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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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Language Function and Construction: Personal Pronouns and Connecting Words, Part 2
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: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 1
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: 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...
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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.
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Foundational Literacy: Letter Sounds, Part 1
This video lesson teaches how to identify and make consonant and vowel letter sounds.
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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...
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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...
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Foundational Literacy: Rhyming
This lesson familiarizes English learners with rhyming words (words that have the same middle and end sounds).
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Foundational Literacy: Syllables
This lesson helps English learners create syllables by combining chunks of sounds made up of vowels and consonants.
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Interacting with Written English, Part 1
This video lesson for beginner English learners teaches how to communicate using written words and sentences.
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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...
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Analyzing Language Choices, Part 1
This video for beginner English learners covers choosing language or words to provide more detail and better understanding of the situation when speaking or writing.