Sorry to interject, but I have an announcement!
07:14This man is an imposter!
07:16Seek him!
07:17Get him!
07:18Hurry!
07:19He's...
07:20He's an imposter!
07:22An imposter...
07:24An imposter is someone who's pretending to be someone else.
07:28And this man is pretending to be Billy Collins,
07:31so call the police!
07:41Alright, where is he?
07:42Where's the real Billy Collins?
07:44Uh...
07:45I bet you'd have him chained up to a porch somewhere!
07:47Poor Billy Collins!
07:53Uh-huh!
07:54Prepare for justice, fake Billy Collins!
07:57You're making a mistake!
07:58If he's Billy Collins, where's his tail?
08:03What's that?
08:05Uh-oh...
08:07You mean...
08:08he's not an imposter?
08:10Wow!
08:11I'm a blockhead.
08:12Oh, no!
08:13Uh, my head isn't actually shaped like a block.
08:15I meant that metaphorically.
08:17Ruff!
08:18Oh, a metaphor.
08:19It's, uh...
08:20Yeah...
08:24Complicated.
08:25I'll explain later.
08:26Right now, I have some apologizing to do.
08:30Excuse me!
08:31What?
08:33It's my fault.
08:34I just couldn't believe any human could know so much about how a dog feels.
08:39Coming from you, Martha, that's pretty high praise.
08:41How can you understand a dog like that?
08:43Well, I guess poetry is really about using your imagination.
08:46A lot of times poets use poetry to imagine what it's like to be another person, or creature, or even nature itself.
08:55Hmm...
08:56Well, I have a friend who has lots of imagination, but he's struggling.
09:00He could use some advice.
09:02It's no use.
09:03I started a hundred poems.
09:04Listen.
09:05The...
09:06The...
09:07What?
09:08That's as far as I got.
09:09The...
09:10It's totally boring already.
09:11A...
09:12Ugh.
09:13Buy motor oil.
09:14Hey, that's good.
09:15Oh, wait, no.
09:16That's Dad's.
09:17That's Dad's.
09:18How can I write a great poem if I can't even write one good word?
09:20Hey, writing can be hard, TD, and poetry is even harder than writing.
09:24Tell me about it.
09:25But, you know, the point isn't really to impress teachers, or even to try to write the best poem
09:29ever.
09:30You're gonna tell me it's to have fun.
09:32Exactly.
09:33But, I'm not having any fun.
09:34Right now, I'd rather be sick as a dog.
09:36Or an actual dog.
09:37Dogs aren't allowed in school.
09:38All they can have to be sick as a dog.
09:39But I could have to say, oh, wait, no, that's Dad's.
09:41How can I write a great poem if I can't even write one good word?
09:44Hey, writing can be hard, TD.
09:46And poetry is even harder than writing.
09:48Tell me about it.
09:49But, you know, the point isn't really to impress teachers, or even to try to write the best poem ever.
09:52You're gonna tell me it's to have fun.
09:53Exactly.
09:54aren't allowed in school.
09:55Well, why not write about that?
09:58Being a dog sounds like something
09:59you feel strongly about.
10:01It could make a really terrific poem.
10:03It could?
10:08I woke up this morning, curled up in a chair.
10:12I yawned and jumped down, ran a foot through my hair.
10:15I clicked across the floor on four furry paws.
10:18Hang on a minute, was that really my schnoz?
10:22Was it always so long, so cold, and so wet?
10:24Was my face extra hairy?
10:26But there was no time to fret.
10:28I heard a clock strike.
10:29Late for school, dang nabbit.
10:31I hightailed it downstairs like I was chasing a rabbit.
10:34I zoomed across yards and leapt over fences.
10:38Things seemed oddly heightened, even my senses.
10:42Got to school in three minutes flat.
10:44It would have been sooner if it weren't for that cat.
10:46Then a voice cried, hold on, stop on the double.
10:50Even with a C in spelling, I could tell this spelt trouble.
10:53Don't you know dogs aren't allowed in this school?
10:56Wow!
10:57I said, really?
10:59How awesome, how cool.
11:00I turned and zipped out before he yelled, stay.
11:04I raced down the block as free as a stray.
11:07Then, all of a sudden, crash, crash, boom.
11:10The sky sucked me and everyone else into this totally weird
11:12wormhole kind of thing.
11:14Suddenly, we were all cavemen in an alternate reality.
11:18We all screamed, help.
11:20P.S. I wasn't a dog anymore.
11:22And then we found a television, and we went through it.
11:26The end.
11:28That was The Sadness of Not Being a Dog by T.D.
11:31Kennelly, with special assistance from Billy Collins,
11:34former poet laureate of the United States.
11:37A B?
11:41I don't get it.
11:42We even had the end right at the end of the poem,
11:45and it rhymed and everything.
11:46I guess Miss Klusky didn't like that her poem
11:49ran out of poem halfway through.
11:52But hey, did you have fun?
11:54Eh, I don't know, I guess.
11:56Well, as the poet said, that's the really important thing.
12:00What poet?
12:01You.
12:02Oh, right.
12:03Come on, cheer up.
12:05I'll buy you a yogurt.
12:07Hey!
12:07Hey, you guys!
12:08I just heard something weird from one of the other dogs.
12:11Have you ever heard of Walt Whitman?
12:13A poet?
12:14I love Walt Whitman.
12:15Turns out he was a giant, fluffy English sheepdog.
12:19They say he liked to chase ducks,
12:20and he would write a poem whenever you scratched his belly.
12:23Cool!
12:24Wanna throw sticks?
12:25Great!
12:31A B?
12:32I still don't believe it.
12:34I'm home.
12:35I guess I've learned my lesson.
12:37No more writing poems on my own.
12:39Hey, got anything for me?
12:41A poem?
12:42Great.
12:44Forgetfulness.
12:45Hmm.
12:46Well, if you say so.
12:48Thanks, Billy.
12:49Good boy.
12:51Similes and metaphors are colorful ways of comparing things.
12:54I'm as hungry as a wolf.
12:56Good simile.
12:57Huh?
12:57A simile is when you compare two things by using like or as.
13:01OK.
13:02Ask me how I'm like a bear.
13:05A metaphor is when you compare things without saying like or as.
13:08For instance, if you say, I'm an early bird, or TD's idea is half-baked.
13:13Or if you say, I have a beef with you, you're not actually talking about meat.
13:19Oh, but I am.
13:20I'm talking about meat.
13:22This is no metaphor, Helen.
13:23This is dinner time.
13:24Oh, you're right.
13:26Time is flying.
13:27That's a metaphor, right?
13:28Because time doesn't actually have wings and all.
13:30Right.
13:31Martha, you're a funge.
13:33Getting fed around here is a trial.
13:42Eight.
13:43Yes.
13:44One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight.
13:46Hey, you know why they call them board games?
13:49Because they're boring.
13:51Shh.
13:53Your turn.
13:55Come on, dice.
13:57Five.
13:58Yes.
13:59One, two, three, four.
14:01Ugh.
14:02Stuck in the mud.
14:04My turn.
14:06Two.
14:07Freestyle.
14:08Yes.
14:09What kind of trick is your truck supposed to do?
14:11Uh, I have to go to the bathroom.
14:13You read it for me.
14:19I have to go again.
14:20Here.
14:25Here.
14:27Again?
14:28You notice how Milo ran to the bathroom whenever he landed on Freestyle?
14:36Oh, maybe it was too exciting.
14:37I knew a dog who had that problem.
14:39Hmph.
14:40I'd hate to see what he does if he wins.
14:42Hang on.
14:43What if it's not the excitement?
14:45What do you mean?
14:47I wonder if Milo was just hiding in the bathroom so he wouldn't have to read the Freestyle cards.
14:52What if Milo hides in the bathroom because it's a struggle for him to read?
14:57Struggle?
14:58Struggle?
14:59When you struggle with something, you try really hard to do it, but it isn't easy.
15:03Like you're struggling to get that stick away from Skits.
15:06Hmm, looks like I lost the struggle.
15:10So, you're saying Milo can't read?
15:13Not exactly.
15:14I've seen him reading books before and we've talked about stuff we've read, but he is shy.
15:19Maybe he's just a little apprehensive about reading in front of other people.
15:23He shouldn't be nervous about reading in front of us.
15:26Let's go tell him that.
15:27I think that'd embarrass him even more.
15:29Wow.
15:30If only there was some way to help the guy.
15:33Boing!
15:34Boing!
15:35There is!
15:36I can be Milo's reading buddy.
15:38My reading whatie?
15:39A reading buddy.
15:40It's someone who helps you read.
15:42I can read.
15:43I just get nervous reading in front of other people.
15:46I mess up a lot.
15:47You just need to practice so you're less apprehensive about reading out loud.
15:51I'm not apprehensive.
15:52I just don't want to do it because I'm a little nervous about what will happen if I try.
15:56Like people will laugh.
15:58That's apprehensive!
15:59That's exactly what apprehensive means.
16:01If you don't want to do something because you're worried something bad will happen.
16:05And that's why a reading buddy is so great!
16:08See?
16:09It says right there on the poster.
16:11Reading buddies help you develop confidence and fluency with reading.
16:14No need to be embarrassed.
16:15I know just how you feel.
16:16Honest.
16:17When I was a little kid, it was a struggle for me to read out loud too.
16:21But then my dad hooked me up with a reading buddy.
16:24And look at me now!
16:25I'm a reading machine!
16:27Granny's pickle people cause panic in Poughkeepsie.
16:30Half price possum in a sack!
16:32Hurry!
16:33Supplies are hungry!
16:34Vote for Carolina!
16:35Vote for Tiffany!
16:36Amount of money T.D.
16:38Cannelly owes on his overdue books?
16:41$47?
16:42Ah!
16:43Dive!
16:44Dive!
16:45Dive!
16:50You sign up for the reading buddy program.
16:52Pick out a book.
16:53Poems or prose, your choice.
16:55And I'll meet you here tomorrow.
17:00You owe the library $47?
17:02T.D.
17:03I know, I know.
17:05You didn't lose the books, did you?
17:07Oh no, they're not lost.
17:08I know exactly where they are.
17:10Where?
17:11In my room.
17:15Oh.
17:16Then, why'd you tell Milo you'd meet him at the library?
17:20Won't the librarian catch you?
17:22Not to worry.
17:23I know just how to get around her.
17:25Look, I've got it all worked out.
17:28First, I hide behind the dumpster by the library's back door.
17:32At exactly 1.22, the janitor will empty the trash.
17:36While he's getting busy with the bags, I'll get busy with my feet.
17:40Once I'm in, I hide in the boys' room.
17:42Until the assistant librarian comes by with a book cart of precisely 1.25.
17:47I hitch a ride on the book cart to the kids' reading room.
17:50Roll behind a bookshelf.
17:52Hop off.
17:53Monkey up the radiator pipe.
17:55Swing ninja style across the ceiling.
17:57I'll reach the other side of the room.
17:59Drop to the reading table where I told Milo to meet me.
18:02At 1.30 on the dot.
18:04Thanks to a huge potted plant, the librarian will never even know him there.
18:10Bing, bang, boom.
18:11I'll get Milo reading and no one will be the wiser.
18:21Right on time.
18:23I'll get to the chair for help.
18:24Let's go.
18:25Let's go, guys.
18:26Let's go.
18:27I'll get to the chair for help.
18:28Oh, man.
18:29Ew, you stink.
18:30Ah!
18:31Oh.
18:32Ooh!
18:33Oh!
18:34Oh!
18:35Oh!
18:36Uh!
18:37Uh!
18:38Oh!
18:39A?
18:40Oh!
18:41Ooh!
18:42Uh!
18:44Ah!
18:45Ah!
18:46T.D., you now owe 47.25.
19:04See, this is much better.
19:14Who wants to be inside on a day like today?
19:17I can still smell you.
19:19It'll be fine.
19:20Let's get reading, reading buddy.
19:22What did you pick?
19:23Firehouse Freddy, Blue Mangoes.
19:26Oh man, I love that book.
19:29Did I ever tell you about the time Truman
19:31just wouldn't eat ice cream?
19:33It was so funny.
19:35So, we totally faked the last page of the book
19:38just to get Alice off Truman's back.
19:41Oh wow, look at the time.
19:42We gotta meet Helena and Truman and tell them
19:44all about your first reading buddy reading.
19:47So, how'd it go?
19:49Ew!
19:51Aw, what is that heavenly scent?
19:53Oh, sorry.
19:55Do you think Milo is any more fluent?
19:57Why would you want Milo to get the flu?
20:00He can't get better at reading if he's sick.
20:02Not flu, fluent.
20:04When you're fluent at reading, it means you read really smoothly.
20:08Yeah, so smoothly it sounds like you're talking.
20:11What?
20:13That's awful.
20:14What?
20:15Lily says Milo didn't do any reading.
20:18She says they had to listen to TD talking the whole time.
20:22TD?
20:23Sorry.
20:24Milo, you need a new reading buddy.
20:29And I've got the perfect person.
20:33Good phonetics is the key to fluency in reading.
20:37Let's pronounce all the hard words first.
20:39Mm-ang-o.
20:42Mm-ang-o.
20:43Mm-ang-o.
20:45Mm-ang-o.
20:46Mm-ang-o.
20:49You don't know what you're missing.
20:54I could have made you fluent.
20:56I'm sorry, Truman, but you make me even more nervous.
21:00So, who else could we get to be Milo's reading buddy?
21:04Oh, Lily, that is perfect.
21:08Lily says she saw a TV show where a dog was a reading buddy.
21:13She says dogs are excellent reading buddies.
21:15We're not judgmental because dogs can't read.
21:18We won't correct you.
21:19We just listen.
21:20Plus, we love hearing poems like blue mangoes.
21:23So then you could be my reading buddy?
21:25I thought you'd never ask.
21:31Blue mangoes.
21:32Whoa!
21:33I see you, you shifty good-for-nothing tree rat.
21:37Don't think I don't.
21:39Ruh!
21:40Ruh!
21:41Sorry.
21:42Where were we?
21:43Nicholas Mello had just stepped outside.
21:49The postman!
21:50Hi!
21:51Hi!
21:52You got any mail for us?
21:53How about some mail-order doggy biscuits?
21:55Hm?
21:56It smells like you were at Cisco's house and Leon's and Bert's.
22:00How are they doing?
22:01Blue mangoes.
22:04Blue mangoes.
22:06Urge Genghis McGee.
22:09Won't you please try one?
22:12They're fresh and they're free.
22:14I wish someone would come down your street with some blue mangoes.
22:19I'm pretty sure I'd like them.
22:21I ate a piece of blue bread once.
22:23Made me really sick.
22:24But I'd still eat one again.
22:25In fact, I think I know where to find some blue bread now.
22:30Hmm.
22:31I'm never gonna find a good reading buddy.
22:37You...
22:38You want to be my reading buddy?
22:40Okay, but I'm not very fluent.
22:43Nicholas Mello had just stepped outside when a strange little fellow appeared by his side.
22:56Hello!
22:58Martha!
22:59I am so disappointed in you!
23:01What did I do?
23:02Dig in the garbage?
23:03No!
23:04Dig in the garden?
23:05No!
23:06Chew the furniture?
23:07No!
23:08Interrupt and interject all during Milo's reading buddy session?
23:11Yes?
23:12Well, I may have interrupted, but I did not interject!
23:16Martha, when you...
23:17How could you say I interjected?
23:19Well, if you'll let me...
23:20I never interject!
23:22But you...
23:23It's against my nature to interject!
23:25Martha!
23:26What?
23:27You're doing it right now!
23:28Doing what?
23:30Interjecting!
23:31I am?
23:32Yes!
23:33When you interject, it means you start talking when someone else is trying to talk so they
23:36can't finish what they were saying.
23:37Or in this case, reading.
23:39Oh.
23:40I guess I did interject.
23:42That's what I...
23:43I couldn't help it!
23:44I struggled to be quiet, but he was reading about food!
23:47And you know how I love food!
23:49Excuse the interjection.
23:51It's okay.
23:52Maybe I can be Milo's reading buddy.
23:54And with that, poor Nick, with a look of pure dread, took a teeny tiny scoop.
24:01Then suddenly said, oh look, a rock!
24:05It's falling from the sky!
24:07Genghis looked up and saw it from the corner of his eye.
24:11He's reading!
24:12And he's so fluent!
24:13Shh!
24:14I want to hear how this ends!
24:16That rock was falling so fast and so quick.
24:19With a thud it landed, and squished poor Nick.
24:22The end.
24:24That's the end?
24:26No wonder I like prose better than poetry!
24:29That is not a happy ending!
24:31No wonder I ate the last page!
24:33Phooey!
24:34You want me to read it again?
24:37Yes!
24:38Only this time, read Helen's ending!
24:41It's much better!
24:42No one gets squished!
24:43And there's eating involved!
24:45Blue Mangoes!
24:49Are you nervous about reading?
24:52What's nervous?
24:53Nervous means you're worried about something, or a little scared.
24:57For instance, Truman is nervous about getting on boats.
25:00And Helen is nervous about going in haunted houses.
25:03Wouldn't be!
25:04I'm nervous about bats!
25:05No you're not!
25:06You just don't like them!
25:07I'm telling you!
25:08The bat makes me apprehensive!
25:09And nervous!
25:10And scared!
25:11What if I give you a treat afterwards?
25:12Okay!
25:13I'm in!
25:14And T.D. is nervous about running into the librarian!
25:16But you shouldn't be nervous about reading out loud!
25:18The only way to get better is to practice!
25:21And T.D. is nervous about running into the librarian!
25:26But you shouldn't be nervous about reading out loud!
25:29The only way to get better is to practice!
25:32Did you catch all the words in today's presentation?
25:38Here's a reiteration!
25:39Prose is writing that's a lot like the way you normally talk!
25:42When you interject, it means you start talking when someone else is trying to talk, so they
25:46can't finish what they were saying!
25:47When you're fluent at reading, it means you read really smoothly!
25:51How quickly the time flies by!
25:53But alas, it's time to say...
25:55So long!
25:56T.D.
25:57Bye!
25:58Bye!
25:59To dig up some more fun words and games, visit PBSKids.org or check out your local library for the Martha Speaks books!
26:06Martha Speaks Books!
26:07Doberimizi!
26:08This is so fun!
26:09I hope you are hearing them all!
26:11And you get that, as you'llhuh!
26:13Bye!
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26:20Bye!
26:21Bye!
26:22Bye!
26:23Bye!
26:24Here you go!
26:25Bye!
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