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Pbs: Super Why!
Empower students on a reading adventure with this collection of interactive literacy games. Superpower your literacy lessons with these videos, interactives, and activities.
eSpark Learning
E Spark Learning: How to Retell a Story Instructional Video (1.Rl, Quest 3)
Learn how to retell a story by using the five finger approach. This video uses the story "The Tortoise and the Hare" as an example. [3:33]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Super Why!: Little Miss Muffet
In this Super WHY! episode, students learn how to treat a friend in the story of "Little Miss Muffet". Students also follow the alphabet, practice spelling, and use the power of reading to change a story. Students follow along as Red...
British Council
Learn English Kids: The Lucky Envelope
After reading along and listening to this story, you can print off activities that check your comprehension. Practice story sequencing and other comprehension skills and write a message.
eSpark Learning
E Spark Learning: Beginning, Middle, End k.rl.3
This eSpark video outlines a new learning quest that will help students master Common Core State Standard K.RL.3: With prompting and support, identify characters, settings, and major events in a story. This video is only the beginning of...
PBS
Pbs: Piggley's Storyteller Warehouse
In this episode of Piggley's Storyteller Warehouse, the host shares the basic building blocks of all stories: Who? What? Where? The host then sets the characters' names, the conflict, and the setting to the tune of a rap song.
Jack Hartmann
Jack Hartmann: Parts of a Story
Story retelling is a critical skill for reading comprehension. Sing along with Jack and increase your reading comprehension and story retelling skills. Learn about the parts of a story or elements of a story. [2:38]
Curated Video
Parts of a Story Song Little Songs for Language Arts
This song helps children learn the typical structure of most stories by giving examples in a fun and easy to memorize call and response format! In addition to teaching the concepts of "beginning," "middle," and "end." It also teaches the...
Curated Video
Youtube: Storytelling Tips With Karrie Korroch
A children's librarian explains 5 things you can do to prepare for telling a story. [5:10]
Curated Video
Youtube: Vodcast Retelling a Story
This video explains 4 things that a good reader considers when retelling a story. [4:29]
PBS
Pbs: Rounding Up the Rhymes
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, the teacher reads text to identify pairs of rhyming words within the story.
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Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 3
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to set a purpose then listen to see if you can find the solution.
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Pbs: How Do We Know What the Character Is Feeling
This video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates how to identify how the character feels in a story.
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Pbs: Setting a Purpose for Reading Story Map, Part 2
In this video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, students are asked to identify the story elements, specifically the problem in the story.
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Pbs: Story Retelling With Aac: Strategies for Students With Cognitive Disabilities
Video, effective for engaging students with significant cognitive disabilities, demonstrates students use of augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) devices to retell a story.
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Pbs Learning Media: Tea Mology: Helping and Learning From Mistakes
TEAMology characters Harper and Paco lend a little assistance at the local library! Learning to read and learning from mistakes is packaged with fun. [4:57]
Other
Andrea Hollingworth: Identifying Characters, Setting, and Main Events in a Story
This video teaches the standard for Kindergarten, Reading: Literature
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Pbs Learning Media: Literacy Strategies
This is a collection of 23 short videos of literacy strategies for PreK-3
Curated Video
Youtube: How to Retell a Story for Kids
This short video explains how to retell a fiction story by telling the characters, setting, and major events from beginning to end! [1:48]