Instructional Video0:59
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Foundational Literacy: Letter Knowledge, Part 1

K - 5th
Instructs newcomers and beginner level English learners about understanding and recognizing the 26 letters of the alphabet, their order and sounds
Instructional Video1:29
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Offering Opinions, Negotiating, and Persuading, Part 1

K - 5th
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners covers a variety of collaborative listening and speaking topics: Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and persuading others in communicative exchanges.
Instructional Video1:32
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Offering Opinions, Negotiating, and Persuading, Part 3

K - 5th
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners covers a variety of collaborative listening and speaking topics: Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and persuading others in communicative exchanges.
Instructional Video3:04
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Foundational Literacy: Letter Knowledge, Part 2

K - 5th
Instructs newcomers and beginner level English learners about understanding and recognizing the 26 letters of the alphabet, their order and sounds
Instructional Video0:54
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Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 2

K - 5th
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...
Instructional Video1:59
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Justifying and Arguing

K - 5th
This lesson for beginner English learners covers: Offering our opinion or letting others know how we think and feel; Identifying key phrases used in this context such as " I think", "I like", "I believe". Using modals such as “can”,...
Instructional Video1:14
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Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 4

K - 5th
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...
Instructional Video1:11
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Adapting Language Choices (Register), Part 2

K - 5th
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners teaches how to use different registers based on who we are speaking with such as a teacher or adult vs. friends or family.
Instructional Video0:25
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Offering Opinions, Negotiating, and Persuading, Part 2

K - 5th
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners covers a variety of collaborative listening and speaking topics: Offering and justifying opinions, negotiating with and persuading others in communicative exchanges.
Instructional Video0:58
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Adapting Language Choices (Register), Part 3

K - 5th
This standards-based lesson for beginner level English learners teaches how to use different registers based on who we are speaking with such as a teacher or adult vs. friends or family.
Instructional Video0:45
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Foundational Literacy: Blending and Segmenting Sounds, Part 2

K - 5th
This lesson shows English learners how to blend sounds together to make a word, as well as to take apart the sounds of a word.
Instructional Video0:57
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Foundational Literacy: Blending and Segmenting Sounds, Part 4

K - 5th
This lesson shows English learners how to blend sounds together to make a word, as well as to take apart the sounds of a word.
Instructional Video1:10
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Interacting with Written English, Part 2

K - 5th
This video lesson for beginner English learners teaches how to communicate using written words and sentences.
Instructional Video1:56
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Foundational Literacy: Syntax, Part 1

K - 5th
This lesson on basic sentence syntax helps English learners understand how the order of words matters to be able to put together a sentence using a subject, adjective, verb and direct object.
Instructional Video1:00
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Language Function and Construction: Personal Pronouns and Connecting Words, Part 3

K - 5th
This standards-based ELD lesson for beginner English learners focuses on applying knowledge of familiar language resources for referring in order to make texts more cohesive (e.g., how pronouns refer back to nouns in text); Applying...
Instructional Video1:58
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Language Function and Construction: Modifying to Add Details

K - 5th
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...
Instructional Video0:57
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Foundational Literacy: First and Last Sounds, Part 1

K - 5th
This video helps English learners identify the first sound and last sound in a word.
Instructional Video1:22
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Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 4

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD video covers how to use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g, past, present, future, simple progressive) appropriate to the text type and discipline (e.g., simple past and...
Instructional Video1:53
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Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 2

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD video covers how to use a variety of verbs in different tenses (e.g, past, present, future, simple progressive) appropriate to the text type and discipline (e.g., simple past and...
Instructional Video2:24
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Language Function and Construction: Connecting Ideas

K - 5th
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";...
Instructional Video1:13
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Language Function and Construction: Personal Pronouns and Connecting Words, Part 1

K - 5th
This standards-based ELD lesson for beginner English learners focuses on applying knowledge of familiar language resources for referring in order to make texts more cohesive (e.g., how pronouns refer back to nouns in text); Applying...
Instructional Video2:16
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Foundational Literacy: Upper and Lower Case Letters

K - 5th
This lesson helps newcomer and beginner level English learners recognize both upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet.
Instructional Video2:21
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Presenting, Part 2

K - 5th
This lesson for beginner English learners focuses on formal and informal presentation skills: Providing information to friends, using eye contact, presenting a familiar topic, informal or formal presentation language based on the setting.
Instructional Video5:55
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Greenie Grows a Garden

Pre-K - 3rd
Hi Greenie! ¡Hola Verdecito! Join Greenie in his garden, as he first plants, then tends to, and finally harvests yummy strawberries. Presented in English and Spanish, this sweet bilingual story introduces kids to common gardening words,...