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How to Write a Research Paper for Kids Episode 1: Brainstorming Topics
This video series will teach you how to write a research paper or report. Each episode leads you through each step of the writing process. In this video, you will learn how to brainstorm research topic ideas!
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ADVANCED LESSON PART 2: How to Reduce the Adverb Clause
In today’s video we’ll continue with our lesson on Reduced Adverb or Adverbial Clauses. This is an advanced lesson so students will need to be familiar with the present and past participle as well as the perfect aspect of verbs. This...
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Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 1
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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Language Function and Construction: Using Noun and Noun Phrases, Part 2
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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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Listening Actively
This lesson provides opportunity for English learners to practice listening to information and gaining insight by asking wh- questions (“who”, “what”, “when”, “where” and “why”).
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Evaluating Language Choices
This standard-based video teaches English learners how to use specific language and word choices to either entertain, persuade, inform or give information.
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Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 3
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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Foundational Literacy: Medial Vowel Substitution
This lesson focuses on identifying vowel sounds in the middle of a word.
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Using Specific Language for Writing and Speaking, Part 2
This lesson demonstrates to English Learners how the use of specific words such as apple and banana vs. just fruit can make a sentence more descriptive. It also reviews the use of prefixes such as un-, re- and mis-.
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Analyzing Language Choices, Part 2
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.
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Exchanging Information and Ideas, Part 1
This lesson on collaborative listening and speaking teaches English learners how to engage in conversational exchanges and express ideas on familiar topics by asking and answering yes-no and wh- questions (who, what, when, where why) and...
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Reading and Viewing Closely, Part 1
This video teaches English learners how to breaking down presentations and / or passages to pinpoint the main idea, details, similarities and differences to gain deeper understanding. It also shows how to identify the concept of cause...
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Writing
This lesson shows beginner level English learners how to create paragraphs using sentences on the same topic or idea and how to organize sentences in the paragraph by using “first”, “next”, “then”, “after”,” that” and “finally”.
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Language Function and Construction: Using Verbs and Verb Phrases, Part 5
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 3
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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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Exchanging Information and Ideas, Part 2
This lesson on collaborative listening and speaking teaches English learners how to engage in conversational exchanges and express ideas on familiar topics by asking and answering yes-no and wh- questions (who, what, when, where why) and...
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Presenting, Part 1
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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Foundational Literacy: Letter Sounds, Part 2
This video helps English learners recognize the short and long sound for each vowel.
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Foundational Literacy: First and Last Sounds, Part 2
This video helps English learners identify the first sound and last sound in a word.
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Adapting Language Choices (Register), Part 4
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 1
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 3
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: Reading and Viewing Closely, Part 2
This video teaches English learners how to breaking down presentations and / or passages to pinpoint the main idea, details, similarities and differences to gain deeper understanding. It also shows how to identify the concept of cause...
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Collaborative Listening and Speaking: Adapting Language Choices (Register), Part 1
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.