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Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 4
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson focuses on condensing ideas in simple ways (e.g., by compounding verbs, adding prepositional phrases, or through simple embedded clause) to create precise and detailed...
KERA
Connecting Through Art at the Border
An interactive art installation with giant lights and booming loudspeakers is helping people communicate across the U.S.-Mexico border. Visitors to the exhibit on both sides of the border are invited to send searchlights into the sky and...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Modifying to Add Details
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson shows how expanding sentences with simple adverbials (e.g., adverbs, adverb phrases, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) about...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Connecting Ideas
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson talks about how to combine clauses in a few basic ways to make connections between ideas and to join ideas (e.g. creating compound sentences using "and", "but", "so";...
Institute for New Economic Thinking
Kimberly Chong: What Do Management Consultants Do?
Most of us probably think of management consultancy as a technocratic function, helping companies fix internal problems in order to become more productive. But Institute for New Economic Thinking grantee Kimberley Chong thinks...
PBS
An Ode to the Romance Novel
Love it or hate it, the romance novel is the highest grossing literary genre. Its history is long and winding (like your favorite romance novel), and romance novels are full of tropes reflected upon its history. It has been the subject...
Englishing
What are Myths?
What is a myth, legend and folktale?. In this video, Mr. P. will find the answers to that question. He will also provide clear explanations on the difference between creation and heroic myths. This lesson is designed for intermediate...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 2
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Using Noun and Noun Phrases, Part 1
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson explains how to expand noun phrases (e.g., adding a sensory adjective to a noun) in order to enrich the meaning of sentences and add details about ideas, people and things.
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 3
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 4
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Language Tree
Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 1
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Curated Video
Creating Strong Endings: How to Leave the Audience with Strong Feelings
In this video lesson, the teacher guides students on how to create strong endings for their narratives by effectively conveying their emotions. The teacher explains the five steps of the writing process and provides a specific example of...
Curated Video
Creating Strong Endings: Showcasing Your Feelings in Writing
In this video, the teacher discusses the importance of creating a strong ending in writing to leave a good impression on the audience. They guide students through the steps of revising their work, focusing on how they feel about the...
PBS
Jane Eyre and First-Person Narrative
An episode from the PBS Great American Read series focuses on Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre and how the first-person narrative impacted two very modern women.
PBS
The Catcher in the Rye and First-Person Narrative
Testimonials for The Catcher in the Rye demonstrate the power of J.D. Salinger's story of a young man who wants to protect innocent children from the phonies in the adult world. Part of the Great American Read series, speakers urge...
PBS
American Masters Gatsby Chases the American Dream
What's so great about Gatsby? A teaching guide asks readers to consider whether Gatsby's quest represents the embodiment of the American Dream or a reflection of the American nightmare, a green light, or a valley of ashes.
PBS
The Pain of History and Beloved
Readers of Toni Morrison's Beloved share their reasons for why the painful and powerful narrative should be on the list of books for the Great American Read program.
Lit2Go
The Wind and the Sun
How powerful is kindness? Aesop's 133-word fable "The Wind and the Sun" is about a bet that is won by kindness between the wind and the sun to see who can make a traveler take off his jacket. Following the reading that is part of a...
Lit2Go
The Sick Lion
How should a disliked leader be treated when they're down? Aesop's "The Sick Lion", a fable about a dying lion being mistreated by his subjects, teaches readers about cowardice. The writing activity that has pupils produce an alternative...
Lit2Go
The Salt Merchant and His Donkey
Is choosing an easy path always the best decision? Aesop's fable "The Salt Merchant and His Donkey" challenges individuals to consider the question as they read about a donkey that makes choices to lessen his load. The writing activity...
Lit2Go
The Raven and the Swan
Turn ravens into swans, academically speaking, with a fable by Aesop and a narrative writing activity. The story a raven that is killed by his desire for white feathers is available to all readers as a short audio recording. After...
Lit2Go
The Man and the Wood
Pupils read about trees that give their means of destruction away to a man in Aesop's fable "The Man and the Wood." The activity after reading challenges scholars to create a narrative with a new ending to the fable.
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Organize Ideas Chronologically for a Narrative
In this lesson, you will learn how to tell your story step-by-step by getting the memory in your head and thinking "What happened first, then next, then next." [4:43]