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.

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.

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....

Matthew Schneps is a researcher at Harvard University with a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also happens to have dyslexia, so reading has always been a challenge for him. That...

This video teaches comprehension at the sentence level. It teaches kids to notice pronouns, multiple-meaning words, and punctuation as they read sentences. <br/>

Reading books can be fun, but there’s so much more to discover beneath the surface. In this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we’ll use our background knowledge and story evidence to make inferences about E.B. White’s novel,...

New ReviewThis video give instruction and practice with finding the problem and solution with simple and more complex texts.

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.

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.

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

Part 2 gives practice to how to infer using clues from the book and what's in our brain. <b<br/>r/>

PART 1 INFERENCES:    • Making Inferences {C<br/>omprehension: Inf...  

"Understanding stories involves listening and visualising. In this activity, children aged 3-7 will create sketches based on a story they have heard or read.



Children will then make connections between their story sketches and...

Wordsift is a FREE website that allows you to breakdown the vocabulary of any article or text. I have been using Wordsift for years, so I will walk you through all the secret and hidden features. You are able to see the most common words...

In this video, we will cover vocabulary implementation helpers.
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This clip is from the chapter "Deep learning: Recurrent Neural Networks with Python" of the series "Data Science and Machine Learning (Theory and Projects) A to...

Matthew Schneps is a researcher at Harvard University with a doctorate in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He also happens to have dyslexia, so reading has always been a challenge for him. That is, until he...

This video explains the signs and symptoms of dyslexia, a learning disability that affects a person's oral and written language skills. It covers difficulties with speech, reading, numbers, following instructions, and writing. The video...

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.

Fairy tales aren’t just “once upon a time…” and “happily ever after.” They can connect us to people across the world! In our final episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we compare and contrast different versions of “Little Red Riding...

How do characters make a story? In this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we’ll investigate the traits of characters from “King and the Dragonflies” by Kacen Callender and uncover the ways they relate to each other. Topic:...

Where do you find a theme? Deep in the characters, under the setting, entwined in the plot? In this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we travel through the universe with the characters in “A Wrinkle in Time” to discover its...

If you want to learn about a new topic, where do you start? In this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we synthesize information from two nonfiction books about a woman with an eye for insects: Maria Merian. Topic: Synthesizing...

Roses are red, violets are blue… What on Earth CAN’T a poem do? In this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we dive into the poems that make up Thanhhà Lại’s verse novel, “Inside Out and Back Again” and the figurative language that...

If you want to learn about a new topic, where do you start? In this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we synthesize information from two nonfiction books about a woman with an eye for insects: Maria...

How do characters make a story? In this episode of Crash Course Kids Literature, we’ll investigate the traits of characters from “King and the Dragonflies” by Kacen Callender and uncover the ways they relate to each...