Instructional Video10:19
National Gallery of Art

Teaching Critical Thinking through Art , 3.5: Using Beginning/Middle/End to Prompt Writing with Art

3rd - 11th
In this lesson demonstration video, language arts teacher Kristen Kullberg at Sacred Heart School, Washington, DC, first leads a What Makes You Say That? routine to encourage her middle school students to reason and speculate about...
Instructional Video5:49
Curated Video

Beginning, Middle, and End

3rd - Higher Ed
Using the story “A Lucky Day,” Miss Palomine explains that a good story has a strong beginning, middle, and end. She uses a graphic organizer to represent the beginning, middle, and end of the story.
Instructional Video5:16
Curated Video

Ending of a Story

K - 8th
"Ending of a Story" models understanding of story structure by explaining how to identify what happens at the end of a story.
Instructional Video5:36
Communication Coach Alex Lyon

How to Open a Presentation with a Story

Higher Ed
Let's learn how to open a presentation with a story (Part 3 of 5). In a speech, stories are a great way to grab your audience's attention. Everybody loves a well-told story. Many people, however, don't have enough confidence in their...
Instructional Video5:49
Curated Video

Comprehension Story Elements: Retelling

K - 3rd
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....
Instructional Video2:05
Teaching Without Frills

How to Create a Story Map for Kids - Planning Your Narrative Writing

3rd - 5th
In this video, you'll learn how to create a story map to help plan your narrative writing! Your story map will include characters, setting, and plot events in the beginning, middle, and end of your story.
Instructional Video24:02
Curated Video

Sequencing and making a story mountain: 'The Magic Porridge Pot'

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Pupil outcome: I can sequence a story and use it to retell. Key learning points: - Retelling a story helps to remember the main events and use storytelling language, such as 'Once upon a time,' - Story mountains map out the beginning,...
Instructional Video25:55
Curated Video

Sequencing and making a story mountain: 'The Three Billy Goats Gruff'

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Pupil outcome: I can sequence a story and use it to retell. Key learning points: - Retelling a story helps us to remember main events in a story and use storytelling language, such as 'Once upon a time'. - Story mountains sequence the...
Instructional Video5:27
Curated Video

Organizing Ideas and Telling Your Story

K - 5th
In this video lesson, students learn how to organize their ideas when writing to a prompt. They are guided through the process of imagining their story as a movie in their mind's eye, saying it out step by step, and jotting down the...
Instructional Video6:31
Mr. Beat

Slavery in the 13 Colonies (Story Time with Mr. Beat)

6th - 12th
Once upon a time, African nations fought each other, as nations tend to do throughout history. After a victory, an African nation would often enslave many of the enemies it had captured. Most of these enslaved Africans, from various...
Instructional Video2:06
Makematic

Late arrivals

K - 5th
Addressing time in stories helps children understand how sequence impacts the narrative of any story – personal, real or imagined. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will create illustrations that reflect the beginning, middle and end...
Instructional Video7:39
Clarendon Learning

What is the Main Idea? | Main Idea for Kids | Finding the Main Idea in Books and Stories

K - 6th
When a child is learning to read it can be difficult to identify the main idea. In this video we help your kid learn all about the main idea in stories and books. We will learn how to identify what the main idea of a story or book is,...
Instructional Video17:02
Curated Video

The theme of happiness in 'Anna Hibiscus' Song'

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Pupil outcome: I can link a story to my own feelings and experiences. Key learning points: - Recalling events in the story helps to summarise the most important parts - The actions of a character are what the character does or says -...
Instructional Video4:58
Curated Video

Summary

K - 8th
Mr. Griot discusses the skill of summarizing a story by identifying important events from the beginning, middle, and end.
Instructional Video4:04
Curated Video

Using Boxes and Bullets to Plan Your Narrative Writing

K - 5th
In this video, the teacher provides a step-by-step guide on how to organize thoughts when writing to a prompt. Using boxes and bullets, the teacher demonstrates how to plan a narrative by clearly outlining the beginning, middle, and end...
Instructional Video4:43
Curated Video

Organizing Your Ideas: Step-by-Step Guide to Writing a Prompt

K - 5th
In this video, the teacher explains how to organize ideas when writing to a prompt. The lesson covers the five steps of the writing process: understanding the question, brainstorming ideas, making a plan, writing sentences, and revising....
Instructional Video5:16
Curated Video

Organizing Ideas for Writing: Step-by-Step Storytelling

K - 5th
This video lesson teaches students how to organize their ideas when writing to a prompt. It guides them through the process of imagining their story, saying it step-by-step in their mind, and jotting down the beginning, middle, and end....
Instructional Video8:09
Mr. Beat

Why Do Videos Go Viral?

6th - 12th
The eight principles: #8 A video is more likely to go viral if it is deliberately marketed to the appropriate demographic. In other words, if ads are strategically placed to reach a lot of people guaranteed to already like the video, it...
Instructional Video2:09
Curated Video

5 Reading Comprehension Tips For Kids

Pre-K - Higher Ed
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...
Instructional Video2:27
Makematic

Cause and Effect

K - 5th
Looking closely at art helps us imagine a story and predict how it could change. In this activity, you will use a piece of art as a story starter – then predict what could happen next.
Instructional Video3:56
Jack Rackam

What did Confucius Actually Do? | The Life & Times of Confucius

12th - Higher Ed
Love weird and wacky history? So Confucianism is sort of a big deal, it's been the guiding principle of one of the largest empires on the planet for some 2000 years, but when was the last time you heard anything about Confucius himself?...
Instructional Video5:21
English Heritage

How to Make Cheese Seftons - The Victorian Way

K - 9th
Today Mrs Crocombe shows us how to make cheese seftons - delightful savoury treats designed for the end of a meal, for the dessert course, or even sometimes after it as an alternative option for those who prefer a savoury palate...
Instructional Video7:57
NativLang

What "Ancient" Chinese Sounded Like - and how we know

9th - 11th
How China's scholars uncovered its ancient imperial language and founded a linguistic tradition that's uniquely separate from the West. Subscribe for language: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang Become my...
Instructional Video9:38
NativLang

How Interpreters Helped Topple the Aztec Empire

9th - 11th
Travel to old Mexico. Uncover the linguistics behind the legend of La Malinche and the conquest of Montezuma's Aztecs! Subscribe for language: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=NativLang Follow my progress or become a...