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Foundational Literacy: Letter Knowledge, Part 1
Instructs newcomers and beginner level English learners about understanding and recognizing the 26 letters of the alphabet, their order and sounds
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Offering Opinions, Negotiating, and Persuading, Part 1
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.
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Offering Opinions, Negotiating, and Persuading, Part 3
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.
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Foundational Literacy: Letter Knowledge, Part 2
Instructs newcomers and beginner level English learners about understanding and recognizing the 26 letters of the alphabet, their order and sounds
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Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 2
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...
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Justifying and Arguing
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”,...
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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...
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Adapting Language Choices (Register), Part 2
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.
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Offering Opinions, Negotiating, and Persuading, Part 2
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.
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Adapting Language Choices (Register), Part 3
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.
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Foundational Literacy: Blending and Segmenting Sounds, Part 2
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.
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Foundational Literacy: Blending and Segmenting Sounds, Part 4
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.
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Interacting with Written English, Part 2
This video lesson for beginner English learners teaches how to communicate using written words and sentences.
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Foundational Literacy: Syntax, Part 1
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.
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Language Function and Construction: Personal Pronouns and Connecting Words, Part 3
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...
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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...
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Foundational Literacy: First and Last Sounds, Part 1
This video helps English learners identify the first sound and last sound in a word.
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Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 4
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...
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Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 2
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...
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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";...
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Language Function and Construction: Personal Pronouns and Connecting Words, Part 1
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...
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Foundational Literacy: Upper and Lower Case Letters
This lesson helps newcomer and beginner level English learners recognize both upper- and lower-case letters of the alphabet.
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Presenting, Part 2
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.
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Greenie Grows a Garden
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,...