SciShow
This Is Your Brain on Language | Compilation
You have a lot of choices if you’re looking to learn a new language, from Spanish to coding, or even whistling! And there are some broad similarities and patterns in the ways our brains process these different forms of communication.
SciShow
You Read More Slowly As You Get Older — Here's Why
Researchers have noticed a decline in reading ability starting in your 40s. And learning more about why this happens might help us tell the difference between healthy aging and Alzheimer’s disease.
TED Talks
Alexander Tsiaras: Conception to birth -- visualized
Image-maker Alexander Tsiaras shares a powerful medical visualization, showing human development from conception to birth and beyond. (Some graphic images.)
Crash Course
Reading Assignments: Crash Course Study Skills
Leaving the bookstore at the beginning of the semester you're probably wondering how the heck you're going to get through all of that reading. Today we're explaining how much of that reading you really need to do and the best strategies...
Curated Video
More Practice Making Inferences {Comprehension: Inferring}
Part 2 gives practice to how to infer using clues from the book and what's in our brain. PART 1 INFERENCES: • Making Inferences {Comprehension: Inf...
Curated Video
Supercharge Scala Future | FP-Tower - For Comprehension
This video demonstrates the comprehension part. This clip is from the chapter "Build Your Own IO" of the series "Supercharge Scala Future | FP-Tower".This section focuses on building your own IO (Input/Output).
Curated Video
Can Computers Really Talk? Or Are They Faking It?
New advancements in technology are making it harder than ever to tell the difference between a computer and a human speaker... but what's going on under the hood? Is it really "language," or just a digital illusion?
Curated Video
Summarizing {Comprehension}
Summarizing or saying the summary of a text is an important comprehension practice for kids to understand what they read.
Curated Video
5 Reading Comprehension Tips For Kids
Calling all parents! Want to help improve your child's reading skills? Check out this educational video specifically designed to help kids become better readers! In this video, Meggan shares and explains 5 Reading Comprehension Tips For...
Curated Video
Three Ways to Train IELTS Listening Skills - IELTS Energy Podcast 1311
What can you do if the hosts of your favorite podcasts speak way too fast? You'll learn the answer today and we'll share 3 ways to train your brain for the highest IELTS Listening scores!
Curated Video
How to Avoid Average IELTS Listening Scores - IELTS Energy Podcast 1221
Find out today how the average IELTS candidate scored last year on IELTS Listening, including candidates who are native English speakers. Spoiler alert: even natives aren't perfect! Learn how to rise above these low averages on your next...
Curated Video
Octavia Butler
First popularized as a genre of literature in the 1920s, for decades science fiction was dominated by white male authors. That is until Octavia Butler, an African American woman, rewrote the script.
Curated Video
Theme, Setting & Plot
Theme, Setting & Plot explains how the structure of the text contributes to its theme, setting, or plot.
Curated Video
All About Homophones {Vocabulary Building}
This video teaches what a homophone is, shares many examples, and gives kids a chance to try to name the correct homophone. Learning homophones helps build vocabulary which grows comprehension.
Curated Video
Sentence Comprehension: CONJUNCTIONS {and, but, so}
Comprehension is complex for kids. This focuses on sentence comprehension with the basic conjunctions and, but, and so. Kids will learn what they mean and practice using them in the correct sentence.
Curated Video
Reading Comprehension for Kids
This video discusses the steps to sentence comprehension and keys to understand what we read. Kids should work to keep their brain in the book, reread aloud at confusing parts, ask questions, and predict.
Curated Video
Sentence Comprehension: Pronouns, Punctuation, & Multiple-meaning Words
Comprehension is complex for kids. This focuses on sentence comprehension with pronouns, punctuation, and multiple meaning words. Kids will learn how noticing these in sentences can grow their comprehension.
Curated Video
I Recall: Part 3
“I Recall: Part 3” discusses parts of a fable, reads “The Ant and the Grasshopper,” and answers questions about the fable.
Curated Video
What’s the Big Idea?
“What’s the Big Idea?” discusses the main idea and supporting details of a text.
Curated Video
I Recall: Part 2
“I Recall: Part 2” reviews characters, setting, and events and asks questions about these story elements after reading the story “The Clubhouse.”
Curated Video
I Recall: Part 1
“I Recall: Part 1” discusses characters, setting, and events and applies these story elements to answering questions about the fiction story “Learning to Fly.”
Curated Video
4 Most Common PREFIXES {Vocabulary}
Prefixes are letters or groups of letters at the beginning of words. It's important to know prefixes to be able to understand the meaning of words. Four of the most common prefixes are dis-, in-, re-, and un-. This video teaches about...
Curated Video
Comprehension Story Elements: Retelling
This video teaches how to retell a story. It shares how to first tell the setting/characters, then the problem, and finally the solution. It teaches how using three finger retell (beginning, middle, and end) helps keep us on track....
Curated Video
Comprehension Story Elements: CHARACTERS & TRAITS
This video teaches what a character is and how to identify outside and inside character traits. It teaches how the author shows who the character is based on what the character DOES and SAYS. Knowing the characters helps us understand...