Instructional Video2:58
Wonderscape

Mastering Basic Parts of Speech: The Foundations of Language

K - 5th
This video provides a comprehensive overview of the essential parts of speech: nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. It explains how these elements combine to form correct and complete sentences, enhancing communication. The...
Instructional Video1:37
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 1

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson focuses on condensing ideas in simple ways (e.g., by compounding verbs, adding prepositional phrases, or through simple embedded clause) to create precise and detailed...
Instructional Video0:48
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Using Noun and Noun Phrases, Part 2

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson explains how to expand noun phrases (e.g., adding a sensory adjective to a noun) in order to enrich the meaning of sentences and add details about ideas, people and things.
Instructional Video2:29
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 3

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson focuses on condensing ideas in simple ways (e.g., by compounding verbs, adding prepositional phrases, or through simple embedded clause) to create precise and detailed...
Instructional Video0:54
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 2

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson focuses on condensing ideas in simple ways (e.g., by compounding verbs, adding prepositional phrases, or through simple embedded clause) to create precise and detailed...
Instructional Video1:14
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Condensing Ideas, Part 4

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson focuses on condensing ideas in simple ways (e.g., by compounding verbs, adding prepositional phrases, or through simple embedded clause) to create precise and detailed...
Instructional Video1:58
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Modifying to Add Details

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson shows how expanding sentences with simple adverbials (e.g., adverbs, adverb phrases, prepositional phrases) to provide details (e.g., time, manner, place, cause) about...
Instructional Video2:24
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Connecting Ideas

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson talks about how to combine clauses in a few basic ways to make connections between ideas and to join ideas (e.g. creating compound sentences using "and", "but", "so";...
Instructional Video3:18
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 2

K - 5th
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Instructional Video0:54
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Using Noun and Noun Phrases, Part 1

K - 5th
For beginner English learners, this standards-based ELD lesson explains how to expand noun phrases (e.g., adding a sensory adjective to a noun) in order to enrich the meaning of sentences and add details about ideas, people and things.
Instructional Video3:57
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 3

K - 5th
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Instructional Video0:39
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 4

K - 5th
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Instructional Video1:28
Language Tree

Language Function and Construction: Text Structure, Part 1

K - 5th
This lesson for beginner English learners teaches how different text types are organized to express ideas (e.g., how narratives are organized sequentially); comprehending texts and writing brief arguments, informative/ explanatory texts...
Instructional Video13:41
Wonderscape

Understanding Sentence Types: Simple, Compound, and Complex

K - 5th
This program meets Common Core third grade language standards as it introduces and explores simple, compound and complex sentences. It provides clear examples and explanations of each type, including the components of a sentence and how...