Teaching Without Frills
Story Elements for Kids: What Is a Setting?
Setting is an important story element! In this video, you'll learn the definition of setting and how to determine the setting in a story.
Teaching Without Frills
How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids Episode 3: Planning Your Story
In this video, you will learn how to make a plan for your imaginative narrative using a story map! We will plan the characters, setting, and events, including the problem and solution.
Teaching Without Frills
How to Create a Story Map for Kids - Planning Your Narrative Writing
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.
Teaching Without Frills
How To Retell a Story For Kids
In this video, you will learn how to retell a fiction story by describing the characters, setting, and major events from beginning to end!
Curated Video
Comprehension Story Elements: SETTING
This video teaches what the setting is and how to identify it from simple text to more complex text. It teaches how the authors sometimes tells us the setting and sometimes they show it, where we have to infer and use clues to figure out...
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
#6 Elements of a Story--Characters, Setting, Plot & Theme (Reading Comprehension)
In this video, I teach you the elements of a story. I will cover characters, setting, plot and theme. You will understand the who of the story-the characters, the where and when of the story-the setting, the different plots of the plot,...
Curated Video
Simple Spanish Story for Kids: El oso y sus amigos from Spanish Playground
This story with basic Spanish for kids can be incorporated into Spanish lessons in a preschool, school and homeschool setting. The Spanish vocabulary in the story is excellent for beginners. The Spanish words include common verbs and...
Curated Video
Blackbeard the Pirate for Kids | Edward Teach
Set sail to learn about Blackbeard, one of the most feared pirates in history! His real name was Edward Teach, and he sailed the Atlantic Ocean and the Caribbean Sea in the early 1700s during the Golden Age of Piracy. In this video,...
Wonderscape
Discovering Adjectives in a Story
This video encourages viewers to identify and understand the role of adjectives in a story about a cricket and an ant. It highlights various adjectives, including descriptive words about characters, settings, and emotions, demonstrating...
TED Talks
TED: Success stories from Kenya's first makerspace | Kamau Gachigi
Africa needs engineers, but its engineering students often end up working at auditing firms and banks. Why? Kamau Gachigi suspects it's because they don't have the spaces and materials needed to test their ideas and start businesses. To...
Curated Video
Autistic Basketball Champ Teaches Kids Hope With Hoops
How would you feel if a team of medical specialists reviewed your background and declared, at the age of 5, that because you had Autism, you would never be successful academically, that you would likely not graduate from high school much...
Science360
AI avatars of historical scientists teach the nature of the universe – The Beamer
The Beamer, a small business funded by the National Science Foundation, is developing an interactive learning platform to teach science to children aged 8 to 13. The Beamer’s platform weaves science into a story about atoms and the...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
M.W. Penn - Teaching Math Concepts to Young Children
MW Penn writes stories and poetry for young children to introduce them to the seminal ideas of mathematics. Her interests, math and literature, are not separate worlds. Children love stories and they enjoy the patterns of verse;...
Mr. Beat
1920s American Culture (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Once upon a time, a horrible war known as World War 1 devastated the planet. Immediately after the war, a lot of people in the United States were passionate about various causes, some good, some not so much. While women had finally won...
Curated Video
#7 Asking Costa's Questions about a Story or Article (Reading Comprehension)
In this video, I teach you Costa's Levels of Questions. I talk about how to write Level 1 questions, right there questions. I talk about how to write Level 2 questions, think and search questions. I talk about how to write Level 3...
Curated Video
Perseverance: The Key to Achieving Your Goals
In this video, Bolivar the Beaver and Dylan teach us about the importance of perseverance. Bolivar shares his experiences as a hardworking beaver building dams, while Dylan learns to play the guitar and achieve his dream of being in a...
Curated Video
Cyber Role Models - Teaching Kids To Be Better People, Online And Off
“Is it true? Is it kind? Is it you?” Do you think to ask yourself these three key questions before posting anything online? Dave Anderson and Blake Fleischacker, the co-founders of My Life Online, think you should. They would like to...
Curated Video
How To Make A Cornhole Set With An 'Are You Kidding Sock'!
Sebastian Martinez, kid CEO of "Are You Kidding Socks", is back with a new DIY project that enables anyone to construct the pieces of a traditional family game that is sure to keep everyone active, challenged, and entertained while...
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Yascha Mounk - The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
Yascha Mounk is a writer and academic known for his work on the crisis of democracy and the defense of philosophically liberal values. Born in Germany to Polish parents, Yascha received his BA in History from Trinity College Cambridge...
Curated Video
Simple Spanish for Kids: Easy Card Trick Story Los Tres Ladrones
This easy story using a card trick and basic Spanish for kids can be incorporated into lessons in a preschool, school and homeschool setting. The Spanish vocabulary included is simple and useful. The key Spanish words include noche,...
Curated Video
Joey Travolta's Film Summer Camp Teaches Young Adults With Special Needs About Film & Kindness
Inclusion Films, started by veteran filmmaker Joey Travolta (brother of actor John Travolta) in 2007, is a teaching studio for aspiring filmmakers with developmental disabilities. Students build sets, edit footage, act in projects, and...
Curated Video
Fiction Nonfiction Genre: Story Elements
This video focuses on the two main genre of books: fiction and nonfiction. Kids learn aspects of each type of book and then practice naming whether a book is fiction or nonfiction. Kids also learn about realistic fiction.
Teaching Without Frills
How to Write an Imaginative Narrative for Kids Episode 4: Writing an Introduction
In this video, you will learn how to write an introduction (or exposition) for an imaginative narrative or fantasy story! We will learn how to hook the reader, introduce the characters and setting, and set the mood for the story.