This video explains components such as brokers, exchanges, queues, and connections, and how they work together to enable reliable and scalable messaging. It also touches upon topics such as message persistence and clustering in...

Mr. Griot shares a folktale and points out the characteristics of a folktale. He then explains the importance of the main lesson learned from folktales.

Mr. Griot describes how to revise a nonfiction expository writing essay.

Mr. Griot explains where to locate sources for research. He demonstrates taking notes, creating a graphic organizer, and writing a rough draft about baseball.

Mr. Griot describes how to write a nonfiction expository writing essay.

Mr. Griot describes the elements of a good book report. Then he creates a graphic organizer to help begin a book report about Latasha and the Little Red Tornado.

Mr. Griot introduces the sonnets of William Shakespeare by reading Sonnet 30 and discussing the meaning of the text as well as the theme of the poem.

Mr. Griot discusses the importance of using an outline to organize thoughts and information.He models how to write an outline using letters and numbers.

Mr. Griot demonstrates how to use story text as clues for making predictions and identifying main idea, supporting details, and story elements.

Mr. Griot discusses the skill of summarizing a story by identifying important events from the beginning, middle, and end.

Summarizing or saying the summary of a text is an important comprehension practice for kids to understand what they read.

A video in which “Technical Information” discusses the challenge of comprehending technical writing and how technical writing can be better understood by restating the main idea.

Did you know you need different strategies for each question type on the IELTS reading exam? Today we share the strategy for one of the most difficult question types and let you know where to find the rest!

You've definitely heard us talk about topic sentences for Task 2. They are MUST for a 7 or higher. BUT, you also need to think about this for Task 1! Listen up today for a very important IELTS lesson.

If you are like most IELTS students, you could use more model essays! Today we share a band 9 Task 2 essay about sports and music talent, and you'll hear the details on why it is so high scoring, so you can improve your own future essays.

Theme explores the concept of theme by defining examples of themes commonly found in literature.

Narrative Writing explains the purpose of narrative writing and lists examples of focused, specific topics for narrative writing.

"Poetry Summary" summarizes a poem by using the strategy of taking annotated notes.

Expository Writing explains the purpose of expository writing and lists examples of focused, specific topics for expository writing.

In this lesson, you can learn how to read and summarise a text.

Summarising a text is a vital skill for your English reading. If you can’t make a short, clear summary of the main ideas of a text, then you almost...

The video “Identify Informative Texts” describes the characteristics of an informative text.

Supporting the Main Idea –Informational analyzes informational text by showing how paraphrasing and quotes support the main idea.

Supporting the Main Idea Literature analyzes literature by showing how examples of paraphrasing and quotes support the main idea about the text.

Central Idea of Informational Text identifies and explains details in an informational text that support a given theme or central idea.