Laura Candler
ABC’s of Me!
Young authors share all about themselves with this printable autobiography resource. Including 26 different sentence frames, one focusing on each letter of the alphabet, students write about everything from an adventure they...
British Council
Learn English Kids: Abc Zoo
Listen to and read along with this animated story as the ABC Zoo finds a home for its newest addition, the zorilla.
eSpark Learning
E Spark Learning: How to Retell a Story Instructional Video (1.Rl, Quest 3)
Learn how to retell a story by using the five finger approach. This video uses the story "The Tortoise and the Hare" as an example. [3:33]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything
In this Kindergarten through 2nd grade video, students listen carefully as their teacher reads the story "The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything" by Linda Williams. Students listen for key verbs such as clomp and wiggle...
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: Magic Spell
Listen to and read along with this animated story about two boys who try to make a magic potion.
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: Teddy's Adventure
Follow Teddy's adventures as he travels to Kumiko's school in this animated read-along. Includes audio narration.
British Council
Learn English Kids: The Lucky Envelope
After reading along and listening to this story, you can print off activities that check your comprehension. Practice story sequencing and other comprehension skills and write a message.
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Grade 1: Compound Words
This TurtleDiary interactive video lesson [0:47] features information about compound words. Games and worksheets are included to supplement this video lesson about compound words.
Turtle Diary
Turtle Diary: Parts of Sentence
This video moves from explaining what a complete sentence is, to explaining subjects and predicates.
Other
You Tube: Flocabulary Five Things (Elements of a Short Story)
Learn about five story elements: plot, character, conflict, theme and setting in this engaging music video. [3:42]
Imagine Learning Classroom
Learn Zillion: Revise a Narrative Story by Rereading the Draft
In this lesson, you will learn how to revise a narrative reading response by rereading and asking yourself, 'What details can I add to make my story stronger and are there any details I can remove?' Login gives access to a slideshow as...
Curated Video
Youtube: Ending Sounds
Learn to read phonics ending sounds. Kids easily learn the rules for reading sounds at the ends of words with catchy songs. They also practice reading words and sentences in this video. [10:06]
Jack Hartmann
Jack Hartmann: Parts of a Story
Story retelling is a critical skill for reading comprehension. Sing along with Jack and increase your reading comprehension and story retelling skills. Learn about the parts of a story or elements of a story. [2:38]
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: Superhero High
Read along and listen to an animated story about a typical day of classes at a special school called Superhero High. [2:23]
British Council
British Council: Learn English Kids: Ratty Robs a Bank
Read and listen to a story about Ratty and his gang robbing a bank. Spycat is called in look for clues to try to solve the crime.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: The Yellow Gorilla
The Yellow Gorilla is a read aloud story for young children about a gorilla who ate bananas so much he turned yellow.
Charlotte Mecklenburg Library
Story Place: Morris's Special Day
This book is about a boy looking for Morris, the mouse. He encounters several different animals and tells what they are in both English and Spanish.
Other
National Film Board of Canada: Science Please! Part 2
Animated short films explain, with humor, the science of lightning, magnets, sound, the telephone, and related scientific fundamentals. [15:02]
Education Development Center
Tv411: Tune in to Learning: Word Up Compound Words
Poet Stephen Coleman explains compound words and phrases in this video. He also discusses prefixes, suffixes, and hyphenated words as well as compounds.
Curated Video
Youtube: How to Retell a Story for Kids
This short video explains how to retell a fiction story by telling the characters, setting, and major events from beginning to end! [1:48]